MINUTES OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES

FIRST SESSION.

The first meeting of the House of Delegates was held at the New Haven Medical Association Building, New Haven, on Wednesday, May 19, 1920, at 10: 30 A. M. The following officers and delegates were present during the meeting: President, C. B. Graves; Vice-President, F. H. Wheeler; Treasurer, P. H. Ingalls; Secretary, J. E. Lane; Councilors: F. W. Stevens, Fairfield County; W. R. Steiner, Hartford County; G. N. Lawson, Middlesex County; W. H. Carmalt, New Haven County; C. C. Gildersleeve, New London County; T. F. Rockwell, Tolland County; S. B. Overlock, Windham County. Delegates: Fairfield County-C. C. Godfrey, J. W. Avery, E. B. Ives, C. V. Calvin, C. J. Leverty; Hartford County-No delegates present; Litchfield County-No delegates present; Middlesex County-J. F. Calef; New Haven County-E. T. Bradstreet, F. G. Graves, W. L. Barber, B. A. Cheney, H. Thoms; New London County-No delegates present; Tolland County No delegates present; Windham County-A. D.

Marsh.

The following reports were read, and except where otherwise noted, accepted and ordered on file.

REPORT OF THE PRESIDENT.

DR. CHARLES B. GRAVES.

Members of the House of Delegates:

The year which is just closing has been relatively uneventful. My report will therefore be brief. The readjustment following the war, so far as it has concerned medical men and medical affairs, has proceeded swiftly, so that now the conditions of civil medical practice and medical institutions are pretty much as they were before the war.

The past winter, however, we shall not soon forget. Weather conditions which were unprecedented combined with an epidemic of influenza, made a combination sufficiently impressive as well as oppressive. Happily the influenza was not in the main of a virulent type so that we have come through it passably well.

The Society has suffered the loss during the past year of three of its honorary members: Dr. J. W. S. Gouley of New York, Sir James Grant of Ottawa, and Sir William Osler. Dr. Gouley, born in New Orleans in 1832, graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York in 1853, Civil War Surgeon, long resident in New York in private and hospital practice, productive medical author, was for many years and until his retirement professor of diseases of the genito-urinary system in the medical department of the University of New York. Sir James Grant, native of Scotland in 1830, educated in Canada, M.D. 1854 McGill University, knighted by Queen Victoria in 1887, long president of the Ottawa General Hospital and member of Parliament, an authority in sanitary science, was acknowledged one of the most eminent men of the Dominion. Sir William Osler's life needs no rehearsal. It is familiar to all. Encomiums from me upon the lives of these three distinguished men would be superfluous, peculiarly so in the case of the last named-one of those "born to make the sun forgotten." The Society has been honored in having their names upon its roll.

The semi-annual meeting of the State Society was held as scheduled at the Mansfield State Training School and Hospital in conjunction with the fall meeting of the Tolland County Medical Association. It was my first visit to the institution, and the extent of the state's interest there was a surprise to me. The attendance was not as large as it should have been. My impression is that the men from the smaller places do not respond to these opportunities as they ought. Those who failed to go missed a very interesting scientific program, as well as a fine farm dinner provided by the hospitality of the trustees and management of the institution.

The other County Associations have held their customary meetings, of which I have visited as many as I conveniently