DELEGATES. DELEGATES TO THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. Walter R. Steiner, July 1, 1920- John E. Lane, July 1, 1921—June 30, MINUTES OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES. FIRST SESSION. The first meeting of the House of Delegates was held at the Hunt Memorial Building, Hartford, on Wednesday, May 18, 1921, at 9.15 A. M., Standard Time. The following Officers and Delegates were present during the meeting: President, George Blumer; Vice-President, William H. Donaldson; Treasurer, Phineas H. Ingalls; Secretary, Charles W. Comfort, Jr.; Councilors: Fairfield County-Frank W. Stevens; Hartford CountyWalter R. Steiner; Litchfield County-Elias Pratt; Middlesex County C. Floyd Haviland (by Roy C. Leak); New Haven County William H. Carmalt; New London County-Charles C. Gildersleeve; Tolland County- Thomas F. Rockwell; Windham County-Seldom B. Overlock. Delegates: Fairfield CountyP. W. Bill, D. C. Brown (by C. C. Godfrey), C. V. Calvin, S. M. Garlick, J. D. Gold, E. B. Ives. Absent: F. C. Hyde; Hartford County C. D. Alton, C. B. Brainard, C. C. Burlingame, T. H. Denne, T. C. Hodgson, E. H. Truex, R. M. Yergason; Litchfield County No delegate present. Absent: C. H. Carlin; Middlesex County—J. F. Calef. Absent: J. Murphy; New Haven County C. J. Bartlett, E. T. Bradstreet, E. W. Goodenough, F. G. Graves, W. E. Hartshorn, J. E. McGaughey, S. D. Otis, N. A. Pomeroy. Absent: T. N. Loomis (notified unable to attend), C. E. Sanford; New London County-W. H. Gray, A. C. Freeman. Absent: H. H. Heyer; Tolland County-W. B. Bean; Windham County-A. D. Marsh, R. C. Paine. REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT. DR. GEORGE BLUMER, New Haven. Members of the House of Delegates: After the strenuous years of the war, and the even more hectic periods associated with the two recent influenza outbreaks, the past year, with its mild weather and its paucity of the usual pulmonary infections, must have seemed to many of us "flat, stale and unprofitable." There is therefore little for the President to report. In the death of General W. C. Gorgas, the Society has lost, during the past year, one of its most distinguished honorary members. Born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1854, William Crawford Gorgas received his academic education at the University of the South and obtained his medical degree at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1879. He entered the Medical Corps of the United States Army in 1880 and steadily rose to the highest rank, that of Surgeon-General. His masterly work in sanitation, particularly the eradication of yellow fever from Havana and the cleaning up of the Canal Zone, will stand forever as capital achievements in the practical application of Medical Science to the prevention of disease. His loss is to be regretted, both as one who has been an honor to this Society and one who has added to the lustre of American Medicine. The semi-annual meeting of the Society was held last fall in Middletown, in conjunction with the Middlesex County Association. The authorities of the Connecticut Hospital for the Insane generously furnished not only a meeting place but also an excellent luncheon. The program was a varied one, and in addition to the formal papers there was an interesting exhibition of pathological brains and some very instructive charts showing the influence of heredity in certain mental diseases. The meeting was well attended and was a success in every way. The various County meetings have been held at their appointed times and I have been present at either a fall or a spring meeting of every society except the Tolland County Society, neither of |