The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-06-22
MEDICAL SOCIETY WILL BEGIN FIGHT
 FOR HEAL I'll ANEW
Thorough Investigation of American Conditions Is
 Planned.
Education of Public to Be Prime Factor in Better
 Living Campaign.

Atlantic City, N. J., June a. Wrestling with the worldwide prob lem of public health is to be under taken with renewed vigor by the American Medical Association. This broader aspect of public health con servation was dominant over the case of the individual at the opening here today of the sixty-hfth annual meet ing of the association.
 Today's session was that of the House of Delegates the legislative body of the association, which now represents a mem bership of Al, OPS, as the secretary reported. The treas urer,s report shows a balance of over $14O, 900. Among the expenditures for the year were $1S,465 for. education of the public, and over. $10, 1000 flor propaganda against frauds and fakes. ''
 The report of the Council on Health and Public Instruction outlined comprehensive program for extending the study of the public health The plans are for a. thorough investiga- ton of public health conditions in the United States, with the gathering of more reliable data: the education of the public ssby every possi bIe means and 'ttEe crystallizing of pub lie sentiment in securing necessary public health laws, regulations and
 
 a conservation of human life com mensurate with our advancing knowl- edge
 At it's last convention the Associa- ton pledged itself to support such a public health program as Presi- dent Wilson might decide to recona- mend The council reported this year: "As exixsing conditions make it clearly impossible for the president ts take up this matter at present, 1t a rninistration is prepared to make def mite recommendation on this sub- ject.',
 The Council on Medical Education presented its tenth annual report showing that in 1904, when the coun- cil was created, there were 16o med ical colleges in the United States, many of which were organized and conducted on purely commercial basis: that, due large9y to the coun- reduced to about 100, and that, where as in 1908, there were only four med icaI colleges having a high standard of entrance requirem ents, there are now 8 2 colleges which require one or more years of college work in, addition to a standard four years high school course as condition for entrance. A striking feature has been that in many cities in which number of weak medical schools existed, they have through merger ana aDSOTpl1ODs been combined to form one strong and well equipped institution.
 The council pays a. tribute to the medical colleges of the South for the remarkable manner in which they have grappled with the problems of medical education in that part of the country. Although working under greater obstacles than elsewhere, they. have been gradually overcoming their difficulties. In 1907, the south ern section of the country had Al med icaI colleges in which IT, or 41.5 per cent, could be rated in class ssA.'' | For the first time, provision has been made for a careful investigation of postgraduate medical schools Of the country. It is a new line of work which the council has not hith- erto undertaken.
 The committee to consider the movement to conmemorate the com pIetion of the Panama Canal recom- l inended thst a monument be erected l to be financed by the American Med- icaI Association, located on the Canal Zone, at a point to be chosen by the | Secretary of War this monument eo
 be commemorative of the contriba1 I tin of the American Medical Asso- l ciation to preventive medicine and | sanitary science