The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-11-13
Services as President of
Louisiana State Health
Board Recognized.
DR.. MCGUIRE NEWTON MADE
SECOND VlCE-PRESIDENT
Assistant Health Commissioner
Freeman Heads Section
on Public Health.
MEDICAL CONVENTION ENDED
Secretary Scale Harris Says 1t Has
Rcen Greatest Association
Has Ever Held.

On nomination by tho councillors. DR..
Oscar Bowling, OF Shreveport. La. was
YESTERDAY morning elected president of
the southern Medical Associations: DR..
X {. Dorr. Of Batesvlllc, Ark. FIRST
rice-presidcnt, and Dr. McCuire New
ton Of Richmond. second v,ce-president.
Inc nominations nf the councillors wero
reserved without question. and tho three
oHicers Elected by acclama;ion. IT was
stated that politics had not entered int n
the deliberations Of tho councillor, and
that they had been guided solely by.
the interests Of the association and the
Htness OF tho men upon whom thcjf.
selection fell.
RECOGNITION OF SERVICES
As STATE HEALTH OFFICER
DR.. bowling is one OF the larger
hgurea represented in the membership
VI ,ne association, recognition Of his
services as public healtI, officer hay-
Ing been accorded in all parts of tho
country. He Is president OF the State
Board OF Health OF Louisiana, and is
graduate OF Vanderbilt University.
Originally. his family came from vir-
ginia, and he was born in ..laba ma.
After finishing his course al Wander
bilt, &c studied abroad several years.
and ihen settled down as a specialist
IN cy+. ear and nose diseases. His
practice quickly brought him recogni-
tion. and he WAS elected president OF
his state Board of Health. and Is now
In charge OF the Louisiana State health
train. consisting OF three cars filled
with permanent exhibits of the work
done In Louisiana and adjoining States
In the fight against malaria and other
pestilential diseases endemic, or oc-
caslonally epidemic, In that section OF
the country.
m f.ad n n
DR.. Dowltng referred at some length
tosJiic evil of puterf medicines, ii cellar.
ing that something must behdonc 10
regulate the sale of proprietaries. He
asked the cooperation OF the medical
profession In the fight on patent medi-
cine. the sale Of which he regarded as
one of the things most inimical TO the
ethics OF the profession of medicine.
ALLEN w. FREEMAN HEADS
SECTION on PUBLIC HEALTH
Section officers were elected an fol-
lows: Public Health. DR.. Allen w.
Freeman. OF Etich:nond. assistant state
health commissioner of Virginia. chair
c.. vicc-chairman. and DR.. w. S.
Leathers. Of University of Missls-
sippi. secretary.
Eye. Ear, Nose and Throat: DIR. ].
II. Green, of .Asheville. y. c.. chairman:
DIR. L. II. Cary. OF Dallas, Tex. vice
CnaiTTIft, ana Dr l. w. MOpFc, OF
Huntington. w V. secretary.
Surgery: DR.. Isadore Conn. of New
Orleans, chairman; DR.. John II. I:lack-
burn. of Bowling Green. Ey.. vice
chairman. and DR.. r. Webb Griffith, OF
Asheville. y. c.. secretary.
Medicine: DIR. w. H. Deaderick. OF
Hot Springs. Ark. chairman; DR.. c. l..
Minor. of 9sheville, y. c.. vice chair
man. anG DR.. Stuart Roberts, of At
lanta, secretary.
DR.. Scale Harris. secretary-trcasurer
continues in office for two years more.
Dallas. as announced in this paper
YESTERDAY, was selected as the city for
the convention in 1915. The council
ors and the board of trustees remain
until further appointments are made
as follows: DIR. H. II. Martin, chair
man. Savannah. Ga; DR.. w. S. Ieathers.
University. Miss; DR.. Louis -Abramson.
Shreveport. La: DR.. w S. Thayer Bal
ham, =. c.; DIR. r. II. McGlnnis, Jack
sonvillc, Fla; DIR. Robert Wilson. Jr.,
Charleston. S. c.: DIR. ]. Shelton Hors-
Icy. Richmond. Va: DIR. L. S. McMurty
Louisville. Ky: DR.. Edward II. Cary.
Dallas. Tex: DIR. J. n. Baker, Mont
gomery. Ala; DR.. J. A. Crisler Mem
phis, Tenn: Dr. C. =. Meriwether,
Little Rock. Ark; DR.. 4. r. Stands,
Washington. -. c.; DIR. G.. c. Rodgers,
Elkins. w. Va; DIR. Mirington Smith,
Oklahoma, Okla.
Board OF trustees--Dr. RI. III. Martin.
Savannah, Ga; DIR. b. L.. Wyman. Bir-
Ala; DR.. G.. C. Savage, Nash
willie. Tenn; DR.. w. w. Crawford,
Hattiesbury. Miss; Dr. Isadore Dyer,
New Orleans, La: DR. James NJ Jack
son, Miami. lila.
the medal for scientific research was
for the third time awarded TO DR.. C. G.
Bass.
GREATEST MEETING
ASSOCIATION HAS HELD
The convention which has just closed
is regarded, said DR.. Scale Harris. sec
the Southern Medical Journal. as the
greatest meeting the association ly,s
held in the eight years of it's history
"All the members" he said. arc de-
lighted. not only with the meetings,
but as we'll with the hospitality of
Richmond and Virginia doctors. 1t
took six generations of education, Gull
turc and refinement to produce such
as tho Virginia doctors arc
to-day, and they deserve every tribute
which can be paid to them Without
any question, this has been the finest
convention have ever seen. and
want to pay tribute 20 the press for
tho way in which IL handled the meet
inSs and tho convention as a whole
VIC have boon especially pleased with
the hotel arrangements. and must
say that think the Jefferson Hotel to
be the finest convention hotel I navc
ever seen, and your other hotels were
Just as good In the courtesics they
paid TO their doctor guests. And I'm
speaking OF the press again, I can say
that nowhere that have ever been
have the pnpe4s given such accurate
accounts Of our moetings,''
COL. AND MRS. GORGAs LOUD
~ PRAISE OF RICHMOND
Colonel W. G.. GorgaS. surgeon gen.
eral OF the United states Army. also
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