"multiple accident." Perhaps some day we will stop speaking of "fatal accidents" and call these tragedies "criminal negligents." BRITISH MINISTRY OF HEALTH spends five cents per capita for the control of syphilis in England, in addition to provincial and local expenditures, according to Colonel L. W. Harrison of the Ministry in a recent address in New York City. Col. Harrison was of the opinion that England stands midway between Denmark and Sweden in regard to the incidence of early syphilis. The incidence rate for syphilis in Great Britain is 1/25 of the rate for the United States. If the expenditure of the Public Health Service were in proportion to that of the British Ministry of Health, $1.25 per capita would be spent in this country. TEACHERS' COURSES IN SIGHT SAVING to be offered at the 1938 summer sessions of seven institutions have been announced by the National Society for the Prevention of Blindness. These courses will be accepted as college credits for teachers and supervisors in sight saving classes, and will be given at Tulane University, University of Cincinnati, University of Washington, University of Hawaii, Wayne University, State Teachers College, Buffalo, N. Y., and Teachers College, Columbia University. Details regarding the courses may be obtained from the University or college, or from the director in charge of the course. ANTIDOTE TO "SIGHT" MISINFORMATION The Book Digest published a condensation of "Sight Without Glasses", a treatise purporting to teach people how to save their sight by doing "swing" (yes, really!) exercises. The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness have a group of interesting antidotes for this type of quackery in the form of the following pamphlets: "Throw Away Your Glasses" by W. I. Crisp, M.D.; "Your Eyes and You" by Charles A. Bahn, M.D.; "Vision De fects and Their Correction" by Willis S. Knighton, M.D.; and "Why Wear Glasses?" by Philip A. Halper, M.D. The American Medical Association also issues "Wearing Glasses" by Walter B. Lancaster, M.D., and a reprint from Hygeia, "First Eyeglasses at Middle Age." Needless to say none of these advises the "big swing" for correction of visual defect. A.M.A. JOURNAL SCORES ANTIVIVISECTIONISTS in California in a rousing editorial for February 19, 1938. The "lumane Pound Law" proposed for California provides that dogs and cats shall not be delivered to medical schools from public pounds. A petition has been circulated and since it received the requested number of signatures, the voters of California will find the proposed law on their ballots on election day, November 8, 1938. According to the A.M.A. (and all en lightened professional and non-professional persons) the crucial point is that in California "research involving dogs would be prohibitive in price since the breeding of dogs for research is impractical." The California Society for the Promotion of Medical Research is cited as "The answer of the enlightened people of California to the challenge of the antivivisectionists and their cultist, faker, faddist and fraud-monger allies." Leading citizens backing the work of the Society include President Ray Lyman Wilbur of Stanford University, President Robert Gordon Sproul of the University of California, the Rt. Reverend Charles A. Ramm, Monsignor St. Mary's Cathedral, Rabbi Irving F. Reichert, Rev. William Kirk Guthrie, all of San Francisco. The A.M.A. sees in this law "the entering wedge for intolerable restrictions on the freedom of scientific research, so its adoption in California will be the signal for renewed campaigns in other States." Citing the position of the medical prothe fession against fanatical groups, and work of the Association's Committee for the Protection of Medical Research, the Journal calls for a permanent, national organization similar to the California Society for the Promotion of Medical Research which is organized on the lines of the British Research Defense Council. RHODE ISLAND PASSES PREMARITAL EXAMINATION LAW - The Rhode Island Senate passed a bill providing that each applicant for a marriage license must present a physician's certificate stating that both parties have submitted to a physical examination and a standard laboratory blood test. - IN-SERVICE TRAINING IN NEW YORK CITY To make new advances in the control of infectious diseases, a series of lectures are being given by the division of Public Health Training for the physicians of the various bureaus and clinics of the New York City Department of Health. Experts in specific fields are discussing their particular subjects. The program, which began in March and will continue until June 10th, includes: Public Health Administration--Dr. Haven Emerson, DeLamar Institute, Columbia Univ. Encephalitis, Poliomyelitis and Meningococcic Meningitis--Dr. Josephine B. Neal, N. Y. C. Bureau of Laboratories Present Status of Diphtheria Control--Dr. Bela Schick, Mt. Sinai Hospital Amoebic Dysentery--Dr. A. V. Hardy, DeLamar Institute, Columbia University Epidemic Diarrhea of the Newborn--Dr. Harold Abramson, N.Y.C. Health Department Modern Views of Rabies--Dr. Leslie T. Webster, Rockefeller Institute Experimental Epidemiology--Dr. Webster Leprosy and Tularemia in the United States-Dr. George W. McCoy, U.S.P.H.S. DENTAL DIRECTORS have been appointed to assume duties in three State health departments. They are: Dr. Edward J. Doran of Buffalo -- appointed Dental Director of the Division of Maternity, Infancy and Child Hygiene, New York State Department of Health; Dr. Quannah S. McCall, of Reno -appointed Dental Director of the Division of Maternal and Child Health, Nevada State Board of Health; Dr. Allen 0. Gruebbel of Lexington, Missouri and now completing a course at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, Missouri State Board of Health. REFRESHER COURSES IN CHILDREN'S DENTISTRY will be conducted for dentists by the Georgia State Department of lealth during May. A one-day course will be conducted in five centers over the State. It will be presented by Dr. Walter McBride, pedodontist of Detroit, Mich., Dr. J. G. Williams, Dental Director and Miss Annie Taylor, Assistant Dental Director of the State Health Department. This is the first "refresher" course, planned by the U. S. Public Health Service, to be given by a State health department. made immediately in cooperation with Dr. Henry Borsook of the California Institute of Technology. - QUACKERY PUBLICITY IN FRANCE TO GO The General Commission for Propaganda of the Ministry of Public Health of France has unanimously adopted the following resolution, according to Prophylaxie Antivenerienne for September 1937: "Resolved that no publicity for a drug or medical procedure be allowed to appear in the medical journals or newspapers, be shown in the cinema or broadcast, be published in tracts or advertised in any way whatever without being authorized by a vise from a Sanitary Commission specially appointed for this purpose by the Ministry of Public Health including delegates from the leading medical groups." A subcommittee is to be appointed to study practical methods of effective control of charlatanism until this resolution can be legalized. THE FRENCH MINISTERS OF PUBLIC HEALTH-and of national education have outlined a program for the education of youth for the control of venereal disease. The program comprises three lectures a year for educators, given over the radio, each 20 minutes in length, by physicians designated by the Minister of Public Health on "The part to be played by educators in the fight against venereal disease." The text of these lectures will be published. For the pupils of normal schools for the training of male teachers, three lectures on the control of the social diseases, particularly the venereal diseases. For the pupils of normal schools for the training of female teachers, three lectures on venereal diseases from the point of view of heredity. For male students more than 16 years of age, three lectures on the struggle against social evils, particularly the venereal diseases, considered from the point of view of; (a) individual responsibility, (b) heredity, (c) protection. For female students more than 16 years of age, three lectures on preparation for marriage and maternity. The text of these lectures will be prepared by the Ministry of Public Health and sent through the Ministry of Education to the Inspectors of the Academy. --(Reported in Prophylaxis Antivenerienne, October 1937.) VOLUME 2--NUMBERS 1-12 MAY 1937 THROUGH APRIL 1938 Articles which appear in full and authors whose contributions appear in full in "The Adolescence, Crime and, --Karpman monia --Horsfall As the Psychiatrist Sees the Teacher --Challman. Birth Rate, Economic Conditions and the Falling, Kershaw See also Education Cancer, Talk on, --Clute Cancer, The Genesis of, --MacCarty Carbon Monoxide Poisoning, Review of, 1936 --Sayers and Davenport. 37;81:128;174; 240; 306;374;452;517;584;635 175 306 174 129 240 174 380 306 519 307 130 310 175 586 129 174 82 174 131 174 584 637 307 380 Central America and Panama, First Sanitary Congress of, --Gaitan Chastity, The Case for,--Banning. --Galkin. Child Guidance Clinic, The Summer Camp as a Supplement to the, Children's Institutions, Mental Health Needs in Foster. Communicable Disease Control in Private Practice Stewa and Platou 455 Communicable Diseases, Seasonal Patterns and Trends of --Olesen and Hampton. Community Provision for the Serum Treatment of Pneumococcic Infec- Medicine. County Chairman and Lay (cancer) Education --Kress Danish National Insurance Act, The, --Wechselmann. Instruction in, --Irwin Dentist, Role of the, in the Control of Syphilis --Vonderiehr Barnard Education, The Informative Content of, --Wells. Drugs, Food and, "The Week" --New Republic Doctors, Dollars and Disease --Public Affairs Committee. Panama, Central America and, First Sanitary Congress of; Nutrition, The Assessment of, in School Children -Wiikins Abstracts and Annotations, Cont'd. German Workers' Invalidity Old-Age and Widows and Orphans Insurance Gonorrhea Problem in the U. S., The, Vonderiehr and Usiiton. Health, An Experiment in--Alan. Barnard. Health Awareness Test --Derryberry, Franzen and McCali See also: Dental Health, Education, Schooi, etc. Health Explorations of Eighth Grade Children Illness and Medical Care in Puerto Rico --Mountin: and Peyton Industrial Preventive Medicine: A Pian for the Control of Occupa- Nutrition -Cassie. Informative Content of Education, The, --Wells See also: Medical Cooperatives, Medicai It Can Be Controlled (syphilis) --Davis. dn Medical Education as Discussed in "American Medicine' States --Smith Mortality from Cesarean Section in Indianapolis and the Centrai Motherhood?, What Price, --Kreech. No Defence for Any of Us (negro health) Philosophy of Case Holding, The, --Ingraham and Stokes Pneumonia, Lobar, Antipneumococcus Rabbit Serum as a therapeutic Abstracts and Annotations, Cont'd. Preventive Measures against Infant Mortality from Diseases of Nutrition --Cassie. Preventive, Curative and, Work in the German Workers Invalidity, Public Health and Pharmacy --Draper Rabies --Bundesen Rehabilitation of Dental Cripples -Knutson 637 635 586 177 636 308 308 307 307 584 178 131 452 636 Rural Health Programs, Function of the School in --Grout School Health Examinations, Carry-over Value from --Kleinschmidt 130 240 37 311 Schools We Keep, The --Sackett Scientific Exhibit: "The Story of Life" at the Texas Centennial Exposition --Erickson Seasonal Patterns and Trends of Communicable Diseases --Olesen Silicosis and Other Dust Diseases --Russeli Summer Camp, The, as a Supplement to the Child Guidance Clinic' on Pneumonia on the Vocational Rehabilitation of the Tuberculous. Transiency Equals Mobility in Trouble --Wickenden Levine. Tuberculosis, A Five-year Study of among Negroes Tuberculous Vocational Rehabilitation of the, Symposium on the We Can End This Sorrow (syphilis) --deKruif and Parran. Achievements of William Crawford Gorgas, The, --LePrince, J. A.* Alabama's District Health and Training Demonstrations --Baker, J. 612 82 American Dental Association Stresses Public Health, The 79th Annual Session of the, 149 American Medical Association Meeting, The Health Officer at the,* 95 213 153; 255; 259 See also: Dental Health, News Briefs and Public Health American Society for the Control of Cancer: Light against the Great Darkness* |