of the fundamental branches to medicine and surgery would be impressed and time saved. Dr. Bevan in his opening address as chairman even mildly suggested that perhaps the preliminary requirement of a year's study of a modern language might be omitted. The idea being that however valuable the modern language might be to the physician no man ever acquired a really useful reading or speaking knowledge of a language in that length of time. Again it is thought that many subjects generally classed as specialties and taught in the usual incomplete and superficial way should be relegated partly if not wholly to the post-graduate schools. Dr. E. P. Lyon of the University of Minnesota gave an interesting account of his experience in using fourth year students as internes. He began during the war on account of the great difficulty of obtaining a sufficient number of internes and has since adopted it as a regular plan and it seems to work well. It was spoken of as an innovation but carried me back some forty years to the old days of house students at the University of Maryland. Twenty-four students of the next year graduating class on payment of a very moderate amount were given a furnished room with service in a house immediately adjoining the Hospital. The term was for a year -two-thirds of the whole medical course. These students were assigned to duty in the various wards, public and private, and were under the supervision of one resident physician who was superintendent of the hospital and one assistant resident physician. There were a few orderlies and a very few nurses, no trained nurses. To the willing student the duties were various and multiple and combined those now considered as pertaining to the interne, the orderly and the nurse. It was a most valuable experience and I am not aware of any other medical school having had the same system. It was instituted about 1869 and discontinued about 1915. Respectfully submitted, HERBERT HARLAN, Chairman. April 25, 1922. PUBLIC INSTRUCTION COMMITTEE In submitting this report, three of the men on the Committee were heard from. No communication was received from the fourth member. During the past year at Cumberland, the public instruction work has been done to the extent of instructions given by nurses to mothers in maternity cases. A course of nine lectures was given in Cumberland during the campaign against cancer. The committeeman, Dr. E. B. Claybrook, of Cumberland, recommends that further instruction work be given in maternity cases, especially during the prenatal period. In Baltimore, numerous lectures were given in instruction in the way of prevention and control of venereal diseases and propaganda was spread among the various church congregations, fraternal orders and other organizations during the campaign against cancer. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE COMING YEAR An active campaign of instruction should be held by this Society against cancer. It is recommended by this Committee that every county society organize a Committee of Public Instruction and this Committee put into effect propaganda through its members for the instruction of the public in the very early stages of cancer. It seems to appear that, if we are to do anything in the control and lessening of malignant growths, it must now be done through publicity. Surgery seems to have now reached the stage where the surgeon, from the standpoint of surgical technic, etc., can handle the situation to good advantage, but we must educate the people to con sult their family physicians, and in turn the surgeons, much earlier in the beginning of this ailment than is now being done. In regard to smallpox, scarlet fever, diphtheria and typhoid fever, more educational propaganda should be distributed in the schools throughout the state. This, like cancer, should be distributed by physicians organized by the various county societies to do this work. Although much work has been done along educational lines in venereal diseases, little has been accomplished. To begin with, these diseases are not being reported properly by the physicians of the state to the health boards. Without the proper reporting and tabulating of these diseases, we can hope to make but little headway. Syphilis and gonorrhea are fairly well reported by general practitioners, but urologists and syphilographers are violating the law most grossly. Another important step toward instruction in venereal disease is through the public press. 1 am told by newspaper authorities at the present time that they do not wish to publish such words as syphilis and gonorrhea. They, instead, publish the words "social diseases." Many of the infections in early adult life of both gonorrhea and syphilis are due to ignorance. It is recommended that this Society will take steps to meet the newspaper men throughout the state and endeavor to carry on an educational campaign against syphilis and gonorrhea through the public press, it being realized, however, that this instruction in the public press is to be done in a gradual manner. SUMMARY OF REPORT It is felt that headway has been made in the instruction of the public in cancer and the acute infectious diseases with the exception of the venereal diseases. It is also our opinion that little or no headway has been made in public instruction in syphilis and gonorrhea with the possible exception of gonorrheal ophthalmia in the new-born. Respectfully submitted, JOHN F. HOGAN, MIDWIFERY COMMITTEE The Committee has met for organization and is preparing a plan for active work during the year. The local need for the work of such a committee is shown in the facts of maternal deaths in Baltimore from causes connected with childbirth as well as in the record of cases of sore eyes in the new-born found by nurses in the Bureau of Child Hygiene. In 1921, one hundred and eight women died from causes connected with childbirth as against one hundred and thirty-three in 1920. Of the 108 thirty-seven or 34.25 per cent died of puerperal septicemia and 35 or 32.4 per cent of puerperal albuminuria and convulsions. These cases will be studied in order to determine in what proportion of the cases prenatal work was done and in how many cases midwives were in attendance. With reference to sore eyes the facts are as follows so far as the cases found by the nurses of the Bureau of Child Hygiene are concerned: One hundred and ninety cases of sore eyes were visited by nurses of the Bureau, one hundred and eighty-two having been found by them, three reported by nurses of the Babies Milk Fund Association and five reported by midwives. Of the one hundred and ninety cases, ninety-four were delivered by physicians, twenty-six in hospitals and seventy by midwives. There were fifteen cases of gonorrheal ophthalmia among those on the list, seven being physician cases, one a hospital case, and seven midwife cases. Further analysis of the seventy midwife deliveries which developed sore eyes shows that only five were reported to the Health Department although in thirty cases the eyes began to be sore before the child was fourteen days old. Twelve cases were already under treatment by a physician or in a hospital when the first visit of the nurse was made. Assuming that these twelve cases had been reported to physicians or hospitals by the midwives who delivered them, there remain thirteen cases of sore eyes in babies less than two weeks old in which midwives failed to report the condition either to the Health Department or to a physician, as they are required by law to do. Since reform of the situation with reference to midwives and the enforcement of the midwifery law in Baltimore City is evidently needed, it is proposed: First: To secure a correct list of names, addresses and facts as to registration and display of signs of all midwives in the city. Second: To attempt to secure such modification of existing laws in the city or such additions to these laws as shall bring about the limitation of the practice of obstetrics to those qualified. Third: To promote the extension of City and private agencies offering adequate care to needy mothers in childbirth. MARY SHERWOOD, Chairman. REPORT OF THE MEMOIR COMMITTEE Your Memoir Committee reports the following deaths among the members of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty during the past year. The number of deaths of members from Baltimore City reported is seven. The age of the oldest member reported was 90 years. The age of the youngest member reported was 34 years. One member died at the age of 90 years. One member died at the age of 80 years. Three members died at between 60 and 70 years of age. Four members died at between 50 and 60 years of age. Two members died at between 34 and 37 years of age. The membership of the Faculty as reported by Dr. Hiram Woods, Chairman of the Council for 1921 was 741 City members and 507 County members, a total of 1248. The general mortality in percentage was 0.0088. Of the City members the percentage was 0.0009. Of the County members 0.0078. Browne, Bennet Bernard, Died March 10, 1922, at his home, 510 Park Avenue, Baltimore. Dr. Browne was born June 16, 1842, in Queen Anne's County, Maryland. Educated in Loyola College, Baltimore; in C. S. A. (Cavalry) 1861–65; M.D., University of Maryland, 1867; Resident Physician, Bay View Hospital, 1867-68; Attending Physician, Baltimore Special Dispensary; "Established the first woman's hospital and dispensary at Baltimore, May 10, 1876" (pers com'n): one of the Founders of the Woman's Medical Hospital, 1882, Professor of Gynecology, Woman's Medical College, 1882-1906; Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baltimore Polyclinic, 1884; President, Clinical Society of Maryland, 1884-85; President, Gynecological and Obstetrical Society of Baltimore, 1892-93; Member of The Baltimore City Medical Society; Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland since 1875; Member of the American Gynecological Association. Dr. Browne was for many years Member of Council of Committee on Genealogy of the Maryland Historical Society. He was a member of the Sons of the American Revolution; the Society of Colonial Wars; Member of the Order of Runnemede; a Veteran of the Civil War. Dr. Browne, up to a few years of his death, was an extensive medical writer. Dr. John R. Quinan in his "Medical Annals of Baltimore from 1608 to 1880" notes the titles of seventeen papers written by Dr. Browne, in his Prefatory Remarks, Dr. Quinan "acknowledges the cheerful co-operation" of a number of medical men, among the names mentioned is that of Dr. B. B. Browne. Dr. Browne did extensive work in Genealogy, he wrote many historical papers on Early Maryland History. On October 13, 1880, Dr. Browne read a paper before The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the founding of Baltimore entitled "Surgeons of Baltimore and Their Achievements." "The Browne family is descended from a long line of distinguished ancestors, among them Robert Brooks, a master of arts of Wadham College, Oxford, in 1624, who was made commander of a county in Maryland in 1649 and appointed president of the Council and Acting Governor of Maryland by Cromwell's Council in 1652. His wife was the daughter of the distinguished Bishop Mainwaring, who was chaplain to Charles I of England. "Another ancestor, Richard Bennet, was appointed Governor of Maryland by the British Parliament in 1652, and afterwards was chosen Governor of Virginia.” One son and two daughters of Dr. Browne are practicing physicians. Coe, John Alexander. Born in Prince George County, Maryland, December 24, 1864. Educated at Charlotte Hall Academy, St. Mary's County, Maryland: M.D., College of Physicians and Surgeons, Maryland, 1887: Member of the Prince George County Medical Society: Member of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty, 1899: Member of The American Medical Association. Died February 28, 1921, at "T.B." where he practiced medicine since his graduation. ("T.B." is a much older settlement than is Brandywine, and had a Post Office until recently, but is now on a R.F.D. Route from Brandywine, Maryland.) Eareckson, Edith. One of the early women physicians of Baltimore, Maryland; daughter of the late Dr. Edwin and Martha A. Eareckson. Educated in the public schools of Baltimore, a graduate of the Eastern High School; later in a private school for the German language only, and still later in the private school of Miss Rinehart's, famous in its day; M.D., Woman's Medical College, Baltimore, 1893; Lecturer on Hygiene, Woman's Medical College, 1895-98; Associate Professor of Hygiene, Woman's Medical College, 1898-1900. Dr. Eareckson spent one year in postgraduate work in Berlin, Germany. Dr. Eareckson was a member of The Baltimore City Medical Society; of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty from 1895: of The American Medical Association. After ten or twelve years spent in the practice of general medicine Dr. Eareckson devoted all her time to insurance claim work. Dr. Eareckson died at her home, 1502 Madison Avenue, Baltimore, September 19, 1921, at the age of 55 years. A close friend writing of Dr. Eareckson closed her letter with the following lines, "She loved her work and literally died 'in the harness.'" Eilau, Emanuel W., born in Baltimore, 1854. Educated at Baltimore City College; Ph.G., Maryland College of Pharmacy, 1874; M.D., University of Maryland, 1879; Professor of Physiology, Baltimore University, 1890-95; Professor of Therapeutics, Baltimore University, 1895-96; Dean, Baltimore University, 1891-96. Member of The Baltimore City Medical Society, of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland from 1892; American Medical Association. Died at his home, 1908 Madison Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland, February 1, 1922. Fleming, George Alexander, died April 17, 1922, at his home, 1018 Madison Avenue, Baltimore; born in Baltimore, March 4, 1862; son of the late Dr. J. P. Fleming and Elizabeth Smith Fleming; educated in The Friends School; M.D., University of Maryland, 1884; Demonstrator of Ophthalmology, University of Maryland, 1901—; Surgeon, Presbyterian Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Baltimore; at one time Professor of Ear and Eye, Woman's Medical College, Baltimore. Dr. Fleming was a post-graduate student of the Johns Hopkins Medical School; Member of Advisory Board No. I, Medical Reserve Corps, as ear and eye examiner; Member of The Baltimore City Medical Society; Member of The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland since 1885; Fellow of The American Medical Association; Member of The American College of Surgeons; Associate Member of The Baltimore County Medical Association; Member of The Ophthalmological Society; Member of University Club; Member of St. Andrew's Society. He was an elder in The Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore. Green, John Summerfield, was born September 12, 1856, in Harford County, Maryland, son of Joshua Royston and Sarah Rankin Green. Educated in the public schools of Harford and Baltimore Counties, and at the Millersville Academy, Pennsylvania. Dr. Green began the study of medicine under the preceptorship of his maternal uncle, Dr. Robert Rankin of Waverly, Baltimore County, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland in 1882. Dr. Green was a family physician of the old school, of some forty years service to many of the families of Baltimore County; more particularly in and about Long Green Valley. Dr. Green was a lifelong member of Chestnut Grove Presbyterian Church; an elder for the past 31 years; superintendent of the Sunday School for 26 years. Dr. Green was prominently connected with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He was a member of Bethany Lodge, Glenarm; Past Master of The Grand Lodge of Maryland: Past Grand Patriarch of Maryland: Grand Representative at the time of his death. He was a member of Long Green Grange. Dr. Green was a member of The Baltimore County Medical Association; The Medical and Chirurgical Faculty from 1894. In 1883 Dr. Green and Miss Eleanor Baldwin were married, Morris B. Green, M.D., of Hamilton, Baltimore County, Maryland, and John S. Green, Jr., M.D., of Towson, sons of Dr. Green survive him. Dr. Green died August 2, 1921. Gundry, Lewis Henry, born at Dayton, Ohio, May 24, 1868; son of Dr. Richard F. and Mrs. M. M. Gundry. Educated at public and Marston's Schools, Baltimore, and Johns Hopkins University. Graduated in Medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, 1890: Resident Physician at City Hospital, 1890-91: First Assistant Physician Eastern Insane Asylumn, Richmond, Indiana, 1891-94: General Practice in Baltimore, 1894-1904: Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases at Maryland Medical School, 1900 (until 1913); conducted the Relay Sanitarium, 1904-21. Member of Baltimore County Medical Association, and President in 1915. Member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of the State of Maryland, 1896 and the American Medical Association, the Maryland Psychiatric Society, and the Medico-Psychological Association. Died September 15, 1921, survived by widow, Mrs. Sadie Perkins Gundry, and son, Lewis P. Gundry. |