We now have 257 members, or a gain of eleven over the number reported last year. Only one member has died during the year, Dr. Charles E. Taft, whose loss is deeply felt. His obituary will be published in the transactions so that the record of his life will thus be permanently recorded. One member has been dropped for non-payment of dues, while another has been suspended for the same cause, and 18 new members have been elected during the year. Respectfully submitted, WALTER R. STEINER, Councilor. Litchfield County, Dr. Elias Pratt, Torrington, Councilor. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The Litchfield County Medical Association held two meetings during the year. The semi-annual meeting was held in Litchfield, October 4th, 1921, in conjunction with the semi-annual meeting of the Connecticut State Medical Society. Professor Deming of Yale University gave an interesting paper on "Carcinoma of Bladder and Prostate." After supper a minstrel show was given by Litchfield local talent. The annual meeting was held on April 25th, 1922, at Winsted. This was an excellent meeting. The address of the President, Dr. J. G. Adams of Canaan, on "The Problems of the Rural Physician" was of especial interest. We have lost by death, Dr. John Calvin Kendall of Norfolk, a graduate of Yale, 1870, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, 1875. Dr. Kendall served as President of our Association, and was our Secretary for several years. His historical paper read at our sesqui-centennial meeting was worthy of note. Respectfully submitted, ELIAS PRATT, Councilor. Middlesex County, Dr. Charles E. Bush, Cromwell, Councilor. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The number of registered practitioners in Middlesex County remains substantially the same as reported last year, and the membership in our County Association is fifty-five (55), we having lost two and gained two during the year. The financial condition of the Association is in a satisfactory state. Our Fall meeting, held in Essex, was a most enjoyable one and those attending will not soon forget the excellent papers and delicious dinner served. The Spring meeting, held in Middletown, was a well attended, interesting one. The work of the Middlesex Hospital is growing steadily. During the past winter a new wing has been built which will increase the number of available beds to 110. The old obstetrical department has been remodeled and will, when completed, care for sixteen patients, and have two well equipped delivery rooms with complete sterilizing outfits. A new main operating room with modern, up-to-date equipment, a secondary operating room, and a dark operating room, as well as adequate quarters for the medical and surgical staff will greatly facilitate the work of the hospital. Modern X-ray equipment in a well arranged suite of rooms, a fluoroscope, and a working supply of radium are other features worthy of mention. An elaborately equipped kitchen, diet kitchens, and rapid service elevators will naturally add to the better feeding of the patients and nursing staff. The Journal Club, composed of members of the medical and surgical staff, has held weekly meetings which have been well attended and instructive. Our midweek hospital clinic continues to attract the interest and attendance of the staff, and contributes greatly to the better study of medical and surgical cases. The old lines dividing the principal schools of medicine are practically non-existent in our county, all working together in harmony for the general good, while a spirit of good-fellowship seldom equaled prevails among us. Respectfully submitted, CHARLES E. BUSH, Councilor. New Haven County, Dr. William H. Carmalt, New Haven, Councilor. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The New Haven County Medical Association held its two regular meetings during the past year, the semi-annual at Waterbury, on October 20th, 1921, and the annual on April 27th, 1922, in New Haven; the attendance in each was quite large. At the semi-annual meeting the scientific program consisted of President Robert E. Peck's address on three hundred cases of arterial hypertension, a paper on Infection with the organism of Vincent by Dr. Creighton Barker of New Haven, and an address with lantern slide illustrations by Professor H. H. Hazen of the Georgetown University of Washington, D. C. At this meeting seven new members were elected to the Association. At the annual meeting the scientific program consisted of papers by Dr. Lawlor of Waterbury on Ectopic Gestation, a method of treating fractures of the humerus, by Dr. Moriarty of Waterbury, and on Chronic Hypertension, by Dr. Frank E. Meara of New York City. Major Wilmerding of the Medical Corps of the United States Army gave an informal talk on the functions of the Medical Reserve Corps. Three new members were elected. The total membership of the Association is 349. The clerk of the county has collected $1,387.00 of which $170.10 was dues in arrears. He has paid $1048.50 to the Treasurer of the State Medical Society, has expended $173.28 for county expenses and has $821.12 balance on hand, an increase of $165.70 over last year's balance. Three members have died, Dr. O'Hara of Waterbury, Dr. Maguire of Derby, and Dr. William S. Russell of Wallingford. Dr. Russell was graduated from the Yale Medical School in 1880, served the following year as interne in the New Haven Hospital and then settled for practice in Wallingford. From this time until his death the writer had the opportunity to know Dr. Russell as student and practitioner and he cannot permit an honorable professional association of nearly half a century to go by without expressing his appreciation of respect and affection of a high minded career and regret at its severance. Two years ago the obituary notice of his son, Dr. Donald G. Russell, was recorded in the archives of this society by his chief overseas, Dr. Joseph Marshall Flint, where he died in the service of his country. His death was a severe blow to his father and undoubtedly had much to do with the nervous breakdown which preceded his death by several months. The hospitals are functioning actively. The Meriden Hospital has made a notable addition to its building of a wing containing 50 beds at an expense of over $400,000: the total capacity is now 106 beds. This amount was raised by private subscription indicating a noteworthy liberality for charitable purposes on the part of the citizens of Meriden. Mention was made in this report of last year of the improvement in the service of Grace Hospital in New Haven. Your councilor takes pleasure in reporting the completion of the private room annex, with the increased laboratory facilities required in modern hospital service. The Hospital of St. Raphael is having a marked increase in service, especially on the surgical side. The New Haven Hospital since it has formally completed its union with the Yale School of Medicine has taken on a new life. It has become an integral part of this department of the University and received many benefits incident thereto in large financial grants from the General Education Board and the Sterling bequest. It has been able from funds supplied by Yale University to start the erection of a private room building for fifty-two beds; it has built chemical laboratories in immediate connection with the medical and pediatric services; it has established a complete cystoscopic suite for the genito-urinary service and has completely built over the two surgical wards on the East side and added a story for the temporary use of the pediatric service until the Fitch fund accumulates sufficiently to make that bequest available, and is proceeding to the rehabilitation of the West wards in the same lines with the East; these are built over to fill all the requirements of modern up-to-date aseptic construction. The "Sterling Hall" of Medicine of Yale University, taking the place of the present Medical School building on York Street, is to be built on Cedar Street opposite the hospital, is to include the whole block bounded by Cedar, Broad, Palmer and Rose Streets and Congress Avenue, this including the building occupied by the New Haven Dispensary, completing the plans, but of a much greater scope, contemplated and begun by Dean Smith of the Medical School and the late Professors James K. Thacher and John Slade Ely in 1900-1. The design of the Architects of the Sterling Hall of Medicine includes an amphitheatre of some 250 seats sufficiently large to accommodate the meetings of the Connecticut State Medical Society and if the intentions of the Medical Faculty are carried out the next annual meeting of this Society may be held there; a consummation devoutly to be wished. Respectfully submitted, WILLIAM H. CARMALT, Councilor. New London County, Dr. Charles C. Gildersleeve, Norwich, Councilor. Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates: The membership of the New London County Medical Society is now seventy-eight. We have admitted four new members: Charles Kaufman, M.D., New London. Helen Burton Todd, M.D., New London. Max M. Teplitz, M.D., Norwich State Tuberculosis Hospital. |