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emergency and training their personnel to handle the increased work should the necessity arise.

The addition of up-to-date laboratories and scientific apparatus shows a marked tendency toward the more scientific study and treatment of disease.

Bridgeport has just issued bonds for the building of a new $200,000 Hospital for Contagious Diseases and has just built an addition to its present Isolation Hospital for the care of tuberculous patients. Bridgeport is at present signing contracts for a $200,000 Health and Charities Building which will contain a Public Clinic to be run along the lines of the Massachusetts General Hospital Clinics.

This clinic, besides having the usual medical, surgical and special clinics, will be equipped with a $7,000 X-Ray division, an emergency hospital with ambulance service, drug, food, chemical and bacteriological laboratories and a lecture room with moving picture arrangements so that the nurses, inspectors and employees of the department as well as the general public may be instructed in public health matters.

Along public health lines preparations are being made to handle a Polio. epidemic, should it occur this summer, without the hysteria and confusion of our past experiences.

Tuberculosis is much neglected and the laws covering the reporting and handling of tuberculosis are known to few if any physicians and are not enforced by the authorities whose sworn duty it is to do so. A study of the records show that at times more deaths have occurred than there were cases reported.

Bridgeport is now running a Tuberculosis Clinic and sending the dangerous cases to its Isolation Hospital, incipient cases to State Sanatoria and arrested cases are being followed up by the Public Welfare nurses and the clinic physicians.

The medical affairs of the county seem to be running smoothly, nothing having been brought to the attention of the Councilor for his official attention.

Respectfully submitted,

FRANK W. STEVENS,

Councilor.

(e) Windham County, by Dr. Robert C. White: Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

It is a pleasure for me as Councilor of Windham County to report a most satisfactory degree of harmony among the medical men, whether members of our Association or not. The interest manifest in our society matters is best shown by the large percentage of our membership attending these meetings. During the year an especial effort has been made by our members to interest all eligible physicians within our borders to take membership with us. The result of our campaign has resulted in three new members.

During the winter Dr. J. A. Goucher contracted pneumonia and died. A young man of much natural ability, well qualified by nature and education to have taken an advanced standing in his chosen profession. He was twenty-six years old and a resiIdent of Putnam.

Our present membership is thirty-eight, a gain of two for the year. Society activities have been limited to our usual two meetings. Our semi-annual meeting was held at Danielson, October 19, 1916. A most interesting and instructive paper by Dr. Locke of Hartford on "Some Observations on Infantile Paralysis" was read by Dr. Overlock. At the time of our meeting Dr. Locke was seriously ill with appendicitis and unable to be present. Expressions of sympathy for Dr. Locke and the sincere wish for his speedy recovery were expressed by all present.

The 124th annual meeting of the Association was held at Putnam, April 19. Resolutions favorable to the adoption of the Maryland Plan by the Connecticut State Medical Society for caring for the practice of the members called to the colors were unanimously adopted. The following motion was also carried: "We offer to the United States Government our services individually or as a society during the present war."

The literary programme included a paper by Dr. H. F. Stoll of Hartford on "Some Sociological, Economic, and Medical Aspects of Syphilis." His paper was made doubly interesting and comprehensive by the use of lantern slides. Dr. Stoll needs

no commendation from us for the able manner in which he treated this most important subject. His clinical data is up-todate, his conclusions logical, and the impressive and convincing manner in which he treats the subject leaves no doubt in the minds of his listeners as to his knowledge or interest in it.

We were honored at this meeting in having with us our State President, Dr. Garlick. He delivered a short address on "Matters concerning the medical profession in the present war."

My report as Councilor for Windham County would be most incomplete if I failed to record the great satisfaction and pleasure in the recovery of one of our members. His condition at the time of our meeting in April, 1916, was considered hopeless. We trust he may be spared to us for many years, the same wise counselor and true friend. I refer, gentlemen, to Dr. S. B. Overlock.

Respectfully submitted,

ROBERT C. White,

Councilor.

Our

(f) Middlesex County, by Dr. George N. Lawson: Mr. President and Members of the House of Delegates: There is little to report from Middlesex County. physicians have in their quiet and harmonious way been working for the good of their communities and for the advancement of their profession.

The two county meetings were well attended and the papers read were of high character.

The Central Medical Association has held monthly meetings in Middletown with interesting addresses by invited specialists and by its own members.

The pathological laboratory in connection with the Middlesex Hospital efficiently conducted by Dr. Jessie W. Fisher, has proved of the greatest value to the physicians of the county.

In the death of Prof. H. W. Conn, who was cut down in the midst of his usefulness, the county and the State has lost a man whose place it will be hard to fill.

Our physicians have enthusiastically and generously devoted much time to the activities connected with preparedness for the conditions of war, such as conducting first aid classes, examining for the Home Guard and coöperating with the work of the Red Cross. At a recent meeting of all the physicians of the county, twenty-one offered their services to the Government, and it was unanimously voted to support the Maryland Plan of caring for the practice of such as left for work in connection with the war.

Respectfully submitted,

GEORGE N. LAWSON,

Councilor.

(g) Tolland County, by Dr. Thomas F. Rockwell:

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: There has been very little change in the membership of the Tolland County Medical Association during the year. The Association has gained one member, Dr. J. W. Dawson of Stafford Springs, and lost one by death, Dr. Frederick Gilnack of Rockville. He graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York in the year 1867, and since that date has been in active practice in Rockville and Tolland County until within three years, when he retired from active work on account of ill health. His obituary notice was read before the annual meeting by Dr. E. P. Flint, and will appear in the record of the proceedings of this Society.

The members of the profession have had a very busy winter. The Johnson Memorial Hospital of Stafford Springs, the only hospital in Tolland County, has had a very prosperous year, being filled with patients nearly all of the time.

The semi-annual meeting was held at Stafford Springs, Tuesday, October 17, 1916. The papers of the meeting were "Poliomyelitis in Connecticut," by Dr. John T. Black, Secretary of the State Board of Health, and "Some Professional Observations Respecting 'The Mother of the Family," by Dr. Gideon C.

Segur of Hartford.

The papers were very interesting and instructive. We were highly honored by the presence of Dr. Garlick, President of the State Society. It is a long trip from Bridgeport to Stafford Springs, and I can assure him that all the members present at the meeting appreciated his coming.

The 125th annual meeting was held in Rockville, Tuesday, April 17, 1917. Professor Winslow of the Yale School of Medicine gave us a very interesting and profitable talk on "The Public Health Problems of Connecticut." Papers were also given by Dr. Orin R. Witter of Hartford on "The Toxaemias of Pregnancy: Their Management with Prognosis for the Mother: Care of the Baby," and by Dr. Isaac P. Fiske of North Coventry on "Treatment of Poliomyelitis."

Respectfully submitted,

THOS. F. ROCKWELL,

(h) Litchfield County, by Dr. Elias Pratt:

Councilor.

Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

The notable event during the past year in Litchfield County was the opening of the Charlotte Hungerford Memorial Hospital in Torrington. I need not tell you of this hospital for the State Society met with us at our semi-annual meeting last fall, the meeting being held at the hospital.

This meeting was very largely attended and the programme was excellent. There was a most interesting discussion of infantile paralysis. We also had our annual meeting this spring which brought out a goodly number of our members owing to the interest in medical preparedness. Dr. Frank K. Hallock gave an address on this subject and followed it with an appeal for volunteers for the Medical Reserve of the United States Army, which met with a very generous response.

Respectfully submitted,

ELIAS PRATT,

Councilor.

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