The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-09-02
DOCTORS START A LIBRARY
NEW WHAYEN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION
 IN ITS NBW QUARTERS.


 creased Room-An Excellent Medical
 Library Being Gathered-Association'
 Honorable History of Finety-four Years
 Its Present Officers.
 The members of the New Haven Med- ical association held their regular monthly meeting last night at their new assembly rooms over the Young Mems Institute on Chapel street. Con- trary to the statement in an evening paper there was no continuation of last springs inquiry into the alleged viola tions of the rules of the society. That matter was amicably settled long ago, as the misunderstanding was satisfac- torily explained and the whole matter relegated to the waste basket.
 At last evenings session Assistant Medical Examiner Gustave Eliot read an interesting paper on "A Physicians Library" and several able discussions on the subject followed To repre- sentative of this paper pr. Max Mail- house made the following statement last night about the society: "Our association has been in exist ence ninetyfour years, and since its organization meetings have been held generally at the homes of members. hut in late years, after our numbers became too numerous to meet at one another's houses, we have met, in some cafe or other public place, but for q, haY nf rxynh hox FoI+ %l.e r of quarters of our own. To-day our association has seventy-eight enrolled. members and is constantly increasing, Next month we shall take in a number more.
 Beside the growth of the society there has been demand for modern medical library, for which we previous ly had no accommodation. We have established now good nucleus for such medical library and have prom ises for very valuable additions. We have on hand eighteen or twenty cur- rent medical journals embracing the whole range of scientific and contempo- raneous medical journals. These really will form valuable part of our library, and will receive more attention prob- ably than anything else that we have. They will keep physicians posted on what is going on in all the depart ments of medicine. Each member will have a key so that he can come in at any time to use the library. Contribu- tions in the way of books will be iden- tified by means of unique and ar- tistic book-plate.
 Our organization practically repre- sents the medical profession in New Haven. It has always been the cham pion of what has been for the best interests of the city from a medical point of view. In days gone by when New Haven was one of the large cities of the country the profession in this city was one of the most prominent in the country, and many of its members took prominent part in the proceedings of the American Medical association. One year this city was favored with the yearly meeting of the association.
 We, therefore, consider that it is both timely and proper that we should take this step, which we anticipate is but the beginning of much more that is coming"
 The officers of the association are: Dr. J. H. Townsend, president; pr. R. A. Mcdonnell, Dr. M. c. O'Connor, firts vice presidents; Dr. B. l.. Lam- bert, second vice president; Dr. c. A. Futile, secretary; Dr. A. N. Alling, treasurer. The two last named gem tlemen with Dr. Mailhouse as chair man compose the committee in charga of the acquiring and equipment of the rooms and foundation of the library.
 The rooms are furnished tastefully and are cheerful and inviting. Soft rugs cover the floors, excellent pictures and engraving adorn the walls and the tables and bookcases are of the best.
 At the close of each monthly meet ing the doctors sit down to an informal banquet and have a jolly time together. Their next gathering will be the first Wednesday of October.