Arizona republican., 1911-06-26
American Medical ASsoCia-
 tion Meet at Los Angeles THREE DAYS SESSION
Preliminary Meeting Will Be Held Today-Program Provides for Adding Much to the Literature of the Healing Art.

Los Angeles. Cal. June 25.-This city is filling with eminent physi- clans from every state in the union who are coming to attend the sixty second annual convention of the American Medical association, which will convene on Tuesday, though there will be a preliminary business meeting tomorrow. The session proper will continue three days.
 This meeting will be the annual as sembling of the representatives of the national organization of the medi- cal profession. comprising over S0,- O00 members. and which has not been held on the Pacific coast since 1905. when the association met at Portland during the Lewis and Clark eXpOsi- ton.
 The American Medical association is composed of over 3,OOO county sO- cieties and of fifty-two state and territorial associations. The meeting will include the thirteen scientific sections. as well as the annual seS- sion of the house of delegates, the business and legislative body, com posed of representatives from all of the state associations. As the asso- citation in the siXtyt three years of it's existence has only met three times on the Pacific coast. it's coming meeting is welcomed by physicians and the public throughout the west.
 The first meeting will take place tomorrow. when the house of dele gates will be called to order at 10 a. m. by the president, Dr. William H. Welch of Johns Hopkins univer- sity. Baltimore This representative body consists of 150 members, repre- senting the fifty-two state and ter ritOrial associations. the thirteen sci entific sections, the medical depart ments or the army. navy and the public health and marine hospital services. This body will meet daily and will hear reports from the presi- dent and secretary of the association the board of trustees and the perma- nent councils. viz, the council on medical education, the council on pharmacy and chemistry. the council on health and public instruction.
 This body will review the work of the association for the past year and will transact all business. including Nllt fltNN4DA OL plliItlSs III lLS AOGA day session.
 The scientific work of the associ- ation will begin in the general meet ing in the Baptist auditorium on Tuesday morning. at which the ad- dresses Of welcome will be delivered by the president of the Los Angeles County Medical society and the Med icai society of the State of CalifOr- mia. H. w. Johnson. governor of Cal ifOrnia: George Alexander. mayor of Los Angeles. and others. At this meeting Dr. John R. Murphy. the president elect. will deliver his presi- dential address.
 Following the general meeting the sections will hold their scientific meetings in various auditoriums in the city. an average of about thirty scientific papers being read before each section. making between $50 and 400 scientific papers which will be presented and discussed by the lead ing physicians. surgeons and special ists Of the nation.
 Commercial and scientific exhibits. comprising pathological and scientific material contributed by medical col legeS. hospitals, laboratories and h. dividuals. will also attract many thou sands of visitors during the week This year, for the first time, the committee on scientific exhibit has offered prize of $20O for the best cartoons on sanitary questions. with a view to securing materiA for the education of the people on public health.
 The medical visitors to Los An geies do not intend to devote all of their time to scientific and profess sional questions Receptions. dinners. afternon teas. automobile and car riage drives. excursions to neighbOr- ing points of interest have been planned by the committees on enter tainment for the wives and daughters of visiting physicians.