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the degree of hydrogen-ion concentration, the oxygen Sanatorium, Ahwahnee. This institution is maintained by tension and the value of selective dyes. It is important Merced, Stanislaus and Madera counties for tuberculovs that these because patients. The nurses' home and the vocational building are problems be solved, dependable and among those to be enlarged.-A new hospital, to cost standardized cultural results will be of the greatest approximately $60,000, will be erected at the Paradise Valley National The new will contain value; but until this is smears, cultures Sanatorium, City. hospital accomplished, fifty rooms. and complement fixation should be carried out when¬ ever possible, the limitations of each being borne in CANAL ZONE mind. Institute of Tropical Research.—At a meeting of the executive committee of the Institute for Research in Tropical America, it was decided to concentrate the efforts of tin- institute on the establishment of a research station near the Medical News Gorgas Memorial Institute at Panama. Thomas Barboni", Harvard University, Boston ; H. E. Crampton, representing the New York Academy of Sciences; A. S. Hitchcock, Smith¬ (Physicians will confer a favor by sonian Institution; A. G. Ruthven, University of Michigan, sending for and this department items of news of more or less gen- Witmer Stone, Philadelphia Academy of Science, are ERAL interest: such AS RELATE TO SOCIETY ACTIVITIES, the members of the committee. NEW HOSPITALS, EDUCATION, PUBLIC HEALTH, ETC.) COLORADO Physician's License Revoked.—An official report from the ALABAMA state board of medical examiners states that the license of Dr. B. has been revoked on the Branch Laboratories to Be Established.\p=m-\Branch state James Clymer, Mead, charge of habitual and the use of narcotics laboratories will be established in three cities the state intemperance spirits, and by and on the that he had several board of health. This was made possible by an appropriation stimulants, ground performed from the International Health Board of the Rockefeller criminal abortions. Foundation. Laboratories in Birmingham and Mobile will CONNECTICUT be opened immediately and another later in the Tennessee Valley. The laboratories, cooperating with the municipal Bequest to University.—Under the will of the late William laboratories, will engage in bacteriologic work and diagnosis Sloane, $100,000 has been bequeathed to Yale University, and control of communicable diseases. New Haven, and $10,000 to the Yale Foreign Missionary Society for the Hunan-Yale College of Medicine, Changsha, ALASKA known as Yale in China. Personal.\p=m-\Dr.William A. Borland, Hoonah, who has been DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA taking a graduate course in New York, has returned to Alaska.\p=m-\Dr. George S. Lesher, La Conner, Wash., has Smithsonian Institution.—A meeting of the scientific staff accepted a position with the U. S. Public Health Service at of the institution was held recently to discuss promotion of St. George Island. research. A committee on research was appointed with Dr. Walter H. Merrill, chairman. Mr. Frederick V. Coville, Dr. ARKANSAS Fewkes, Mr. Fowle, Dr. William H. Hough, Mr. Nelson and Mr. Leonard are the other members. The Hospital News.\p=m-\A hospital and bath house were dedicated Stejneger committee will hear on research at Hot Springs, August 30. The buildings were erected reports proposed projects by from various means ttiem a negro fraternal organization at a cost of $200,000. More persons and consider for taking up. than 2,000 delegates from the organization attended the dedi¬ cation ceremonies. Dr. Ellis A. Kendall gave an address.- FLORIDA An ordinance appropriating $300,000 for the completion of Prisoners Aid Malaria Control.—Prisoners from the city the new city hospital at Little Rock was passed recently by stockade in are in out the council. Tampa employed cleaning city dumps city in the antimosquito campaign now being conducted in that CALIFORNIA city. Conference.—The Personal.—Dr. Frederick F. DuPree, Tampa, has been Hospital second annual conference of appointed assistant superintendent of the Arizona State Hos¬ the hospitals of California was held in Pasadena, September pital for the Insane, Phoenix. Dr. DuPree was 5-8. Dr. William E. San was chair¬ formerly Musgrave, Francisco, acting assistant surgeon in the U. S. Public Health Service. man of the conference. Dr. William S. Gramling, Miami, gave an address on "The Public Health Broadcasted.—The health department of the Physics of Radium and Radioactive Substances" before the county of Los Angeles is broadcasting public health lectures Dade County Medical Society, August 17. every two weeks from Station U Y, located at El Monte. Scholarships in Medicine.—Florida has established seven In addition to the regular series, special lectures will be free broadcasted from the El Monte station from time to time. scholarships in the state medical college, one for each congressional district, the governor making the Health appointments. International Exposition.—The field of public and Selections are based on three conditions: (a) the excellence private health will be covered at the International Health of the student's previous class work; (&) the attainment of and Safety Exposition to be held in the Oakland Auditorium, the standard of qualifications required by the medical school, November 17-26. There will be charts and lectures, with and (c) the financial need of the individual. A similar special emphasis on the idea of disease prevention and health number of scholarships is available also in pharmacy. education among children. The exhibit will show how the center central health works from a headquarters surrounded ILLINOIS by the treatment and neighborhood centers and by the centers in the outlying towns of the country. Physician Fined.—It is announced in the Davenport Times that Dr. Prudens Sterck, Moline, arrested several weeks ago Personal.—Dr. James Marion Dillon, El Monte, has been in issued a to erect a twelve-room office to be Davenport on a statutory charge, was fined $200 and costs, permit building, 22. used either for a county health center or for professional August offices. The building will be erected at a cost of $12,000.- Hospital News.—The Holden Hospital, Carbondale, has Dr. John J. Miller, San Jose, has returned from a trip to been appraised with the idea of issuing bonds for new build¬ England, Ireland and France.-Dr. Clarence O. Sapping- ings and improvements. An expenditure of $50,000 is con¬ ton, San Francisco, assistant surgeon, U. S. Public Health templated.-Miss Blanche Easton, Chicago, has succeeded Service, has been appointed to a fellowship in industrial Sidney G. Davidson as superintendent of Rockford Hospital. hygiene at the Harvard School of Public Boston. Health, Dr. Sloan on Health Board.—Dr. Edwin P. Sloan, Bloom- Hospital News.—A new navy hospital, erected at San ington, has been elected secretary of the state advisory health Diego at a cost of $1,000,000 was commissioned, August 24. board to succeed Dr. C. W. Lillie of East St. Louis, who died -Work has been started on an addition to Ahwahnee recently. An effort will be made to place Illinois in the Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a Michigan State University User on 06/11/2015 birth rate area by having stringent laws passed compelling six months.-A physiotherapy department has been installed the registration of all births. at the Charity Hospital under the direction of Miss Marion new brick sanatorium will be erected Poliomyelitis Decreasing.—According to a report of the Bentley.-A two-story department of public health of the Public Health Bureau, at Ponchatoula by the Benevolent Knights of America. Washington, D. C, it is stated that infantile paralysis is on Physicians Resign from Hospital.—Charging that the Rev. the decrease in Illinois. In July and August, 1921, there were J. C. Barr, president of the managers of the Presbyterian a total of 558 cases, and in July and August of this year, Hospital, New Orleans, was interfering with the internal only twelve cases have been reported. affairs of the institution and that he had made the position Medical Examinations at State Fair.—At the state fair of Dr. Henry L. Stickney, superintendent of the hospital, held in Springfield, free physical examinations were made by formerly of Dwight, 111., untenable, Drs. Marcy J. Lyons and experts of the state department of public health, under the Hiram W. Kostmayer, members of the board's advisory com¬ direction of Dr. Isaac D. Rawlings. Blood pressure tests mittee, submitted their resignations to the board of managers, were made and registration cards with height and weight August 27. Dr. Stickney resigned, August 22. The hospital were given out. An annual examination was urged for every board has been requested to oust the Rev. Mr. Barr, as he one. At the Pageant of Progress, in Chicago, more than is an untrained man, unfamiliar with medical affairs, and if an be to 15.000 persons were so examined in a booth in charge of this is not accomplished effort will made close the physicians. Free examinations were made at the Central 'hospital altogether. Mrs. Gamier is at present acting super¬ States Fair at Aurora, and will be conducted at the fair at intendent. Many other members of the staff are preparing Kankakee also. to resign unless the conditions are altered, it is announced. Chicago Former University Professor Dies.—Prof. Alexander Smith, MARYLAND formerly professor of chemistry and director of general and Malaria Outbreak in County.—Malaria has been unusually at physical chemistry the University of Chicago, died recently prevalent in Wicomico County, on the eastern shore of Mary¬ at his home in Edinburgh, Scotland, aged 56. land, the total number of cases reported to the state depart¬ Personal.—Dr. J. Edwin Rhodes has returned to the United ment of health since September 1 being seventeen, eleven of States after a tour of England, Scotland and France.-Dr.