Jarvis, Orin R. Witter, and Walter R. Steiner, of Hartford; Henry T. Bray, George H. Bodley, George W. Dunn, and Clifton M. Cooley, of New Britain; Benedict N. Whipple, of Bristol; William R. Miller, of Southington; William E. Caldwell, of West Suffield; Richard A. Outerson, of Windsor Locks; Thomas G. Alcorn, Thornton E. Vail, and Frank A. Simonton, of Thompsonville, and Dr. Franklin H. Mayberry, of East Hartford. In addition to these there are numerous doctors who have volunteered to help the various local boards in their examination of registrants. With this temporary loss in the number of our County members those who remain are striving to attend to their own work and to keep the practice together of those doctors who are away in their Country's service. It is the duty of these who remain to keep alive the interest in the City, County, and State Medical Societies, and also to do their part on the Selective Service of the Local, Medical Advisory, District Boards, and other activities in making the world free from the atrocities and barbarisms which threaten to overwhelm it. Our membership is now 242. The report of our County association is given in that of our State Secretary so we need not present any more statistical data. Among those who have died during the year we select for special mention the name of Dr. Everett J. McKnight. He was untiring in his interest in matters medical in the State and the part he played in all that was best in medicine by his personal efforts, at large and in legislative halls, among his fellow practitioners and the citizens of Connecticut, will not soon be forgotten. It will be most difficult to fill his place. Respectfully submitted, WALTER R. STEINER, Councilor. (c) Litchfield County, by Dr. Elias Pratt: (Owing to the illness of the Councilor of Litchfield County, no report was received in time for insertion here.-EDITOR.) (d) Middlesex County, by Dr. George N. Lawson: Mr. President and Members of the House of Delegates: The Middlesex County Medical Association has a membership of 48. At our semi-annual meeting the addresses, besides those from our home members, were given by three invited guests: Dr. E. K. Root spoke of the duties of physicians as individuals and as an organized group of trained citizens; Dr. C. C. Godfrey presented the work of the Committee on Sanitation and Medicine of the Conn. State Council of Defense; and Dr. E. Edwin Lewis, of New York, told us of some lessons the war is teaching. The question of holding monthly meetings of the County Association during the war was taken up and it was decided that it would not be wise to do so, as the Central Medical Society was planning to hold monthly meetings and to invite to them all the physicians of the County of all schools of medicine. At our annual meeting the invited speaker was Dr. J. W. Churchman who gave us a very interesting illustrated address on the care of the wounded in the present war. It was voted to endorse the Owen-Dyer bill, now before Congress, and letters were read from our senators and congressmen pledging their support. Two matters of special interest were taken up which I recommend to all the County Associations that have not already taken such steps. (1) It was voted to invite all physicians of the County of whatever school of medicine to attend our meetings. The days of bigotry in medicine are passing. War work is just now bringing us all together in common effort. The time seems to have come to hold out a cordial hand to all educated physicians. (2) Spurred on by the enviable example of Hartford County, though not expecting to match its results, a move was started and a committee appointed to collect and devise methods for the preservation of the medical records of the County, the history of its physicians and any interesting medical books and papers. Such a move should be made in each County or much valuable material will be lost. The Central Medical Society has held interesting monthly meetings, usually supplementing home talent with an address by some guest. ment. Our hospital again finds itself cramped for room and the corporators have organized a campaign to raise funds for its enlargeMore nurses are being trained and our nurses' home has been overflowing. A house has just been purchased adjoining the hospital property and it is being refitted as an additional home for the increasing number of nurses. Through the kindness of the visiting medical and surgical staff weekly clinics have been held at the hospital to which the physicians of the County have been invited. The hospital has offered free service in remedying minor defects which would prevent acceptance to the Army or Navy. This offer has been availed of in one instance. I think the majority of our physicians under the age of 55 have volunteered for the Medical Officers' Reserve Corps and 13 are now in some branch of the service; seven of these are members of our County association. Most of the rest of us have been more or less engaged in various kinds of war work at home. The physicians of Middletown and vicinity have organized to meet the needs of any local disaster. With the coöperation of the Red Cross and the Home Guards arrangements have been made for two or three temporary emergency hospitals with the necessary cots and other supplies and for ambulances and trucks. Respectfully submitted, GEORGE N. LAWSON, Councilor. (e) New Haven County, by Dr. William H. Carmalt: Mr. President and Members of the House of Delegates: The two regular meetings of the New Haven County Medical Association were held in Waterbury and New Haven on October 25th, 1917, and April 25th, 1918, respectively. The annual meeting in New Haven was characterized by the papers dealing exclusively with war subjects, viz.: "Trench Fever," by Dr. Wilder Tileston; "The War Menace of Pellagra," by Dr. Thomas M. Bull; "Shell Shock," by Dr. A. R. Diefendorf; "The Carrel-Dakin Treatment," by Dr. E. H. Arnold; "Gas Gangrene," by Dr. John W. Churchman. Four new members have been elected, and one added by transfer from another county. Seven have died, viz.: Drs. Henry E. Hungerford, Thomas J. Lalle and Caroline P. Conkey, of Waterbury; Dr. Edward W. Karrman, of Cheshire; Dr. Andrew W. Tracy, of Meriden, and Drs. Henry Fleischner, Adelaide Lambert and Edward M. McCabe, of New Haven. Four members have been dropped for non-payment of dues, and one has resigned, leaving a membership of 330. The Clerk reports: Amount collected in taxes laid May, 1917 Less 10% to County Association from amount paid State $762.00 72.00 $834.00 83.40 $ 750.60 $1,009.23 915.34 $ 93.89 719.87 $813.76 Total receipts, including balance from last report On deposit in savings banks Total balance April 17, 1918 The matters of professional interest of most importance relate almost entirely to the war, and as these will be treated of by those officially interested, anything I might say would be but a repetition. Suffice it here to state that so far as reported, 55 members are in the service of the government in one capacity or another out of a membership as above of 330. The various general hospitals throughout the county are all doing good work and are generally filled to their capacity, showing that the former prejudice against them is steadily and sanely disappearing. The tuberculosis sanatoria for incipient and moderately advanced cases also are well filled and increasing in size. In this connection I beg to refer to my report of last year in which it was stated that the tuberculosis department of the New Haven Hospital was approaching completion. It gives me pleasure to report its completion and occupancy by United States soldiers, and that the anonymity accompanying it has been removed. In 1909 Mr. Eli Whitney, then the President of the General Hospital Society of Connecticut, which is the corporate name for the New Haven Hospital, received, without previous intimation, a check for $300,000 from Mrs. Sarah L. Winchester of Menlo Park, California, stating she wished the Society to undertake the building of a tuberculosis hospital as a memorial to her late husband, William Wirt Winchester, and that it should bear his name. The Hospital Society was given a free hand as to location and character of buildings. Without burdening you with details, let me simply report that the development of her wishes has resulted in her giving, altogether, $1,325,000 for the building and endowment of, what is acknowledged to be, the most complete hospital for the treatment of advanced cases of tuberculosis in the country. It has a capacity for 100 patients of that class. A few weeks before the completion of the buildings the United States government asked to lease the hospital and grounds for the care of tuberculous soldiers. With the consent of Mrs. Winchester this was done and it is now occupied by United States soldiers known as United States Military General Hospital, No. 16. It is under the command of Major Alexius M. Forster, Medical Reserve Corps, at one time Acting Superintendent of the Gaylord Farm Sanatorium at Wallingford, and has at present over 200 soldier patients under treatment. These are nearly all in the incipient stages or, it may be, simply suspected cases under observation. Many are being returned to service. Most come from France though some are from cantonments and service on this side. It is a matter of gratification to the General Hospital Society that it was thus able to furnish to the government a hospital designed for the treatment of tuberculosis. and of congratulation by the Surgeon-General's office to find one so complete, fresh and ready at hand for occupancy. |