secure the support of the mass of the people to much needed sanitary reforms, because we have appealed to them as one individual to another, without the weight of an authoritative organization." Presidential address, A. M. A., Boston. STATUS OF THE MEMBERSHIP A. M. A. Recapitulation: New members enrolled during the year.... ...4351 Less 3756 New York new code men come back (a thing that can not occur again... Total gains Per contra: Deaths (171), resignations and dropped.... ...3756 595 ...1208 Net loss (excepting the new code increment), 613, or an average of over fifty each month. Abstracts and Selections New National Quarantine Law. An Act to further protect the public health and make more effective the national quarantine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury shall have the control, direction, and management of all quarantine stations, grounds, and anchorages established by authority of the United States, and as soon as practicable after the approval of this act shall select and designate such suitable places for them and establish the same at such points on or near the coast line of the United States or the border of the United States and a foreign country, as in his judgment are best suited for the same and necessary to prevent the introduction of yellow fever into the United States, and, in his discretion, he may also establish at the group of islands known as the Dry Tortugas, at the western end of the Florida reef, and at such other point or points on or near the coast line of the United States (not to exceed four in the aggregate) as he deems necessary, quarantine grounds, stations, and anchorages, whereat or whereto infected vessels bound for any port in the United States may be detained or sent for the purpose of being disinfected, having their cargoes disinfected and discharged, if necessary, and their sick treated in hospitals until all danger of infection or contagion from such vessels, their cargoes, passengers, or crews has been removed. SEC. 2. That in cases in which the title to the land and water so selected and designated is in the United States it shall be the duty of the department, bureau, or official of the United States having custody or possession of such land and water, or any part thereof, not used by the Government for other purposes designated by law, or possession of said Dry Tortugas Islands, on demand of the Secretary of the Treasury, to deliver the same into his custody and possession for the use of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, evidencing such delivery by a suitable instrument in writing to be delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury. That in cases in which the title to such land and water, or any part thereof, is in any other owner than the United States it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to secure the title and possession of the same to the United States for the use of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States, by purchase at a reasonable price, if possible; but if, in his judgment, the price demanded for such property be excessive, he is hereby authorized to apply to the Attorney General of the United States to cause to be instituted, in the proper tribunal, condemnation proceedings in the name of the United States for the purpose of acquiring for the United States the title and possession of such land and water, and said Attorney General shall, as soon as possible after such application by the Secretary of the Treasury, cause such proceedings to be instituted and conducted to a conclusion, and the custody and possession of such land and water, when duly acquired in accordance with the award made in such condemnation proceedings, shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Treasury for the use of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. SEC. 3. That on acquiring possession of any land and water in accordance with the provisions of this act for the purpose of establishing thereat a quarantine station and anchorage, the Secrctary of the Treasury shall cause to be published in such newspapers as he may think proper, once a week for four successive weeks, a notice of the selection and designation of such places for quarantine stations and anchorages, with a description of the boundaries of such quarantine stations and anchorages, and such rules and regulations as he shall adopt and promulgate, requiring vessels with yellow fever among their passengers or crews to go to specified quarantine stations and anchorages, to be dealt with there before visiting any port of the United States. He shall establish at such quarantine stations and anchorages all necessary instrumentalities for disinfecting vessels and their cargoes, and where the same shall be required shall erect the necessary hospital buildings and install the necessary furniture and fittings for receiving and treating the sick among the passengers and crews of vessels going to such quarantine stations and anchorages, and provide for the separation of those among their passengers and crews who are suffering from yellow fever from those who are in good health, and shall further provide for doing all things necessary to eradicate such disease from such vessels, their cargoes, passengers, and crews. SEC. 4. That any vessel, or any officer of any vessel, or other person other than State health or quarantine officers, entering within the limits of any quarantine grounds and anchorages, or any quarantine station and anchorage, or departing therefrom, in disregard of the quarantine rules and regulations or without the permission of the officer in charge of such quarantine ground and anchorage, or of such quarantine station and anchorage, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. That any master or owner of any vessel violating any provision of this act, or any provision of an act entitled "An Act granting additional powers and imposing additional duties on the Marine Hospital Service," approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, or violating any rule or regulation made in accordance with this act or said act of February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, relating to the inspection of vessels, or to the prevention of the introduction of contagious or infectious diseases into the United States, or any master, owner, or agent of any vessel making a false statement relative to the sanitary condition of such vessel or its contents, or as to the health of any passenger or person thereon shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than five hundred dollars or imprisonment for not more than one year, or both, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 5. 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The Medico-Legal Journal, commenting on the letters of Secretary of State Root and Assistant Secretary Bacon (reproduced in this issue), and publishing them in full, says editorially: "The American Government has taken strong ground in aid of preventive legislation in the conflict with tuberculosis. "The American International Congress on Tuberculosis has decided to make a renewal of the assault along the same lines, ou which it won its victories at the St. Louis Congress, held at the World's Exposition, in October, 1904. "Hon. Elihu Root brings the splendid sympathetic power of the great republic of the world's civilization in support of the aims and purposes of the American International Congress on Tuberculosis, to be held in the American metropolis, November 14, 15, and 16, 1906. "He shows great foresight, wisdom and statesmanship in placing the whole moral force of our government behind the great purpose of the American International Congress on Tuberculosis. "He has used the same splendidly sympathetic language in bringing it to the official notice of all the governments in the western hemisphere, through our Diplomatic corps, that Mr. Secretary Hay employed in recommending the St. Louis Congress to foreign governments. "Mr. Root is making history for both our government and for our people. The language employed is worthy of the cause, worthy of the occasion. "The battle cry of the Congress is Preventive Legislation Against Tuberculosis-To arrest, to avert, to minimize the spread of Consumption, is the battle ground. "The call of the Congress is to the masses of the people, to the men of all professions, the statesman, the publicist, the humanitarian. "It is not a medical question; not confined to medical men, but the call is to all men of all professions, and to the gigantic proportions of the conflict, and the magnitude of the problems, which |