PAPERS: TOLLAND COUNTY. The Rockville House, Rockville, April 15, 1919. Importance of the Recognition of Vesiculo-Prostatitis by the General Practitioner. Dr. Charles S. Stern, Hartford. Medical and Surgical Lessons of the War. Dr. John E. Flaherty. PAPER: WINDHAM COUNTY. Putnam Inn, Putnam, April 17, 1919. Some Surgical Aspects of the Sequelae of Influenza. Dr. Clarence Crane, Boston. PAPERS: LITCHFIELD COUNTY. Hotel Winchester, Winsted, April 22, 1919. Experiences in Service. Drs. Turkington, Adam and Woodward. William J. Delaney, M.D., Naugatuck. THOMAS M. BULL, M.D., Naugatuck. Dr. William J. Delaney, the subject of this sketch, was born in Peterborough, Ont., June 11, 1865. He received his early education in the schools of his native town and later at St. Michael's College, Toronto. He was graduated in medicine at McGill University in 1889. He served one year in the Polyclinic Hospital in New York, and in 1891 opened an office in Naugatuck, where he continued to practice till the time of his death and built up a large and lucrative practice, specializing to a considerable extent in obstetrics. He married in June, 1897, Katherine O'Callahan, of Waterbury, Conn. They had four children, of whom the two older boys are now in the service of their country. He was a member of many societies including the Knights of Columbus and Elks. He was a member of the Naugatuck Board of Education for fifteen years, serving both as its secretary and president. He was at one time Secretary and, later, President of the Naugatuck Medical Society; member of the Waterbury Medical Society; member, and, in 1909, President, of the New Haven County Medical Society; also member of the State and American Medical Associations, and was always very faithful in attendance at the various meetings of these societies. Personally, I knew the Doctor very well and, in the course of the twenty-seven years that we practiced side by side (for our offices were but a stone's throw apart) had only the pleasantest of relations with him. We differed in politics, religion and philosophy, and we never took any particular pains to minimize the differences. But his politics were democratic enough to admit that his party might sometimes be wrong and the opposition right. His religion was catholic enough to not only admit but earnestly maintain the thesis that there might be hope for others than those of his immediate household of faith; and his philosophy was broad enough, even while he was convinced of |