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The more important additions to the personnel of the Department are, an assistant epidemiologist and additional district health officers for the Division of Communicable Diseases, a supervising nurse for the Division of Tuberculosis, a medical assistant, a clinical nurse, and an organizer of child welfare service for the Division of Child Hygiene and Public Health Nursing, a chief of the Division of Biological and Research Laboratories, a chief of the Division of Public Health Instruction, together with material increases in the clerical and field staff of all divisions.

Society Proceedings

CLINTON COUNTY.

The meeting was called to order by Vice-President Dr. H. B. Warren, New Baden, Ill., Aug. 12, 1919. The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and approved.

Motions were made and passed that the following revisions in the fee bill become effective immediately: 1. Visit in town, day, $2. Medicine extra.

2. Visit in country, first mile, $2.50. Each additional mile, $1.

Bad roads and inclement weather-extra.

3. Visit at night-one and one-half times day visit. 4. Uncomplicated confinement cases, town, $20. Uncomplicated confinement cases, country, $25. Special visits-extra.

5. Forceps cases, $10 extra.

A motion was made and carried that a committee be appointed to publish the readjustment of the fee bill in all the county papers. Also to have bills printed and to post same in the offices of all physicians in the county.

Dr. C. A. Powell of 928 N. Grand Ave., St. Louis, Mo., gave a good discussion on expert and general diagnostic methods of internal medicine.

Dr. J. W. Stewart, chief surgeon, city hospital, St. Louis, Mo., gave a good discussion on head injuries, methods of diagnostic value and course to pursue as to treatment.

Dr. P. Griesbaum of Lebanon was a visitor of the society.

Motions were made and carried that a vote of thanks be offered to Drs. Powell, Stewart and Griesbaum, for the great good contributed to the Clinton County Medical Society.

Breese was designated as the next meeting place, the meeting to be held there the second Tuesday in November.

DR .E. C. ASBURY. Acting Secretary.

MADISON COUNTY

Our July Meeting

Beverly Farm, Godfrey, Ill., July 11, 1919. Meeting called to order by the president Dr. C. R.

Kiser. In the absence of the secretary, Dr. J. A. Hirsch was appointed by the chair to act in his stead. Twelve members and twenty-six visitors present.

An excellent paper by Dr. Walter Baumgarten on "Lung Complications Other Than Pneumonia," was well received. The paper dealt chiefly with statistics compiled from reports from various army camps on these lung complications. The paper was discussed by Drs. M. A. Bliss and E. C. Ferguson.

A very instructive and highly interesting talk was given by Dr. M. A. Bliss, of St. Louis on "Some Psychoses." The speaker emphasized the necessity of a careful examination of all suspected cases of neurosis, psychosis and paresis, and the importance to the general public of making an early diagnosis in paresis. Disturbance in the function of the endocrine glands is sometimes a causative factor in epilepsy, neurasthenai, hysteria and the various psychoses. Hysteria frequently has an organic basis, such as brain tumors. Operative procedure and the administration of bromides was discouraged in the treatment of epilepsy. Colonization and kindly care give best results in these

cases.

Dr. Bliss' talk was ably discussed by Drs. Geo. A. Zeller, W. H. C. Smith, Geo. A. Johns and F. M. Barnes, Jr.

An elegant repast was served by Mrs. Smith which was enjoyed by all present.

A vote of thanks was extended to Dr. and Mrs. Smith for their hospitality; and to Drs. Baumgarten, Bliss, Smith, Zeller, Johns and Barnes for their instructive and scholarly talks and discussions on the various topics. Dr. Hirsch as Treasurer of the Madison County Anti-tuberculosis Association, reported the receipt of $45.00, as interest on deposits. On motion meeting was adjourned.

OGLE COUNTY.

The Ogle County Medical Society met in Rochelle, at the Chamber of Commerce, April 16, 1919. President W. E. Kittler, of Rochelle, presided. Sixteen members present. Among the visiting physicians who were present were Dr. C. B. Brown, of Sycamore, Dr. J. H. Stealey, of Freeport and Dr. D. B. Penniman, of Rockford.

Senator Atwood, Stillman Valley, was the guest of honor and delivered a short address telling how they chloroformed the osteopathic bill in the Senate.

Election of Officers: President, Dr. W. E. Kittler, Rochelle; vice-president, Dr. J. C. Akins, Forreston; secretary-treasurer, Dr. J. T. Kretsinger, Leaf River; member of the Board Censors for three years, Dr. S. C. Thomson, Byron; delegate to state society, Capt. C. J. Price, Mt. Morris; alternate, Capt. Harry H. Davis, Monroe Center.

The program was particularly interesting and instructive due to the fact that the speakers were Ogle County men who had served in France during the world war. Capt. Harry Davis, of Monroe Center discussed at length his "Experience in his Work Abroad." Capt. Chas. Price, of Mt. Morris, gave an

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Dr. D. B. Penniman, of Rockford, on behalf of the physicians of Rockford, extended a cordial invitation to all members of the society to be present at the Tri-State Medical Association which convenes Rockford, September 1. The program will consist of ten leading men of the country and eight leading men each from Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. Among the more prominent will be Gen. Leonard Wood, Bloodgood and Crile.

Light refreshments were served by the physicians of Rochelle after which the fee bill proposition was taken up.

The following communication was read by the Secretary.

Dear Doctor: At the recent meeting of the Illinois State Medical Society the subject of fees was discussed; it being the opinion that in many counties they have not been increased in proportion to the increase in the cost of living, and to give moral support in the counties in which it might be difficult to adjust the scale the following resolutions were adopted:

WHEREAS, the cost of medicines, instruments and everything else usen by the profession has increased in proportion to the cost of living, and

WHEREAS, the cost of medical and surgical services has not increased in proportion to the above, be it Resolved, that the House of Delegates endorses a general increase of fees over fees now in force to offset the above increase, and be it further

Resolved, that a copy of this resolution be given to the County Secretaries and published in the ILLINOIS MEDICAL JOURNAL.

Resolution: Moved by Dr. John that the Ogle County Medical Society consider favorably the letter from the State Medical Society in regard to the matter of increasing and unifying fees for professional service and that the chairman appoint a committee to consider the matter and report at this meeting. Motion carried.

The chairman appointed the folliwing committee to report on the bill. Drs. McEachern, Davis, Beveridge, Griffin and Hanes. The committee reported on due consideration, after which a short discussion followed. Motion made by Dr. Inks that we accept the committees report amended by Dr. John that the County Society provide suitable cards for framing fee bills for office and that the report of the bill be printed in

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The Pike County Medical Society met at Pleasant Hill, July 31st, 1919, with almost half of the total membership present. This is a live county society and has very few indifferent or inactive members. They take interest in the problems that confront the medical profession and try to keep posted by reading their Journals, attending their local and state societies, and where possible, take post-graduate work to keep step with the rapid, onward march of modern medicine. What else indicates so surely whether a society is a live one, or dead in its shell?

After a splendid chicken dinner, which the SouthPike men know how to give, the society met in the Baptist Church, and the scientific part of the program was given:

Dr. John McShane of Springfield took up the old, but ever-new problem of "Contagious Diseases and their Limitation." This was a paper presented by a specialist in his department, and many valuable hints

were gleaned that will bear fruit for the benefit of the physicians as well as the public.

Dr. C. E. Beaver, of Barry, then spoke of the County Tuberculosis Sanitarium. This county having voted for a tax to support such an institution, the Doctor appealed for the aid of the County Medical Society to assist in consummating this plan. There is no doubt but that the local society will help in all these beneficial enterprises for mankind's improvement. Such service is dignified, altruistic and humane, and elicits the best efforts of all.

The last paper by Dr. W. W. Kuntz of Barry was well recevied, on "Early Recognition of Tuberculosis." The subject was well covered, not only by the presentation of the gross appearances and symptoms, but also the microscopic and laboratory findings.

About four o'clock the society adjourned to the moving picture theatre, where Dr. Adkins of Springfield, presented the U. S. Government slides, treating of tuberculosis from every standpoint. These were very instructive and it is hoped that all county medical societies may avail themselves of the opportunity to view these films.

W. E. SHASTID, Secretary.

Personals

S. L. Thorpe, Capt. M. C., U. S. A., for the past year surgeon in charge of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat department, Department Hospital, Manila, P. I., has been discharged from the service and has resumed practice at Clinton, Illinois.

P. J. H. Farrell, Lieut.-Col., M. C., U. S. Army, lately in command of Base Hospitals Nos. 81 and 81a, A. E. F., France, returned to Chicago, Aug. 4. The family reunion included his sons, Capt. W. G. Farrell of the marines and Sergt. J. G. Farrell, late of the A. E. F. Dr. Farrell has resumed practice at 25 E. Washington Street, Chicago.

Dr. Frederick Christopher has returned from military service and resumed practice in surgery at 122 S. Michigan Boulevard, Chicago.

Dr. Charles R. Lockwood has returned from military service and resumed practice at Kankakee, Ill.

Dr. John A. Kappelman, Chicago, has been appointed full-time health officer of Canton, with a yearly salary of $3,300.

Dr. Haldane Cleminson, Chicago, who recently was paroled from the state penitentiary, Joliet, was reinstated as a practitioner of medicine by

the State Department of Registration and Education at its meeting, July 25.

Dr. Gertrude Moulton, Urbana, has been appointed assistant health officer and advistory physician for women students at the University of Illinois, Urbana.

Dr. Alice Barlow Brown, Winnetka, has returned after twenty-two months' service in France.

Dr. Antony Biankini, Chicago, one of the founders of the Jugo-Slav National League of America and president of the league for several years, has been decorated by the Jugo-Slav government with the Order of St. Sava.

George G. Davis, Lieut.-Col., M. C., U. S. Army, Chicago, arrived in New York from France on the Northern Pacific, August 12.

Dr. Charles A. Johnson, Barry, has been commissioned captain, M. C., Ill. N. G., and assigned to the depot organization of the Eighth Infantry.

Arthur E. Gammage, Capt., M. C., U. S. Army, Chicago, has returned from overseas, and has accepted an appointment as acting chief of the bureau of hospitals, under the department of health.

The Ricketts prize of $250, given by the University of Chicago each year to its students for the best research work in bacteriology, was divided between E. B. Fink and F. W. Mulson, both doctors of philosophy.

News Notes

-Failure to comply with the state law requirements by reporting a case of sore eyes in a baby is said to have resulted in Dr. Frank J. Zuehlke being fined $25 and costs, August 5.

-In order to increase its capacity for the production of antipneumonia serum, the laboratory of which Dr. Preston Kyes, professor of preventive medicine in the University of Chicago, is in charge, is to be enlarged at a cost of $5,000.

-Plans have been drawn for the Tazewell County Sanatorium for Tuberculosis which is to be erected on a site recently purchased in Mackinaw. The building is to cost about $45,000.

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A new maternity hospital is to be built in Chicago, at Forty-Seventh and Mozart streets, by Archbishop Mundelein. It will be known as Misericordia Maternity Hospital and will house 100 mothers and 150 infants. The initial expense of the institution will exceed $100,000.

The Medical Women's Club, at its August meeting, elected the following officers: President, Dr. Grace H. Campbell; Vice presidents, Drs. Cecelia P. Kimball and M. Osborne Lichner; secretary, Dr. Adelaide M. Tyrrell, and treasurer, Dr. Emma H. Salisbury Peterson, all of Chicago.

-Dr. Thomas Roberts, said to have been at one time a well known physician of Chicago, was arrested, August 16, by federal agents, charged with violation of the Harrison Narcotic Law, and held in bonds of $2,000. He is accused of having given narcotic prescriptions to drug addicts and of having himself made sales of habitforming drugs.

-The McLean County Tuberculosis Sanatorium at Bloomington was dedicated with impressive ceremonies, August 17. The principal address was delivered by Dr. George T. Palmer, Springfield, president of the Illinois Tuberculosis Association. The sanatorium has been erected at a cost of $50,000, and will accommodate 250 patients.

-The ninth lecture of the Graduate Summer Quarter in Medical Science at the University of Illinois, College of Medicine, was delivered, August 6, by Dr. Aaron Arkin, Ph.D., professor of pathology and bacteriology in the University of West Virginia, Morgantown, on "The Influence of Some Chemical Substances on Immunity Reactions."

-A postgraduate course of training in nursing is being held at the Illinois Training School for Nurses. The course lasts six weeks, with eight hours work each day for five days a week, and is being taken by eighteen women who hold executive positions in hospitals. Among the subjects are curriculum, planning of hospitals and nurses' residence, ethics of nursing and psychol

ogy.

-August 19, twenty-six officers of Northwestern University Base Hospital No. 12, held a

meeting in Chicago to form a peace-time organization to hold together the personnel of the unit which achieved such notable success in France. Payson L. Nussbaum, Major, M. C., U. S. Army, was elected president; Kellogg Speed, Lieut.-Col., M. C., U. S. Army, vice president, and Stanley W. Clark, Capt., M. C., U. S. Army, secretary-treasurer, all of Chicago.

-Mr. Robert Allerton of Chicago, July 30, offered to sell 1,200 acres of land and donate the proceeds to Piatt County if the supervisors would use the amount for the erection of a tuberculosis sanatorium. This offer, amounting to a donation of about $400,000, was offered by Mr. Allerton as a memorial to his father, the late Samuel W. Allerton of Chicago, and his friend, the late John Phalen. The gift was formally accepted by the supervisors of Piatt County, August 2.

-The Paris-Chicago Hospital Foundation has been incorporated in Illinois with offices in the Marquette Building, Chicago. The officers and directors of the association are: president, Dr. Charles H. Johnson; vice presidents, Dr. Truman W. Brophy and Mrs. E. C. Thomas; secretary, Mrs. Milan H. Hulbert, and treasurer, Mrs. Archibald Freer, and the medical members of the board of directors are: Drs. Edmund J. Doering, William H. Wilder, Thomas J. Watkins and Lewis L. McArthur.

-A new hospital to be known as the State Surgical Institute for Children is to be built on the site of the baseball park at Lincoln and Polk streets. There will be three other hospitals on this site, the Illinois Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary, a clinic for students of the Medical College of the University of Illinois, and the State Psychopathic Hospital. The land has already been bought for $400,000 and more than $1,500,000 has been appropriated to begin the construction of the hospital group.

-The Illinois State Department of Registration and Education has revoked the following physicians' licenses for the reasons given: Dr. Henry G. Meyer of Chicago for unprofessional and dishonorable conduct; Meyer at present is serving a sentence in the Cook County Jail on the charge. of pandering. Dr. Joseph M. Moses for seeking to obtain money and practice in his profession under false pretenses; he was arrested for this in the spring of 1917 and was sentenced to eight

een months in the penitentiary, and carried his case on appeal to the supreme court which, in June, 1919, sustained the action of the lower court; Dr. Moses is confined in the Joliet Penitentiary. He is said to have represented himself as an officer of the state board of health in connection with the case for which he was punished. Dr. John D. Young of Brookport, Ill., on the ground that he "is a person addicted to the use of morphin, opium, cocain or other drugs having a similar effect." Dr. Arthur L. Blunt of Chicago for unprofessional and dishonorable conduct in violation of the United States laws governing the use and dispensing of narcotic drugs. A previous action of the department revoking his license had been set aside by the court after the case had been carried to the supreme court of the state. Dr. Blunt at present is a prisoner in the federal penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.

Marriages

THOMAS DYER ALLEN, Chicago, to Miss Florence Waring See of Hamilton, Ohio, July 21.

RICHARD AMBROSE ROCHE to Miss Ruth Wilkie, both of Chicago, August 6.

JOSEPH MICHAEL BLAKE, Chicago, to Miss Cecile Mary Schug of Moline, Ill., July 12. WILLIAM C. SPANNAGEL to Mrs. Ella C. Nelson, both of East St. Louis, Ill., at Waterloo, Ill., July 1.

MINOR LEROY HARTMAN, Garden Prairie, Ill., to Miss Minnie Larish of Scranton, Pa., at Elgin, Ill., July 9.

WILLIAM HART ELMER, Rockford, Ill., to Miss Lenore Crompton of Beaconsville, P. Q., Canada, August 12.

Deaths

LAUREN A. STILLMAN, Chicago; Loyola University, Chicago, 1891; aged 62; died at his home, August 8, from arteriosclerosis.

SUMNER G. BERRY, Ashley, Ill.; Kentucky School of Medicine, Louisville, 1888; aged 52; died at his home, May 27, from accident.

JOHN LOUIS IRWIN, Chicago; McGill University, Montreal, 1897; age 59; died at his home in Maywood, Ill., July 31, from heart disease.

JOHN MARQUAND WAGNER, Newman, Ill.; Bellevue Hospital Medical College, 1878; aged 76; died at his home, June 10, from chronic diffuse nephritis.

WILLIAM DEADRICK NELSON, JR., Canton, Ill.; Rush Medical College, 1884; aged 62; a member of the Illinois State Medical Society; died at his home, July 28.

ELLEN ADELAIDE CURTIS RICHARDS, Streator, Ill.; College of Medicine and Surgery (Physio-Medical), Chicago, 1897; aged 51; a Fellow A. M. A.; died at her home, July 8.

ALGERNON M. SARGENT, Lincoln, Ill.; Medical College of Ohio, Cincinnati, 1880; aged 62; a Fellow A. M. A.; a director in the Lincoln National Bank; died at his home, August 3.

LYELL J. LESCHER, Mount Carmel, Ill.; Jefferson Medical College, 1877; aged 62; a member of the Illinois State Medical Society, died at his home, July 21, from ulcerative endocarditis following influenza.

EFFIE A. CURRENT, Danville, Ill.; Medical College of Indiana, Indianapolis, 1901; aged 44; at one time coroner of Kearney County, Neb.; died at her home, June 11, from tuberculosis of the lungs.

TOWNSEND SEELY CARPENTER, Hinkley, Ill.; Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, 1892; aged 54; a member of the Illinois State Medical Society; died at his home, July 8, from carcinoma of the stomach.

MARY ELIZABETH STANFORD, Chicago; Chicago Physio-Medical College, 1897; aged 53; professor of physiology in the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery; died at her home, August 14, from myocarditis.

THOMAS HAGARTY, East St. Louis, Ill.; St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1896; aged 64; a member of the Illinois State Medical Society; was run over and killed by an interurban car in East St. Louis, August 14.

FRANKLIN HARMON GODFREY, Bloomington, Ill.; Miami Medical College, Cincinnati, 1877; aged 71; a Fellow A. M. A.; president of the McLean County Medical Society from 1900 to 1902; died at his home. August 8, from cerebral hemorrhage.

OLIVER PERRY BRITTIN, CAPT., M. C., U. S. ARMY. Athens, Ill.; Barnes Medical College, St. Louis, 1908; aged 35; a Fellow A. M. A.; secretary of the Menard County (Ill.) Medical Society in 1914; who recently returned from overseas; while driving over a grade crossing near Springfield, Ill., in his automobile, July 2, was struck by a train and instantly killed.

OTIS JOHNSTON, Quincy, Ill.; Chaddock School of Medicine, Quincy, Ill., 1889; aged 52; a member of the Illinois State Medical Society and for several terms president of the Adams County (Ill.) Medical Society; local surgeon for the Burlington and Quincy, Omaha and Kansas City railroads; surgeon in charge of St. Mary's Hospital, Quincy; died at his home. July 21, from heart disease.

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