The Victory Meeting Atlantic City Session American Medical Association, Seventieth Annual Session, Atlantic City, June 9 13, 1919
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THE VICTORY MEETING ATLANTIC CITY SESSION AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, SEVENTIETH ANNUAL SESSION, ATLANTIC CITY, JUNE 9 13, 1919 CANAL ZONE NEVADA OFFICIAL CALL William . Dahl, Reno. COLORADO L. H. McKinnie, Colorado Springs NEW HAMPSHIRE TO THE OFFICERS, FELLOWS AND MEMBERS OF J. N. Hall, Denver. Robert J. Graves, Concord. THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CONNECTICUT NEW JERSEY E. New Haven. The seventieth annual session of the American Medical J. Lane, Luther M. Halsey, Williamstown. Edward Guion, Atlantic City. Association will be held in Atlantic City, N. J., June 9-13, 1919. DELAWARE George H. McFadden, Paterson. P. W. The House of will convene at 10 a. Tomlinson, Wilmington. Delegates m., Monday, NEW MEXICO 9. In the House the of the various June representation DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA H. A. Miller, Clovis. constituent associations for 1919 is as follows : G. Wythe Cook, Washington. NEW YORK Alabama . 3 New . 1 FLORIDA Hampshire James W. Fleming, Brooklyn. 1 New . 3 Arizona. Jersey John S. Helms, Tampa. Dwight H. Murray, Syracuse. Arkansas. 2 New Mexico. 1 Frederic E. New York. 3 Sondern, California . New York .11 GEORGIA George W. Kosmak, New York. Colorado . 2 North Carolina . 2 S. R. Roberts, Atlanta. Arthur J. Bedell, Albany. H. Connecticut . 2 North Dakota . 1 H. Martin, Savannah. Delaware . 1 Ohio. 6 NORTH CAROLINA 1 HAWAII District of Columbia. Oklahoma . 2 H. A. Royster, Raleigh. 1 . C. P. Asheville. Florida . Oregon 1 A. N. Sinclair, Honolulu. Ambler, Georgia . 2 Pennsylvania . 9 Idaho . 1 Rhode Island 1 IDAHO NORTH DAKOTA New Illinois . 8 South Carolina. 1 Charles MacLachlan, Rock- ILLINOIS ford. 3 Dakota .. 1 Indiana . South R. 3 J. Coultas, Mattoon. OHIO Iowa . Tennessee. 2 T. D. Scottville. 3 Doan, Kansas . Texas . S E. B. Danville. 3 Coolley, OKLAHOMA Kentucky . Utah. 1 C. E. Humiston, Chicago. 2 L. Oklahoma Louisiana . Vermont . 1 Hektoen, Chicago. LeRoy Long, City. 1 Charles R. Hume, Anadarko. Maine . Virginia . 3 C. W. Leigh, Chicago. 2 Maryland . Washington . 2 5 INDIANA OREGON Massachusetts . West Virginia . 2 Charles Stoltz, South Bend. 4 Wisconsin . 3 Michigan A. E. Bulson, Jr., Fort Wayne. PENNSYLVANIA 2 . Minnesota . Wyoming R. 1. Joseph Eastman, Indianapolis. W. F. Bacon, York. Mississippi . Canal Zone. G. R. S. Pottsville. 5 Corson, Missouri . Hawaii . IOWA H. B. Gibby, Wilkes-Barre. Montana . 1 Philippine Islands . John C. Des Moines. George G. Harman, Huntingdon Rockafellow, Wilmer Nebraska . 2 Porto Rico . Voldeng, Woodward. Krusen, Philadelphia. Nevada . 1 Edward B. Heckel, Pittsburgh. ISTHMIAN CANAL ZONE John D. McLean, Philadelphia. Medical David N. Dennis, Erie. The fifteen scientific sections of the American R. U. Runyan, Panama. John M. the Med¬ Baldy, Philadelphia. Association, the Medical Department of the Army, KANSAS Health Service are PHILIPPINE ISLANDS ical Corps of the Navy and the Public Charles S. Huffman, Topeka. entitled to one delegate each. PORTO RICO The general meeting, which constitutes the opening exer¬ KENTUCKY Carl L. Wheeler, Lexington. Jorge del Toro, Santurce. cises of the Scientific Assembly of the Association, will be W. W. Clinton. Richmond, RHODE ISLAND held at 8: 30 p. m., Tuesday, June 10. The various sections LOUISIANA of the Scientic Assembly will meet Wednesday, June 11. at F. T. Rogers, Providence. 9 a. m. and at 2 p. m., and subsequently, according to their MAINE SOUTH CAROLINA respective programs. MARYLAND Edgar A. Hines, Seneca. The will be from 8: 30 a. m. Registration Department open Randolph Winslow, Baltimore. SOUTH DAKOTA until S : 30 p. m., on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs¬ Thomas S. Cullen, Baltimore. m. TENNESSEE day, June 9, 10, 11 and 12, and from 8:30 a. to 12 noon, MASSACHUSETTS on E. T. Newell, Chattanooga. Friday, June 13. Arthur Dean President. J. B. Blake, Boston. Bevan, H. G. Stetson, Greenfield. TEXAS Hubert Work, Speaker, House of Delegates. L. F. Woodward, Worcester. I. C. Chase, Fort Worth. Alexander R. F. B. Lund, Boston. M. L. Graves, Galveston. Craig, Secretary. E. F. Cody, New Bedford. UTAH MICHIGAN Joseph R. Morrell, Ogden. THE A. W. Hornbogen, Marquette. MEMBERS OF HOUSE OF DELEGATES F. C. Warnshuis, Grand Rapids. VERMONT A Roster the Guy Connor, Detroit. Preliminary of Legislative Body of the J. G. Brook, Grandvi lie. F. T. Ridder, Woodstock. American Medical Association VIRGINIA MINNESOTA The list of members of the House of Delegates for the W. E. Anderson, Farmville. George D. Head, Minneapolis. Southgate Norfolk. session is incomplete, as a number of the state associations W. H. Magie, Duluth. Leigh, are WASHINGTON yet to hold their meetings at which delegates will be MISSISSIPPI elected. The is a list of the holdover and H. H. McCarthey, Spokane. following delegates Willis Walley, Jackson. D. E. Pt. of the newly elected members who have reported to The McGillivray, Angeles. MISSOURI Journal in time to be included : WEST VIRGINIA W. J. Ferguson, Sedalia. Frank LeMoyne Hupp, Wheeling. A R. McComas, Sturgeon. Chester R. STATE DELEGATES Franklin E. Murphy, Kansas City. Ogden, Clarksburg. ALABAMA ARKANSAS WISCONSIN MONTANA S. W. Welch, Montgomery. C. P. Meriwether, Little Rock. C. H. Lemon, Milwaukee. S. G. Gay, Selma. Rudolph Horsky, Helena. Horace M. Brown, Milwaukee. CALIFORNIA Rock Sleyster, Wauwatosa. ARIZONA George H. Kress, Los Angeles. NEBRASKA R. G. Strond, Gleason. V. G. Vecki, San Francisco. Joseph M. Aikin, Omaha. WYOMING Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Florida International University Medical Library User on 06/07/2015 DELEGATES FROM THE SECTIONS PATHOLOGY AND PHYSIOL¬ PREVENTIVE MEDICINE AND OGY PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE OF MEDICINE OPHTHALMOLOGY E. R. Le Count, Chicago. W. S. Rankin, Raleigh. George D. Head, Minneapolis. Walter . Lancaster, Boston. GENITO-URINARY DISEASES OTOLOGY STOMATOLOGY LARYNGOLOGY, Eos SURGERY, GENERAL AND AND RHINOLOGY William C. Fisher, New York Granville MacGowan, Angeles. ABDOMINAL George F. Keiper, Lafayette, Ind. ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY Jabez N. Jackson, Kansas City. NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES OF CHILDREN DISEASES John Ridlon, Chicago. Isaac A. OBSTETRICS, GYNECOLOGY Abt, Chicago. Hugh T. Patrick, Chicago. GASTRO-ENTEROLOGY AND AND ABDOMINAL PHARMACOLOGY AND PROCTOLOGY SURGERY THERAPEUTICS DERMATOLOGY William VanValzah Hayes, New F. F. Simpson, Pittsburgh. A. D. Hirschfelder, Minneapolis. George MacKee, New York. York City. The Steel Pier—Opening Meeting, Registration and Exhibits. ATLANTIC CITY THE SUNRISE CITY OF AMERICA Atlantic City, the world's best known health and pleasure come seeking health, rest, appetite and sleep. Sunshine, pure resort, is built on an island of virgin sand i0 miles long air, health and pleasure are Atlantic City's commodities in and from one-fourth to 1 mile in width, over S miles from trade—none others need apply. the shore line of New Jersey, with intervening tide water the boardwalk bays, thoroughfares and salt meadows. Owing to the pecu¬ liar contour of the New Jersey coast, Absecon Island faces Atlantic City's boardwalk is so well known to the world almost directly south, which, gives continuous sunshine to that it needs little comment. This unique structure extends the entire beach front and Boardwalk from sunrise to sunset. 8 miles along the ocean front, 20 to 60 feet wide with its About 90 miles at sea the Gulf Stream tempers the surround¬ pine planks laid on massive concrete pillars, 8 to 10 feet ing waters and heats the cold wintry winds that cross its above the strand. The smooth rolling chair paths and the ever moving path. Surrounded by water that, in winter, is new "herring bone" relaid decking remove the disagreeable many degrees warmer than the cold blasts of the north ; features of the old boardwalk and make walking and roller in summer, with a temperature below the warm winds of chair riding a real pleasure. Except for six pleasure and the interior; and aided by her southerly exposure, Atlantic recreation piers the ocean view from the boardwalk is City's has a climate that is 10 to 15 degrees cooler than unobstructed. A stroll along this structure is equivalent the nearby inland cities in summer and with the same varia¬ to a walk on the deck of an ocean liner with all of its tion of warmth in winter. invigorating salt breezes and stimulus, but lacking in the disagreeable rolling and tossing of the vessel. The city's MOSQUITOES EXTERMINATED side of the boardwalk is lined with metropolitan hotels, The salt meadows in the rear have been so thoroughly stores, amusements, theaters, movies and bathing establish¬ drained and ditched by the Mosquito Commission of New ments. Every nation of the globe is represented by the Jersey that stagnant pools are entirely unknown and the boardwalk merchants who are glad to show and sell Oriental, proverbial New Jersey mosquito is practically a thing of domestic and imported wares and articles of art and trade. the past for Atlantic City. The Anopheles has never been This continued wall of buildings protects the boardwalk seen in Atlantic City, hence malaria is unknown and never from the north winds of winter and the hot land breezes existed here. of summer. The boardwalk is beautifully lighted and on an THE RESORT .SUNSHINE evening stroll or roller chair ride under the scintillating rays The average annual sunshine in Atlantic City is reported of myriads of electric lights almost transform one to the by the United States Weather Bureau at 61 per cent, as con¬ realms of fairyland. Add to this the bewitching beauties of trasted to 50 per cent, in many other places. With a freedom a full moon, shedding its rays on the bosom of the smooth from factory smoke and dust our sunshine is perfectly bright Atlantic, and one forgets the trials and troubles of business and clear and gives an actinic action greatly in excess of cares and lapses into a soliloquy of sentimentalisms. Once the heavily ladened air of the interior where the particles having enjoyed this scene there is a constant longing to of dust and soot absorb and reflect the violet and ultraviolet repeat and repeat, spectral rays.