after the expected bill on health insurance had been presented to the legislature. No such bill was presented, therefore there seemed to be no reason for calling a meeting. The suggestions in the report of the committee for 1920 have been largely carried out and most of the county associations and city societies have had committees who have made reports on health insurance. We believe that most of the profession have given considerable thought to health insurance and are better prepared to express an opinion on it than they were two or three years ago. It is probable that two years from this time a bill on health insurance will be introduced into the State Legislature, when there should be a committee of the Society to consider such a bill and take action regarding it. For the next year there will be little for such a committee to do. We therefore recommend that the present committee be discharged and that a new committee be appointed at the 1922 meeting of the Society. Respectfully submitted, C. J. FOOTE, Chairman. Voted, to accept the report and place it on file. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON REQUIREMENTS FOR THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. DR. D. CHESTER BROWN, Danbury, Chairman. In Dr. Brown's absence and at his request, Dr. Blumer reported as follows: "What was done has been well covered in the Council's report. The Committee held a number of meetings, and at the request of the Civil Code Commission, formulated its views in the form of Bill No. 860. The Committee started with the idea that it would present suggestions to the Civil Code Commission, but at the request of that Commission, the Committee made the suggestions in the form of a bill; that was done with the idea that the bill was not to be presented unaltered to the Legislature, for the Committee had no power to confer with other bodies, such as the dentists and osteopaths, and it was thought the bill would be modified by the Civil Code Commission, and be put in a different form. As Dr. Carmalt has already stated, it was put in unchanged by the Civil Code Commission, and the bill after being amended was defeated. The only suggestion that Dr. Brown transmitted was that he has not given up hope that something will be done in the future, and he hopes that the Committee will be continued or another committee for the same purpose appointed." Voted, to accept the report and place it on file. Voted, to approve the request for the continuance of the Committee. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. DR. JOHN E. LANE, New Haven, Chairman. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: Your Committee on Publication this year reports some progress, much trouble and more expense. Labor troubles in the printing world delayed the publication of the Proceedings to some extent last year in spite of the efforts of the publishers. The delay was not due to the Editor, Doctor Rogers, nor to the dilatoriness of the members of the Society. With very few exceptions members who have had material for publication have had it in the hands of the Secretary on time. Those who have constituted the exceptions have discovered that the notice of the Editor, that material not received on time will not be published till the following year, means literally what it says. The cost of printing the Proceedings has about doubled since the beginning of the War, and this expense is the chief, if not the only cause for the necessity of increasing the dues. That this has not been necessary earlier is a reason for offering a vote of thanks to the Treasurer, and to many members of committees who have served without rendering expense accounts, in spite of considerable travel. New labor troubles at the printing house will probably delay this year's Proceedings, and this unsettled condition again prevented your Committee from being able to secure an estimate of this year's cost of publication. The publication of the Proceedings is a great expense, and a few members of the Society have suggested to the Committee that it might be well to abandon it, and perhaps substitute an irregular and small Bulletin, such a one for instance as is issued by the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland. The Committee presents this suggestion with no recommendation. Respectfully submitted, J. E. LANE, Voted, to accept the report and place it on file. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON REPORT OF THE AUDITORS. Chairman. (These reports are embodied in the Report of the Treasurer.) REPORT OF THE DELEGATES TO THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION. DR. JOHN E. LANE AND DR. WALTER R. STEINER, Delegates [A brief oral report was made by Dr. Steiner. Formal report of the 1920 Meeting of the American Medical Association was included in the published Proceedings for 1920.] Since the Annual Session of the Society, the following report of the 1921 Meeting of the American Medical Association has been received from the Delegates from the Society. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The seventy-second annual session of the American Medical Association was held in Boston, June 6 to 10, 1921. It was a well attended meeting, the registration being over five thousand. About one hundred and fifty physicians registered from Connecticut. The work of the Local Committee of Arrangements, of which Doctor Fred B. Lund, of Boston, was chairman, is to be highly commended. The large number of physicians were well cared for. Information bureaus were placed in easily accessible places all over the city, and the indefatigable Chairman seemed to be omnipresent with his cordial greetings. One of the features of the work of this Committee was a Guide to Boston for Physicians, published by a subcommittee and edited by Dr. Walter L. Burrage, the Secretary of the Massachusetts Medical Society. This was a book of one hundred and seventy-five pages, well illustrated and containing many notes and illustrations of medical interest not found in the usual guide book. The Committee deserves great commendation for its publication, as its preparation must have demanded much care and time. The following officers were elected: President-elect, Dr. George E. de Schweinitz of Philadelphia; Vice-President, Dr. Frank B. Wynn of Indianapolis; Secretary, Dr. Alexander R. Craig of Chicago; Treasurer, Dr. William A. Pusey, of Chicago; Speaker of the House of Delegates, Dr. Dwight H. Murray of Syracuse; Vice-Speaker, Dr. F. C. Warnshuis of Grand Rapids. Drs. Frank Billings, Wendell C. Phillips and Thomas McDavitt were re-elected as members of the Board of Trustees. Dr. Walter R. Steiner was appointed a member of the Reference Committee on Hygiene and Public Health, and Dr. John E. Lane was re-elected a member of the Council on Scientific Assembly for a term of five years. It is impossible to give any outline of the important work and reports of the Board of Trustees and of the Councils and Committees. Many important questions were carefully considered in these reports and recommendations made. These reports will have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association before this report is published, and the reader is referred to that Journal, and urged to read the reports carefully as they represent the opinions of the different Committees on many of the questions which are at present of the greatest importance to the medical profession in this country. Respectfully submitted, J. E. LANE, WALTER R. STEINER, Delegates. (Note. This report was not read at the Annual Meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society, but it was thought best to include it in this issue as it was received in time for publication. Editor.) REPORT OF THE DELEGATES TO THE To Maine: DR. PHINEAS H. INGALLS, Hartford. Dr. Ingalls was unable to attend the meeting; not properly notified. To Massachusetts: DR. SELDOM B. OVERLOCK, Promfret. Your delegate attended the one hundred and thirty-ninth annual meeting of the Massachusetts Medical Society held at Boston in June of last year. He was cordially received by the officers of the society and heartily welcomed by many personal friends in the profession who were present at the meeting. In so large a society the meeting is divided into sections rendering it impossible for a delegate to hear all the papers presented and discussed at the meeting. These sections were that of surgery, medicine, pediatrics, tuberculosis, hospital administration and preventive medicine, each section having a separate chairman and secretary. Beside the sections and business meetings, on the evening of the first day the Shattuck Lecture is delivered, and at noon of the second day the Annual Discourse. These are given by some man eminent in the profession. Last year the Shattuck Lecture was by Assistant-Surgeon General Dr. Allan J. McLaughlin of the Public Health Service and the Annual Discourse by Dr. Hugh Cabot, Professor of Surgery, University of Michigan. |