Putnam patriot., 1923-09-21
NEW POSITION FOR
 FORMER LOCAL MAN
Dr. Brown to Be Superintendent of Arkansas State lnsti-
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Native of Putnam Achieving Notable Success as Speeislist and Executive

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 Success as Specialist and Executive
 Tt is pleasing news that comes from Jackson. Miss, where Dr. Louis R. Brown. only son of Mrs. Annie NJ. Brown of Church street this city, is at the head of the medi- cal staff of the Mississippi State Hos pital for the Insane. Dr. Brown. who is a native of Putnam and has many friends here, has just accepted the position of superintendent of the Arkansas State Hospital for nervous diseases and will take up his new duties on Oct 1.
 Position Unsolicited The position WAS unsolicited on the part of Dr. Brown. The Arkan- sas board in seeking a new super intendent wrote several influential citizens of the south, one of whom knew of the work of Dr. Brown and recommended him. He will succeed Dr. C. c. Kirk, who has been super intendent for number of years. The hospital is located in Little Rock.
 Dr. Browns successor at the local institution has not been named.
 The loss of Dr. Brown will be keenly felt by the hospital, he having been largely instrumental in the im- provement of the institution since be- coming affiliated with the staff in July 1920.
 When Dr. Mitchell, superintendent of the hospital, assumed charge he at once sought to bring the standard of the hospital to that of similar eastern institutions. Dr. Brown was recommended bv Dr. Kline. chairman of the Massachusetts Mental Disease Commission as the man for the place with the result that he was persuad- ed to leave the Massachusetts, hos pital.
 Made Many Reforms
 Many reforms in the methods of caring for patients have been insti- tuted largely through the efforts of Dr. Brown, who has acted in an ad- visory capacity 10 all departments. It was largely through his efforts that the school for the training of teachers of occupational therapy was established. it being the first school of it's kind in the world in an insane hospital. Graduates of the school have been sent to number of the large mental disease hospitals in the east and middle west and have made good. So thoroughly are they trained at the local institution.
 Prior to his connection with the Massachusetts hospital. Dr. Brown was connected with hospital in Trenton. N. J., for a year. He went to Trenton in 1918 after having spent 10 years at the Connecticut State Hospital for the insane in various capacities.
 Born In Putnam
 Born in Putnam, in 1878, he was educated in the public schools of his native town and graduated from Put nam High School in the class of 1896. He then entered Tufts College where he received his Bachelor of Arts de- gree in 1900 and his medical degree in 1907. He served IS months in the Massachusetts State Hospital for the insane before going to Connecticut in 1908.
 Dr. Brown is married and has two children. He Is a member of the Episcopal church. 32nd degree Mason and is prominent in all civic activities. especially those movements that tend 10 aid the mentally defec- tive.
 At present he is secretary of the Association of Southern Insane Hos pital Superintendents and is active in the work of the American Psychia- tric Association. reading a paper at the last meeting on the relation of pellagra and insanity. He is also a member os the soutisern Medical Az sociation, the Mississippi Medical As- sociation. Connecticut Medical As- sociation and other similar organiza- tions