Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-02-14
SERIES OF CLINICS
TO BEGIN FEB. 2o21
At EAST. ME-. GEN. HOS,

The first Of series Of clinics to be
held during 1922 for Maine doctors
and nurses under the joint auspices
Of the Maine Medical Association and
the Maine Public Health Association
will take place Feb. 20-2l, at the
Eastern Maine General Hospital in
Bangor. Several noted New England
surgeons and physicians will be in at
tendance for the purpose of conduct
ing clinics and giving actual demon
STATIONS in early diagnosis of various
diseases. These include DR.. Fred B.
Land Of the Boston City Hospital,
DR.. Claiming rockingham and DR..
Lawrence Reynolds of Peter Bent
Brigham Hospital, DR.. E. G. Abbott Of
Portland, DR.. Eugene Kelley. state
commissioner of health in Massachu-
sets. DR.. Donald B. Armstrong, ex-
ecutive officer Of the National Health
Council in New York and others.
Members of the staff Of the Eastern
Maine General Hospital will assist in
the various clinics.
Special programs both for physi-
clans and for public health nurses
will be given both days. The pro-
gram for the physicians, during both
| days includes laboratory demonstra-
lions, lectures on X-ray work, ortho-
pedic clinics and actual case work il
Illustrating many of the problems
which present themselves in the
practice Of medicine. These lectures
and demonstrations will take place
at the Eastern Maine General Hospi-
tai. The program for public health
nurses includes visits to the Bangor
Fresh Air School and the Bangor Tu-
berculosis Sanatorium; exhibits of
child welfare, tuberculosis and school
nursing work; lectures on nutrition by
Miss Wood of the Boston Dispensary;
an address on Dental Hygiene and
It's Relation to Health" by DR.. Archer
Jordan OF Auburn, chairman of the
Division of Dental Hygiene of the
Maine Public Health Association: a
lecture on dental hygiene for children
| of pre-school age by DIR. F. E. Max
field Of Bangor; discussion on sew
| eral phases of mental hygiene by
Mis- Harriet Bailey of Bangor and
DIR. Carl Hedin, superintendent of
the Bangor State Hospital, lecture
on 1.-THE Effect of Posture on Health"
by DR.. E. G. Abbott of Portland and
! an address on Child Welfare Work
by DR.. Eugene Kelley. All of the lee
lures to nurses will be given at the
Bangor Chamber of Commerce.
A special program for both doctors
| and nurses will be given Monday eve
ming Feb. 20. under the auspices of
the Maine Public Health Association,
at the Bangor Chamber of Commerce.
d. E. D. Merrill of Foxcroft, presi-
dent of the association, will preside
and an address will be delivered by
DR.. Donald B. Armstrong, executive
officer of the National Health Coun-
Gil. headquarters, New York, on the
subject What Organization Can Do
to Reduce the Death Rate"
DIR. c. +. Kendall, health commits
sioner for Maine will discuss "The
Importance Of Vital Statistics"
The Health Plan for Maine will be
discussed in its several aspects. On
the second evening, Tuesday, Feb. 81,
the visiting physicians and nurses
| Will attend banquet at the Bangor
House given by the Penobscot Medi-
cal Society. In developing the pro-
! gram for this two-day clinic the COM
mistec on Public Relations of the
Maine Medical Association, the Di-
vision of Public Health Nursing of
the State Department of Health and
the Maine Public Health Association
| have co-operated with the staff of the
Eastern Maine General Hospital. All
physicianstand nurses in Maine are
invited to attend. There will be no
charges for the service and instruc-
ton which will be provided by the
three organizations most keenly in
terested in promoting health in
Maine.