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medical treatment. He decried the emphasis which has been placed upon specific and sudden exertion and excitement as causes of decompensation, he asserting that bad housing, prolonged worry and bad hygienic conditions were far more commonly the cause of decompensation than isolated overtaxing episodes. Reference was made to the work of the Burke Foundation at White Plains, New York, where treatment of cardiac cases includes physical exercise, even of a vigorous character in selected cases, both in the form of work and games. A large part of the benefit resulting from the introduction of physical activities as a part of treatment is found in the stimulation of morale, patients thus failing to lapse into the chronic invalidism so often characterizing chronic cardiac disease. It was argued that an educational campaign, comparable to the tuberculosis campaign, is needed before the problem of cardiac disease can be adequately met. At the session held June 1st, the first paper was on "Maternity Aid and Infant Welfare," by Dr. W. P. Bowers, which was in large part a resumé of facts and arguments relating to maternity benefits and infant welfare, but it was also a plea for the desirability of state activities to better conditions. Emphasis was placed upon the influence of syphilis in causing stillbirths and infant mortality.

The second paper, by Dr. S. B. Woodward, on "Legislative Aspects of Vaccinaton," was a forcible presentation of the efforts which have been necessary in Massachusetts to secure and maintain adequate vaccination laws against the attacks of anti-vaccinationists. He gave numerous illustrations of the feeble arguments and lack of reason displayed by opponents of vaccination.

The third paper, by Dr. Goldthwait, on "Physical Education of Children and Physical Training in the Public Schools," emphasized the need of educating children along the lines of physical development. He commented upon the forty-six per cent. of defective men from Massachusetts in the late war, and clearly showed how such percentage could have been reduced had the men received proper health instruction in childhood.

Dr. Edsall, Dean of the Harvard Medical School, presented a paper on "Pre-medical Education," wherein he emphasized the value of a broad cultural basis for medical training. He argued that as medical students have so much work imposed upon them in the medical schools, they should master such elementary subjects as chemistry and biology before beginning the study of medicine.

The annual address, delivered by Dr. F. W. Anthony of Haverhill, at noon, June 1st, was on the subject, "Some of the Mutual Relations between the Physician and the Commonwealth," he arguing for a plan whereby the state might relieve physicians of a large proportion of the unremunerative work they now do, at the same time providing more adequate service. He felt that physicians would thus be saved many million dollars' worth of service to those who are unable to pay, and that the state would be able to provide such service at lesser expense.

The annual dinner was attended by approximately two hundred physicians. The Governor of the state, Governor Cox, gave an excellent address, wherein he urged physicians to take advantage of their close contact with the people to treat the public mind, to the end that the spirit of discontent, now so often apparent, might be dispelled. He felt that physicians could do much to impress people with the sense of civic duty. Mayor Peters of Boston lauded the influence of the State Society in public affairs, and also the services of the individual physicians, who had been connected with the various health agencies of the city. Dean Roscoe Pound, of the Harvard Law School, gave a brilliant address on "The Relation of Professional Men in General to the Public." Dr. Hubert Work, President of the American Medical Association, also gave a brief address.

One of the matters considered by the society was the desirability of discontinuing the custom of sending delegates to meetings of other state societies, because of apparent disinclination of some men to accept assignments. It was, however, the opinion of such members as expressed themselves that the custom was of distinct value, and no action was taken.

Owing to the meeting of the American Medical Association in Boston the week following the state meeting, no section meetings were held.

It should be added that your delegate was accorded all possible courtesy, every effort being made to render his visit both pleasurable and profitable.

Respectfully submitted,

C. FLOYD HAVILAND.

To New Hampshire: DR. SAMUEL M. GARLICK, Bridgeport.

Dr. Garlick reported his inability to attend last year's meeting through failure to receive proper notification, and also this year's meeting owing to the New Hampshire meeting being held on the same dates as the present meeting of the Connecticut Society.

(The Secretary telegraphed to the New Hampshire Medical Society the greetings of the Connecticut State Medical Society, and subsequently received a similar message of greeting from them.)

To New Jersey: DR. WILLIAM H. DONALDSON, Fairfield.

Dr. Donaldson reported his inability to attend the last meeting of the New Jersey Society through failure to receive proper notification, but that he planned to attend this year's meeting.

To Pennsylvania: DR. ROBERT L. ROWLEY, Hartford.
Mr. President and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates:

As the delegate from this Society it was both an honor and a pleasure for me to attend the meeting of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia last October.

The meeting was held at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel. The size of the gathering and the formalities employed remind one of the meetings of the American Medical Association. A further resemblance is in the extensive side shows in the form of com

mercial exhibits; further, in the fact that there are sectional meetings. There is what is known as the general section, the section on medicine, the section on surgery, the section on eye, ear, nose and throat diseases and the section on pediatrics. Each of these sections has its own chairman, secretary and executive committee and the sessions are held simultaneously.

Following the call to order by the President, Doctor Henry D. Jump of Philadelphia, there was invocation by His Eminence D. Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia. This was followed by the address of welcome by the Mayor of Philadelphia and this in turn was followed by the address of welcome by the President of the Philadelphia County Medical Society. That was followed by announcements pertaining both to the scientific session and to the social features.

Your delegate was given an opportunity to convey from this Society expressions of good fellowship as well as an interest in the scientific sessions which had been planned. So far as I observed Connecticut was the only state officially represented by a delegate.

The scientific papers were of a very high order and were ably discussed. A program of clinics at the different hospitals was arranged for the days preceding and following the scientific sessions. Upon the whole the meeting was an impressive one and your delegate is glad of the opportunity to record his pleasure in being able to attend.

Respectfully submitted,

ROBERT L. ROWLEY.

To Rhode Island: DR. WITTER K. TINGLEY, Norwich.

Dr. Tingley was not present; no report.

To Vermont: DR. SELDOM B. OVERLOCK, Pomfret.

Dr. Overlock reported his expectation to attend the last meeting but preventing circumstances rendered his attendance impossible.

REPORTS OF DELEGATES TO SPECIAL SOCIETIES.

To the Inauguration of President Angell at Yale University: DR. CHARLES C. GODFREY, Bridgeport.

Dr. Godfrey informally reported his attendance, and expressed his appreciation of the opportunity afforded him by the Society to participate in this event.

To the Second International Eugenics Conference: DR. WILLIAM H. CARMALT, New Haven.

Dr. Carmalt reported his attendance. Two papers seemed of especial interest, one showing that Common Law Marriages were recognized in some forty states; the other, relating to Inbreeding Marriages, showing that in certain South American tribes marriages between blood-relations, except parent and child and brother and sister, were considered most desirable and had resulted in no apparent deterioration in the offspring.

REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON ARRANGEMENTS.

DR. WILLIAM A. LAFIELD, Bridgeport, Chairman.

In the absence of Dr. LaField, Dr. Gold reported the arrangements for the entertainment of the Society as indicated on the program.

Voted, that the Secretary of the Connecticut State Medical Society be authorized to employ the necessary measures to secure an annual exchange of Delegates between the said Society and the Connecticut State Dental Society. Such exchange of delegates was considered advantageous for the promotion of relations between the two professionally related societies.

The following resolution, prepared in accordance with the instructions and vote of the Council, was presented to the House of Delegates for subsequent action :

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