either from the standpoint of a war emergency measure, or even much further than that, with regard to absolute prohibition. It has been very gratifying to find many physicians who have reached the conclusion that alcohol has very little, if any use as a medicine, and that whiskey has been barred from the "Pharmacopoeia." It seems an opportune time for your State Convention to, first, indorse the proposition to prohibit or limit the sale and use of liquor for the period of the war. Second, to indorse the proposition to stop the use of grain in the manufacture of liquor, as a food conservation measure, and, third, to indorse the submission of the State Wide Prohibition amendment for a vote by the people. This amendment has passed through the present Legislature in its first stage, and must receive the approval of the next General Assembly by two-thirds vote in both Houses. Many members of the medical fraternity have given public indorsement of the Prohibition question, and it would seem to me that the men who comprise the State Medical Association have a very vital interest in this matter. I shall be very pleased indeed, in behalf of the Allied Temperance Forces of the State, to receive through your Secretary, any action that the Medical Society may take on this important matter. Will you please advise me as to what you think concerning this subject, and if you will call the attention of the Society to it? Sincerely yours, E. L. G. HOHENTHAL, President of the Allied Temperance Forces. Letter from the Vice Chairman of the United States Employees' Compensation Commission, Washington, D. C. DR. SAMUEL M. GARLICK, President of the Medical Association of Connecticut, Dear Doctor: April 28, 1917. The United States Employees' Compensation Commission is desirous of securing the coöperation of your state organization in the administration of the Federal law for compensation. Will you kindly inform us: Ist: If you have an established fee bill? 2nd: If the Commission establishes a principle of allowing each patient free choice of physician, what would be considered a just minimum fee for each class or injury as it might obtain in your state? 3rd: What per cent of deduction of fees prevail in your state for government work? The Commission has decided to coöperate with the Public Health Service wherever that service is available in carrying out the intent of the law in furnishing medical and surgical relief to civilian employees, and Surgeon B. W. Warren of that Service has been detailed by Surgeon General Blue to act as the medical director of this work in the coöperation of this service with our Commission. The Commission will greatly appreciate a speedy reply to this letter and any suggestions you may have to make to assist in this stupendous task which is now being formulated by us. A franked envelope, which requires no postage, is inclosed for your reply. Very truly yours, MRS. FRANCES C. AXTELL, Vice-Chairman. (2) Report of the Secretary, Dr. Marvin McR. Scarbrough (New Haven): REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. Mr. President and Members of the House of Delegates: The year has been uneventful as regards the Connecticut State Medical Society as such. The County Societies held their usual Fall and Spring Meetings with average attendance. Owing to the intensity of specialization in the profession, it is becoming increasingly difficult to supply programmes which present something that is of interest to and yet not too technical for the majority of the members. It is perhaps not amiss to suggest that the County Secretaries might get much assistance in the preparation of the programmes by closer coöperation with each other and with the State organization. Such an arrangement would prevent too great overlapping of programmes, provide special features, etc., which would stimulate interest and attendance. As the By-Laws do not detail such duties to any special committee, the work of the Committee on Scientific Work is not so burdensome but that it could assume such duties. It does not seem advisable to have a new committee formed for such purpose, as the State Society is overrun with special committees. The Semi-Annual Meeting was held in conjunction with the Litchfield County Medical Association instead of the Fairfield County Medical Association. This was brought about by the innovation of holding the Annual Meeting at Bridgeport. The Semi-Annual Meeting was held at the recently-opened Charlotte Hungerford Hospital at Torrington on October 3, 1916. The attendance was unusually good, visitors coming from all parts of the State. Opportunity was given for members to inspect the Hospital. The trustees of the Hospital gave a complimentary luncheon at 12:30 P. M. The Scientific Programme was of good quality and evoked considerable discussion. If the established order is continued the next Semi-Annual Meeting should be held with Windham County. The members of the Society in good standing now number 1,021, which is 74 greater than reported last year. This unusual increase is accounted for by the efforts of L. P. Van Duzer, official organizer of the American Medical Association, who visited this State last summer and secured 52 acceptable names. If the 13 honorary and 16 suspended members are included, the membership is 1,037. The following list comprises the new members admitted at the Fall Meeting last year and the Spring Meeting this year. There are in all III names. NEW MEMBERS. A. William Branon, Jefferson, 1913, Hartford. Leroy A. Hovey, Univ. of Vt., 1910, Southington. LeVerne Holmes, Boston Univ. Homeo. School of Medicine, 1904, South Manchester. James F. Lynch, P. & S., Balt., 1913, Hartford. James Raglan Miller, Hopkins, 1910, A.B. Yale, 1907, Hartford. D. C. Y. Moore, N. Y. Homeo., 1895, Manchester. Sidney Horace McPherson, Tufts, 1913, Hartford. Harry Jay Onderdonk, N. Y. Univ., 1897, East Hartford. Spotswood H. Parker, Univ. of Virginia, 1904, Hartford. Fannie Radom, Pa., Women's Med., 1912, Hartford. Frank F. Simonton (A.B. Wesleyan), Bowdoin, 1903, Thompsonville. Charles Ransom Upson, L. I. Col., 1870, Bristol. McCleod C. Wilson, Cornell, 1904, Hartford. Thatcher Washburn Worthen (A.B. Dartmouth), Dartmouth, 1911, Hartford. Arthur Brownell Wright (A.B. Union), P. & S., N. Y., 1895, Hartford. C. Charles Burlingame, Hahn. Chiro., 1908, South Manchester. James Elder Hutchinson, Hopkins, 1914, A.B. Ohio State Univ., 1909, Hartford. Carl J. Kilbourn, Univ. of Vt., 1914, Collinsville. Carl Frithrop Vernlund, Harvard, 1914, B.S. So. Dakota State, 1909, Thornton E. Vail, Hopkins, 1911, Ph.B. Yale, 1907, Thompsonville. Francis E. Gessner, Yale, 1912, New Haven. Donald W. Porter, Harvard, 1912, New Haven. Anthony P. Vastola, Fordham Univ., 1912, Waterbury. Arthur S. McQueen, Yale, 1901, Branford. Michael F. Claffey, Univ. of Vt., 1914, Naugatuck. Thomas A. O'Brien, Yale, 1902, New Haven. Genesis F. Carelli, Yale, 1911, New Haven. Albert L. Hendricks, Yale, 1907, New Haven. William P. Baldwin, Yale, 1890 (N. Y. Homeo, 1891), New Haven. Charles T. Baldwin, Bell Med. Col., 1883, Derby. C. H. Mercer, Maryland Med. Col., 1905, Ansonia. Fred J. Peck, Mich. Univ. Homeo. Dept., 1892, Ansonia. William P. J. Burke, Yale, 1890, New Haven. Michael S. Aaronson, N. Y. Univ., 1913, Ansonia. Henry W. Beckwith, Dartmouth Med. Col., 1912, Seymour. Donald G. Russell, Yale, 1914, Wallingford. C. F. Smith, N. Y. Homeo. Col., 1884, Wallingford. D. A. Richardson, Yale, 1881, Derby. William J. Cooney, Yale, 1912, New Haven. Robert A. Bonner, Univ. of Maryland, 1912, Waterbury. Raymond J. Quinn, Phys. and Surg., Balt., Md., 1913, Waterbury. John H. McGrath, Yale, 1908, Waterbury. P. S. Anderson, N. Y. Homeo. Med. Col., 1913, Waterbury. John J. Egan, Univ. of Maryland, 1907, Waterbury. Carleton K. Heady, Jeff. Med., 1913, Milford. Thomas F. Healy, L. I. Med. Col., 1908, Waterbury. Joseph A. Hoegen, N. Y. Homeo., 1915, New Haven. Simon B. Kleiner, Yale, 1915, New Haven. David A. Flynn, Yale, 1905, Ph.B. Yale, New Haven. Paul B. Kennedy, Bellevue, 1895, Derby. James F. Young, P. & S., N. Y., 1913, New London. John W. Callahan, P. & S., Balt., 1911, Norwich. George P. Cheney, Maryland Med. School, 1913, New London. John H. McLaughlin, P. & S., Balt., 1909, Jewett City. Louis Irving Pratte, Quebec, 1879, Taftville. Daniel T. Banks, Fordham, 1912, Bridgeport. Joseph Cohen, Med. Col., N. Y., 1909, A.B. Col. City of N. Y., 1894, Bridgeport. James J. Costanzo, Univ. of Ill., Stamford. George Eversleigh Cram, P. & S., N. Y., 1901, Ph.B. Yale, 1897, Norwalk. Edward Wilson Dupee, Univ. of Maryland, 1900, Bridgeport. Carl Johannas Gade, Yale, 1910, Bridgeport. Daniel Patrick Griffen, Jeff., 1914, Bridgeport. Thomas Francis Healy, Niagara, 1893, Bridgeport. George B. Garlick, Yale, 1912, Bridgeport. James Lowry Gilday, Med. Col., Cin., 1913, Bridgeport. Martin Isadore Horn, Med. Col., N. Y. City, 1912, N. Y. Homeo. Med. Col. & Flower Hosp., 1913, Bridgeport. Walter H. Kiernan, McGill, 1898, Sandy Hook. Don Jerome Knowlton, Harvard, 1912, A.B. Harvard, Greenwich. John Francis Quinn, Balt. Med., 1906, Bridgeport. Upton S. Reich, Univ. of Va., 1909, Bridgeport. Thomas F. Scanlon, Yale, 1907, Bridgeport. Maurice Steinberger, Royal Hung. Univ. of Buda Pesth, 1889, Med. Col. of N. Y., 1909, A.B. Coll. Col., Bridgeport. Harry Leslie Stilphen, Univ. of Vt., 1913, Shelton. Edwin B. Welden, P. & S., Balt., Bridgeport. Henry Willard Allen, Med. Chi., 1909, Ridgefield. John Thomas H. Powers, P. & S., Balt., 1910, Bridgeport. Edward J. Frim, Yale, 1910, Shelton. William Earl Smith, Univ. of Mich., 1910, Stamford. William Champion Deming, P. & S., N. Y., 1884, Georgetown. Aaron Billings Gates, L. I. Hosp., 1912, Greenwich. George Anthony Davis, Jeff., 1903, Bridgeport. |