Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — AMERICAN MEDICS MEET. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMERICAN MEDICS MEET.

A - 1 . '. ' - y i Easiness Transacted at Session ir Washington. The final day of the great national convention of physicians in Washington .was, as is usually the case, given up largely to the transaction of routine business. The most important business don'e was the election of officers for the ensuing year and the reading of the annual paper oa State medicine by Dr. H. D. Holton, of Vermont. Dr. Holton’s address dealt generally with some of the problems the State must deal with 1 to protect its citizens from disease. Among the points emphasized was the importance of State boards of health'. He insisted that they should be given ample power and latitude in carrying out what they considered for the best interests of the people. He endorsed heartily the action being taken by the association to secure a national department of public health. He also ad-

vised a uniform and national system of quarantine, and that the quarantine laws should be more stringently enforced and carried out. “Educate the press, and through them the people/’ said Dr. Holton, “to the necessity for the foregoing, sanitary medical reforms. Great amountsof money are spent by the Government in armaments, ironclads and other military works, to keep out foreign invaders; but It would be a good thing if more were spent on keeping out invading diseases. Congress should be made to recognize the importance of sanitary legislation.” Dr. E. 11. Woolsey, of California, made a motion, which was carried, that as much disease was carried by paper money, the section on State medicine at the session next year should inquire fully into this important snbjeet. The list of the new officers of the American Medical Association is as follows: President, Dr. It. Beverly Cole,, of San Francisco, Cal.; first vice-president, Dr. J. J. Chisolm, of Baltimore; second vicepresident, Dr. J,ohn C. Legrand. of Alabama; third vice-president, Dr. Augustus B. Clark, of Massachusetts; fourth vicepresident, Dr. T. P. Sutterwhite, of Kentucky; treasurer, Dr. Henry P. Newman, of Illinois; secretary, Dr. W. B. Atkinson, of Pennsylvania; librarian, Dr. G. E. Wise, of Illinois. Members of the board of trustees, Alonzo Garcelon, of Maine; Dr. T. N. Love, of Missouri, and Dr. .Tames E. Reeves, of TeffneSTsee. The next annual session of the association will be held at Atlanta, Ga.

DR. CHISOLM, Ist Vice President, DR. LE GRAND, 2d Vice President.

DR. NEWMAN. Treasurer. DR. ATKINSON, Secretary.