mittee took occasion to explain to the members of the Public Health and Safety Committee the nature of the bills and the position of the medical profession on the subjects. All the bills opposed by your Committee were rejected. Respectfully submitted, P. H. INGALLS, Chairman. (7) REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL EDUCATION. CHARLES A. TUTTLE, Chairman. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The twenty-sixth annual report of the Examining Board and your Committee on Medical Education will have at least the merit of brevity. The Board has held seven meetings during the year and has considered, digested, and decided many and important questions. Three examinations have been held, according to law, each extending throughout two days. There have been examined sixty-three applicants for certificates of qualification in General Practice, of whom forty-four, or sixty-nine and eight-tenths per cent., have been found qualified and to whom certificates have been granted. Either through war service or death several communities in the state during the year have been bereft of their regular medical attendance. It has given the Examining Board much satisfaction to be instrumental in supplying this need. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES A. TUTTLE, 2 Secretary. (8) REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON DR. ELI B. IVES, Chairman. Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: Your Committee on Scientific Work beg leave to submit the following report. We have met three times during the year and as a result arranged the programmes for the semi-annual and annual meetings, which are published elsewhere in the Proceedings. Respectfully submitted, ELI B. IVES, Chairman. (9) REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION. DR. WALTER R. STEINER, Chairman. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The Committee on Publication was able to publish the Transactions for 1918 within thirty-seven days after the annual meeting. This was wholly due to the energy of our efficient Secretary. This year, Mr. Keogh, the Librarian of Yale University, will present a paper on the Medical Libraries in Connecticut, and will give a list of the files of medical periodicals which the libraries of our state possess. This list will necessitate more pages for our coming Transactions, but its value is so apparent to the medical investigator in Connecticut, that I am sure no member of our Society will begrudge us these additional pages. Dr. James F. Rogers, at the spring meeting of the New Haven County Medical Association, presented a paper on the Epidemiology of Influenza in Connecticut, which that Association has asked the State Society to print in their Transactions. We cordially recommend this action, as the paper has real historical value. Respectfully submitted, WALTER R. STEINER, Chairman. (io) REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON HONORARY MEMBERS AND DEGREES. DR. SAMUEL M. GARLICK, Chairman. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: After mutual conference and consideration of the names of suggested candidates, the Committee beg leave to report, we recommend that no additions to the Honorary Membership be made this year. Respectfully submitted, SAMUEL M. GARLICK, Chairman. (11) REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON A DR. FRANK K. HALLOCK, Chairman. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: Owing to the unsettled conditions prevailing in the state and throughout the country it has not seemed wise to appeal to the Legislature this season for funds to establish a new institution and the Committee has nothing to report. Respectfully submitted, FRANK K. HALLOCK, Chairman. (12) REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON STATE FARM FOR INEBRIATES. F. H. BARNES, Chairman. Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: Your Chairman of the Committee on a State Farm for Inebriates did not call a meeting of the Committee during the past year for the simple reason that the question of a dry country after July 1, 1919, would undoubtedly make another State Farm for Inebriates unnecessary. The present equipment will handle the narcotic end of it very nicely. Your Chairman also reports that the State Farm now in existence is doing good work with increased equipment. Would recommend that this committee be discharged. Respectfully submitted, F. H. BARNES, Chairman. (13) REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL EDWARD W. GOODENOUGH, Chairman. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The State Board of Health has an appropriation for a Bureau of Child Hygiene for two years of $25,000. With part of this money it is planned to begin, this summer, a general inspection of the sanitary condition of our school buildings. The normal schools at Danbury, New Britain, and Willimantic have each had this year for the first time a teacher in personal and school hygiene. Next year, the teaching in this branch will be broadened. It is planned to furnish instruction to these pupil teachers in some degree commensurate with the importance of the subject. In Bridgeport, under Dr. Walter H. Brown as Health Officer, the Department of Health has an excellent school force. In this branch of the work is employed one full time physician, one supervisor of nurses, sixteen school nurses, three full time dentists, two supervisors of hygienists, one assistant supervisor of hygienists, and twenty-five hygienists. When such a machine gets in good working order, I feel sure the other cities of the state will be glad to make an appropriation to accomplish like results. Under the Waterbury Board of Health, we have two dental hygienists, one public health nurse, five school nurses, and two part time medical inspectors. In New London there is one inspector and two school nurses. In Middletown there is one inspector and one school nurse. In Waterbury, your Chairman has examined some 1,200 first grade children. We are satisfied that such an examination should be made and record kept by the School Department of all children on entrance to public schools or within as short a time afterward as possible. This Committee properly is a Committee on Americanization. In no state in the Union is there more need of development in cleanliness and school hygiene than in our own state. EDWARD W. GOODENOUGH, Chairman, (14) REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON D. CHESTER BROWN, Chairman. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: Your Committee on National Legislation attended one of the meetings of the Council on Education but was unable to be present at the Conference held in Chicago on March 3d. The study of the report of the conference indicates that it was one of the most interesting that has been held. Dr. George Blumer was in attendance and read a most interesting paper on the second day of the conference, taking up the desirability of changing the type of written examinations. It is possible that he may give us some report later. It is impossible to properly discuss the subjects in a brief report as the opportunity presented to medical educators was such as we have never before had in this country and gave opportunity to compare the recent product of the medical schools with the older ones with their years of practical experience. The papers by the acting chairman, Dr. John Dodson, by Dr. N. P. Colwell, Dr. H. D. Arnold, and Dr. A. R. Warner, were |