Report of Cases of Infantile Paralysis. Dr. F. T. Fitch, East Hampton. Preventive Treatment of Otitis Media. Dr. Sheldon S. S. Campbell, Collinsville.

Report of Unusual Case. Dr. Leonard J. Loewe, Haddam.

Some of the Economic, Sociological, and Medical Aspects of Syphilis. Dr. Henry F. Stoll, Hartford.

Skin Lesions of Syphilis. Dr. R. A. McDonnell, New Haven.
Wassermann Disappointments. Dr. Jessie W. Fisher, Middletown.
Differentiation between Paresis and Vascular Syphilis. Dr. E. G.
Gibson.

Discussion of papers by Drs. A. B. Coleburn, Irwin Grannis and
D. A. Nolan.

TOLLAND COUNTY.

October 17, 1916.

PAPERS AND DISCUSSIONS:

Laws Relating to Milk and Other Foods. Frank H. Stadtmueller, Connecticut State Dairy and Food Commissioner.

Dr.

Increasing Our Membership and Efficiency in General Practice. Samuel M. Garlick, President Connecticut State Medical Society. Poliomyelitis in Connecticut. Dr. John T. Black, New London, Secretary Connecticut State Board of Health.

Comparison of Medicines and Instruments and Various Accessories in the Practice of Medicine Past and Present. Dr. Cyrus B. Newton, Stafford Springs.

Some Professional Observations Respecting "The Mother of the Family." Dr. Gideon C. Segur, Hartford.

Observations on the Present Day Practice of Obstetrics and Midwifery. Dr. Samuel M. Garlick.

State Board of Charities: Its Relation to the Insane and Unfit. Dr. E. A. Down, Hartford, Chairman of the Board.

The Toxaemias of Pregnancy: Their Management with Prognosis for the Mother: Care of the Baby. Dr. Orin R. Witter, Hartford. Public Health Problems of Connecticut. C.-E. A. Winslow, Anna M. R. Lauder Professor of Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine.

Treatment of Poliomyelitis. Dr. Isaac P. Fiske, Coventry.

County Report "Typho-Malaria." Dr. Cyrus B. Newton, Stafford Springs.

OBITUARIES.

Jean Dumortier, M.D., South Norwalk.

SAMUEL H. HUNTINGTON, M.D., NORWALK.

Dr. Jean Dumortier died suddenly at his home in South Norwalk on December 13, 1916.

About six months before his death he was attacked by multiple neuritis. The disease progressed slowly but steadily while he continued his work without complaint until the month of September, when, physically exhausted and mentally depressed, he sought rest and change of scene in a trip to Atlantic City. Here serious abdominal complications first attracted his attention, causing him to return home and submit to operation for removal of the gall bladder. After the operation, from which he made a good recovery with marked improvement in digestion and relief of abdominal distress, he hoped to again resume his work, but the neuritis still continued, in fact seemed increasing in severity. Worn out by pain and insomnia, one winter morning, after a night of suffering he slept,—

"The sleep that knows not breaking,

Morn of toil, nor night of waking."

Dr. Dumortier was born in the Flemish town of Avelghem in Belgium on August 13, 1865. His early education was acquired in the Atheneum, Tournai, Belgium. He graduated from the Atheneum at the age of eighteen and entered the University of Ghent, attending the academic and later the medical course. His standing was high; at the time of graduation he stood at the head of his class. He graduated in medicine and surgery, July 7, 1890, his diploma states, "avec tres plus Grande Distinction."

He won a prize scholarship, which enabled him to pursue a post-graduate course of study in surgery at clinics in Brussels, Vienna, Berlin, Paris and London. He served for about two years as surgeon on the ships of the Red Star Line, sailing between Antwerp and New York and Philadelphia. Having resolved that America should be his home and the field of his life

work, he came to South Norwalk in 1895, where he resided until his death.

He married, June 14, 1900, Mabel H. Beers of South Norwalk. They had two children, a son and a daughter.

In the summer of 1914 he attended the International Congress of Surgeons in London and for the first time in twenty-five years visited his friends and relatives in Belgium. When he left Belgium to return home that country was peaceful, prosperous, and happy, but on arriving in London he was greeted by the news that the peaceful country he had just left was plunged in the horrors of the German invasion.

Anxiety regarding near relatives suffering the hardships of war whom he could neither relieve or communicate with no doubt contributed in part to the nervous breakdown of his last days.

Dr. Dumortier was a respected citizen of the community in which he lived, actively interested in all public movements. As a surgeon he won an enviable reputation by hard study, enthusiasm and close application to his work. That his studies embraced a wider range than mere professional reading was shown by his acquirements as a linguist, he being able to speak fluently no less than five languages. He was a member of the American Medical Association, the Connecticut State Medical Society, the Norwalk Medical Association, and the Medical Staff of the Norwalk Hospital. Also he was a corresponding member of various European medical and scientific societies. His untimely death is a distinct loss to the community, to the medical profession and to this Society.