The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-22

"The law regulating the practice oi
 medicine has been amended so as tC
 place the examination of all appli'
 cants in the hands of the State Board I The State Board is further empowered to establish reciprocal relations with oth CT State Board of Examiners, and also to issue certificates without ex- animation to surgeons of both the ] army and navy and to the marine hos pital service"
 The fact that attention of the world was called to the extermination of tu- l berculosis was noted. The State leg l islature passed a bill at its last session | for the establishment of a state sani- tarium for the treeatment of tubercu- | losis, and the bill provides for the appointment of a Board of Trustees by | the Governor whose duty shall be the | location and establishment of this hos ppital to elect officers and to complete the machinery for the running and proper conduct of the hospital This the Governor in has wisdom has seen fit to postpone"
 The President here interjected that the address was written before the meeting and he had no inkling that appointments would be read out by the governor in his welcoming ad- dress.
 The State Association has lost sew eral valued members during the past year. pr. R. F. Michel, of Montgomery, pr. A. A. McKittrick of Evergreen. and Dr. J. B. KiIlibrew of Mobile. pr. Mc- Lean Pitts of Selma were all tenderly mentioned. The highest tribute was paid to pr. Killibrew of Mobile who was killed last August in an automobile accident in Mobile.
 The president sad of him: Now that the curtain has been drawn over this splendid life. we have lost one of the most brilliant members which the association has ever had.
 The report of the senior vtce-presi- dent. Dr. Andrew J. Coley, of Alexan- der City was simply tabulation con- taining complete statistics of the pre- sent number of members and non members of the association in every county in the state; the increase m membership; the decrease in member- ship; the average attendance at meet ings; the applications for examination; the certificates granted to applicants ana those refused, together with tab ulated list of illegals.
 Secretary Bakers Report.
 The report of the Secretary of the Association, Dr. J. N. Baker or Mont romery showed that the secretary mas sent the resolution passed at Mobile at the last meeting or the state Asso- ciation to all of the forty SIX lnsur- ance companies in the state. The res olntion referred to was to the enect that no examination for life insurance would be made by physician TOT less than s5. The secretary's report snow sd that of the forty six companies 10 whom the resolution was sent replies ware received from nineteen. or this r,,,,her sixteen paid the fee. while the ramaininR three did not state what tsas they would pay. The remaining comDanies did not reply to the CIT cuiar. ., ..-o,s.ars from the book of the living 10 he hook of the dead" pr. Michel or HTnntvomerv, pr. McKittrick of Ever eraan pr. Kilibrew of Mobile and pr. Pitts of Selma were mentioned. The Secretary paid a very high tribute to tbe character of pr. Killibrew of Mo bile. saying of him. "He was the mo- blest Roman of them all"
 The Secretary regretted that the Committee on Arrangements had been unable to secure the customary rate of Is fare from the railroads of the state. He said that while much time had been spent on this end of the ar arrangements, the committee could not get the railroads to take any concerted action in the matter.
 The reports of the Treasurer and of the Publishing Committees followed All of the reports were referred to the Board of Censors of the Association.
 Miscellaneous business was next on the program. pr. Riggs of Btrming- ham in a resolution moved to make certain changes in Section { of the constitution and that the Board of Censors be requested to report on, the proposed change at the session tomor- row morning. The motion was sec onded by pr. McAdory.
 A lively discussion followed. as 1t is