Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-03-27

Will Assemble in Washington in About .
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THREE MEDICAL CONVENTIONS
Will Assemble in Washington in About .
Month.
sUPERISTESDESrs OF INSANE AsyLuMs, STATE
BOARDS OF HEALTH AND THE AMERICAN MEDI-
CAL ASSOCIATION WILL ALL SEND DELEGATES,
WHO WILL BE WELL CARED FOR.
During the latter part Of April and the first
Of May three conventions of considerable I'M
portance to the medical profession will hold
their annual sessions in this city. There will
be the American Medical Association, the ma
tional conference of state boards of health and
the superintendent Of insane asylums.
sUPERIxTExDExTs OF INSANE AsYLUMs.
The first convention to meet will be the su-
perintendents ofinsane asylums, which is proba-
bly, one of the most important associations to the
medical profession. This convention will be
composed Of superintendents Of asylums in the
United States and Canada, and while the MEM
bership of the organization numbers m ore than
100 it is like that not more than IS will come to
Washington.
Dr. W. w. Godding, superintendent Of st.
Elizabeths. has charge Of, all the arrangements
and is busy preparing to entertain the super
intendents, who will be the guests Of the city
for a week.
The session will be held in the parlors of the
Arlington Hotel, where the delegates will re-
main during their stay in the city. The first
session will be held Tuesday, April 2S Last
year the annual meeting was held at Niagara
and DIR. Godding was the retiring president.
This year DR.. ii. p. Stearns of Hartford is the
retiring president. 1t has long been the Gus
tom of the society to elect the retiring vice
president to the highest Office and if that pre-
cedent is followed this year DIR. Daniel Clark
Of Toronto will be elevated to the presidency,
as he is now the vice president of the society.
The society meets in q different city each
year and discusses the best methods of the care
and treatment Of the insane. An effort will be
made at the coming meeting to hold the ses-
sions in this city every two years During
their stay the delegates will be entertained by
DR.. Godding and they will visit all places Of
interest. After their own convention adjourns
most Of the delegates will remain here to meet
the doctors who attend the other conventions.
STATE BOARDS OF HEALTH.
About the close of this convention the dele
gates of the state boards of health will assemble
at the Ebbitt House, where accommodations
have already been secured for them. A new
feature Of this convention is that the Wash
ington health department will be recognized as
state board and will have q voice in the con-
vention.
DR.. Townshend, the health officer, and Chief
Clerk Cooper McGinn are already hard at work
III making preparations for the meeting.
The present officers of the association
are DR.. ]. n. Mccormack of Bowling
Green, Ky.. president; DR.. c. o. Probst of
Columbus, Ohio, secretary. and DIR. Henry b.
Baker OF Lansing, Mich, treasurer. 1t is not
yet known how many delegates will be here,
but almost every state in the Union will, it is
thought, be represented.
THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS.
The largest and probably the most important
gathering of the kind will be the American
Medical Association. at which there will prob
ably be something like 1.500 delegates in at
tendance. This will be the forty-second annual
meeting of the association and the delegates
will be handsomely entertained by the mem
bers of the Washington Medical Society. The
first sessions will be held in Albaugh Opera
House. beginning Tuesday, May 5, at II M,
anu continue four days.
Those who occupy seats as delegates receive
their appointments from permanently organ
lied state medical societies and such societies
as are recognized by representation in their
respective state societies. as well as from the
medical department of the army and navy and
the marine hospital service of the United States
Each society has the privilege Of sending one
delegate for every ten of its regular members
and one for every additional fraction Of more
than half that number, provided the number
does not exceed the ratio Of one in ten Of the
resident physicians who may have signed the
code Of ethics Of the association.
ADDRESSES TO BE MADE.
Addresses to the convention will be made by
Drs. Z. l.. Shurley Of Detroit, Mich, on Gen
eral Medicine;" Dr.. Joseph NJ. Matthews of
Louisville. Ky, on General Surgery" and
DIR. W. L. Schenck Of Topeka. Kan, ON State
Medicine" An interesting feature will be the
meeting OF sections, which will be held at the
different halls in the city. Under the rule5 the
chairman OF each section has to prepare an
address on the recent advancement in the
hra ncbel heloDpiDy Tn his seetiOr iucludipy
suggestions in regard 10 improvements in
methods of treatment. and present il to the Sec
ton over which he presides on the first day of
the annual meeting. These papers, which are
always OF interest, are to be OF such length that
they can be read in forty minutes.
THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS.
The sections and the presiding officers
be as follows:
Practice of medicine and physiology-Dr.
Victor C.Vaughn, chairman. Ann Arbor, Mich. ;
DR.. Geo Dock. secretary, Galveston. Texas.
| Obstetrics ana diseases of women-Dr. Chas.
/ l.. Reed. chairman. Cincinnati DR.. Howard A.
Kelly, secretary, Baltimore.
Surgery and anatomy-Dr. Theodore A. Nc
Graw, chairman, Detroit. Mich; DR.. W. E. b.
| Davis secretary. birmingham Ala
State medicine-Dr. b. Plunket, chairman,
Nashville; DIR. Benz. Lee, secretary, Philadel-
phia.
Opthalmology-Dr. Leartus Conner, pres
| ident, Detroit; DR.. L. E. Murrell, secretary,
Little Rock. Ark.
Larynology and otology-Dr. Carl Setter,
chairman. Philadelphia; DIR. A. 3. Thrasher,
| secretary, Cincinnati.
Diseases OF chiidren-Dr. Vim. Perry Watson,
Chairman, Jersey City; DIR. Hobart A. Hare,
| secretary, Philadelphia.
Oral and dental surgery-Dr. E. 8. Tabor,
chairman. Chicago; DR.. Henry ". Morgan,
| secretary, Nashville.
Neurology and medical jurisprudence-Dr.
| I. d. Crothers, chairman, Hartford; DIR. Harold
n Mover. secretary, Chicago.
Dermatology and syphilography-Dr. L.
Duncan Daikley. chairman, New York city; DR..
| W. t. Corlett, secretary, Cleveland, Ohio.
| Materia medica and pharmacy-Dr. F. Wood
| bury, chairman, Philadelphia; Dr. G. w.
| Ewing. secretary, Nashville.
/ DIR. ID. &. Patterson. the coroner Of this CITY,
1 is chairman of the committee of arrangements
and DIR. G.. III. A. kieiEschmidt is secretary. As
I chairman Of that committee DR.. Patterson has
had his hands full. but all the committees have
| been announced and conditions are extremely
! favorable for an exceptionally interesting
1 meeting.
| LOCAL COMMITTEES.
| The committees are as follows:
| Reception-Drs Lincoln (charman), Bryan,
Fry, A. Heger, U.S.A-: ]. T. johnson, Loring,
Mackall, Marmion, Peter, A. c. Patterson,
| Rose, L. X. Stone, I. c. Smith, Walsh.
Place OF meeting of sections-Drs Lovejoy
! Chairman, Beatty, Bayne, Callan, Hill, d. II.
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