NEWS THE STATE BOARD OF REGISTRATION IN MEDICINE. The annual report for 1905, of the Secretary of this board, Dr. B. D. Harison, is interesting reading. 240 certificates of registration were issued to physicians beginning practice in the State, 278 having been issued in 1904 and 422 in 1903. This great reduction in the number he attributes to the increased requirements of the law and their strict observance by the board. If other states would do the same, the undesirable annual surplus of medical graduates would be done away with. Reciprocity in registration was begun with nine states during the year, making the total number now twenty. It is announced that hereafter the June examination will be held in Ann Arbor, and the October examination in Lansing. Also that the secretary will move his office to Detroit. The new schedule for examinations which was mentioned in the November Journal is described at length. ALUMNI CLINIC WEEK. The annual alumni clinic of the Detroit College of Medicine will be held May 7-17 this year, and it promises to be the most successful function of the kind ever held in Detroit. Besides the clinics of Detroit physicians there will be a number of distinguished clinicians from other cities. Dr. Howard Kelly, of Baltimore, Professor of Gynecology in Johns Hopkins University, will give a gynecological clinic; Dr. J. A. McKenzie, of Toronto, President of the American Orthopedic Association, will give an orthopedic clinic; Dr. Frank Billings, Dean of Rush Medical College, Chicago, will give a medical clinic; and Dr. E. A. Christian will hold a clinic in mental diseases at the asylum at Pontiac. ANNUAL REPORTS OF DETROIT HOSPITALS. Grace Hospital had 1,761 patients last year and treated 1,152 cases in the free dispensary. Of the in-patients 140 died, 49 of these within 48 hours after entering the hospital. The ambulance answered 1,248 calls. The year's expenses were $61,686.02, of which $5,718.57 went for repairs and improvements. In concluding the report, Dr. W. L. Babcock, the superintendent, calls attention to the need of new sun-balconies and a new ambulance. There were no additions to the medical staff. Dr. Oscar LeSeure is president and Dr. H. L. Obetz, executive officer, of the staff. A suite of four operating rooms, an X-ray outfit, an infant incubator and a newly equipped laundry were added during the year. A very pleasing part of the report announces a surplus of $1,921.96, whereas the year 1904 saw a deficit. The Children's Free Hospital treated 608 children during last year and had 37 deaths. Bequests amounting to $5,881 were received during the year. The Woman's Hospital cared for 626 women and children during the year. There were no deaths among the charity patients. Bequests were received to the amount of $17,850. Dr. W. P. Manton was re-elected president of the medical staff. THE REORGANIZATION OF ST. MARY'S HOSPITAL. The Sisters in charge of St. Mary's Hospital in connection with the attending medical staff have effected a reorganization, taking place at once. There has been established a Medical Board of St. Mary's Hospital consisting of a Consulting, a Visiting, and an Assistant Staff. The President of the Medical Board with the Visiting Staff constitute the Governing Board who will direct the medical affairs of the Hospital and nominate new members of the Board, subject to the approval of the Sisters. The Medical Board elected T. A. McGraw, president, and A. P. Biddle, secretary, and the following staff has been appointed: Consulting gynecologist, F. W. Webber; consulting laryngologist, E. L. Shurly; consulting neurologist, David Inglis; visiting physicians, E. A. Chapoton, R. A. Jamieson, W. R. Chittick, A. H. Steinbrecher, B. P. Brodie; assistant physician, John Lee; visiting surgeons, T. A. McGraw, H. O. Walker, F. W. Robbins, F. B. Walker; assistant surgeons, W. E. Keane, W. J. Seymour; sisiting gynecologists, M. Brady, Wm. A. Repp, T. A. McGraw, Jr.; assistant gynecologists, I. S. Gellert, L. L. Zimmer; opthalmic surgeons, Eugene Smith, R. W. Gillman; dematologists, A. E. Carrier, A. P. Biddle; laryngologist, F. G. Miner; neurologist, A. W. Ives; radiologist, H. H. Cook; pathologist, E. H. Hayward. Dr. John H. Howard has moved from Byron, to 689 Campbell Ave., Detroit. Dr. G. R. Breckon, of Caledonia, afflicted with a stricture of the oesophagus, is reported as no better. Dr. L. P. Parkhurst, who has been ill with diphtheria at his home in Grand Rapids, is now convalescing. Dr. C. F. Fay, formerly of Battle Creek, but for the past four years practicing at Assyria Center, will open an office at Kalamazoo. Dr. Tillspaugh, of Plymouth, has sold his practice to Dr. Edward Huber, of Ionia. Dr. Tillspaugh expects to move to New York State. Dr.E. L. Shurly has returned from Philadelphia, where he went to attend a meeting of the council of the American Climatological Society. Dr. C. H. Miller, who has been in the northwest for the past two months, returned to Hillsdale Jan. 14th, and will resume his practice there. Dr. C. H. Merrill, of Marshall, left Jan. 3 for Philadelphia, where he has a position as assistant surgeon in the United States Marine Hospital. Dr. W. P. Manton, Dr. H. O. Walker, and Dr. C. G. Jennings were elected directors of the Detroit Clinical Laboratory at the annual meeting in January. Alma Sanitarium has a new medical superintendent, Dr. Corbus, formerly a practitioner in Detroit, who succeeds Dr. Fenton Turck, of Chicago, resigned. Dr. C. B. Nancrede, of Ann Arbor, spoke before the Kalamazoo County Medical Society on Dec. 29, on "Modern Gastric Surgery and the Principles of Technique." Dr. J. A. Attridge, formerly of Detroit, will open an office at Lansing for the practice of surgery. He has been a lecturer on anatomy at the Detroit College of Medicine. Dr. J. L. Remilliard, practicing at Iron Mountain for the past five years, has purchased the practice of a leading physician in Beaverville, Ill., where he will move soon. Dr. A. F. Kingsley, of Centerville, has moved to Battle Creek where he has opened an office with Dr. Atherton-room 1, Noble Block, with his residence at 13 Garrison Ave. The Ionia County Medical Society met at Ionia on Jan. 17. Dr. Gauss read a paper on Acute Rheumatism; Dr. Marsh, on Appendicitis, Its Medical Treatment, and Dr. Dellenbaugh, on Chorea. Dr. C. E. Bailey, of Ionia, is in a critical condition from diabetic gangrene and it is feared that it will be necessary to amputate one of his feet. It is thought that he could not survive the shock. An association to establish a tuberculosis sanatorium has been organized at Kalamazoo. It will be a tent colony, located on the shores of Dustin Lake, seven miles from the city. It is planned to open it on April 15th. Dr. F. W. Shumway, secretary of the State Board of Health, read a paper at Lansing, Jan. 11th, before the Ingham County Medical Society on The Duties and Responsibilities of Health Officers in Contagious Diseases. Dr. A. H. Eber, of St. Clair, has been given a commission as surgeon in the United States army and left Jan. 17 for Fort Russell, near Cheyenne, Wyoming, to report for duty. Later he expects to be sent to the Philippines . Dr. F. J. Schultz, of Ionia, who has been acting as interne at the State Asylum, has been promoted by Supt. Long to be an assistant physician and Dr. W. J. Maxwell, of Toledo, is also appointed as assistant physician. This will dispense with the interne. Drs. H. O. Walker and C. G. Jennings, of Detroit, read papers before the annual meeting of the South Bend (Ind.), Medical Society on Jan. 30. The titles of their addresses were respectively, “Abdominal Pain-Its Significance," and "Treatment of Acute Nephritis.” The delegates of the Wayne County Medical Society to the state meeting in May are W. S. Anderson, P. M. Hickey, L. J. Hirschman, Emil Amberg, and Louise Rosenthal Thompson; alternates, D. M. Campbell, E. W. Meddaugh, B. R. Hoyt, C. S. Oakman, J. E. Davis, Minta P. Kemp. The Michigan State Board of Health has decided to issue all bulletins. pamphlets, etc., which they publish in a uniform style under the title "Public Health, Michigan." This will be a decided advantage in appearance and accessibility as well as a great saving in postage. At a meeting of the council of the Michigan State Medical Society, held in Detroit Jan. 12, Dr. Andrew P. Biddle refused a re-election and Dr. Benj. R. Schenck was chosen secretary of the society and editor of the state journal. Dr. C. B. Burr, of Flint, was elected chairman of the council. Dr. H. L. Obetz, of Detroit, has been sued by former Circuit Court Commissioner Wm. H. Corlette, who was struck by an automobile last August, for improper treatment of his arm. Mr. Corlette declares he will never regain the use of it, while Dr. Obetz contends that it will be as good as ever in time. Dr. Roger S. Morris, instructor in internal medicine and demonstrator of clinical medicine in the medical department of the University of Michigan, has received an appointment as second assistant resident physician in the hospital of John Hopkins university, and he will leave at once to take up his new duties. Drs. Van der Laan and Garber, two reputable doctors of Hackley Hospital at Muskegon, resigned from the board of trustees in the interests of professional concord. Doctors of the city have been at swords points with the two because they were singled out and placed on the board and at the heads of different housestaffs. An important announcement has been made by the Michigan Secretary of State in regard to the enforcement of the new birth registration law. It is to the effect that if a child is unnamed at the time the physician makes his report of the birth, he may leave the supplemental blank with the parent who then becomes responsible for the filing of the later report. A farewell banquet was tendered Dr. Beverly D. Harison at Sault Ste. Marie by one hundred of his friends on the evening of Jan. 10th, on the occasion of his leaving the Soo, after eighteen years in that city. Dr. Harison has moved to Detroit where he will devote his time to legal medicine and his duties as secretary of the Michigan Board of Medical Examiners. There is nothing timid about the health officials in Detroit. A few evenings ago it was discovered that a boy in a Woodward Avenue bowling alley was broken out with small-pox. As soon as the diagnosis was confirmed a squad of police accompanied physicians to the place, and in spite of wails and fistic protests, vaccinated every one of the fifty men and boys who could not show a good scar. The Michigan Tuberculosis Sanatorium. The trustees for this institution expect to have it in full working order before the next session of the legislature. They have examined something like twenty prospective sites and will probably decide on one this month. Three members of the Board have recently returned from a tour of inspection of the principal sanatoria in the East. They also visited the Tuberculosis Exhibit while it was in Boston. They have decided to erect an administration building with small "Shacks" modified from those in use at the sanatorium at Liberty, New York. The following 1905 graduates in medicine of the University have located in Michigan to practice: Dr. Roy Howe, 6 Kapp Block, Battle Creek. Dr. Jas. H. Lasater, U. B. A. Hospital, Grand Rapids. Dr. Edwin R. Taylor, 2-4 Commercial Block, Benton Harbor. Dr. Henry J. Van den Berg, Majestic Bldg., Grand Rapids. Dr. Donald R. MacIntyre, Calumet & Hecla Hospital, Calumet. Dr. Howell L. Begle, Tamarack Hospital, Calumet. A public hospital has just been opened at Calumet. The idea originated with Dr. Otto J. Kohlhaas. The hospital contains an opening room and beds for fifteen patients have been provided. There are now three patients, and the first operation was performed there Jan. 12. Every room is 12x14 feet, well heated and lighted. The rates are to be within the reach of all and with the very best of attention, the hospital will no doubt be a success. Three nurses are on duty. All are trained to hospital work and patients and friends may rest assured that everything possible for the care of each patient will be done. As the Sorsen hospital is in no way a public institution, the new hospital will fill a long felt want. The Grand Rapids Anti-Tuberculosis Society had a decidedly active first year according to their annual report. It took active part in securing the appropriation for a state sanatorium, in securing the enaction of a local anti-spitting ordinance, and one requiring physicians to report cases of tuberculosis. In addition to this, they have employed a trained nurse to visit houses where patients are ill with this disease, and give practical instruction in their care. The educational department has caused lectures on the subject to be delivered before many clubs and societies, thus reaching over 5,000 people. It was decided to take active steps at once toward securing for the city a tuberculosis sanatorium. Dr. Collins H. Johnston, Dr. Ralph Apted, and Dr. T. M. Koon have been active in the work. DEATHS. Dr. Francis E. Fuller, of Adrian, died Jan. 25 in Sturgis. George H. Granger, M. D., University of Michigan Department of Medicine and Surgery, Ann Arbor, 1867, died at his home in Bay City Dec. 22, from diabetes, aged 64. Dr. G. Archie Stockwell, formerly of this city, died at Houston, Texas from a stroke of apoplexy Jan. 28, aged 59 years. He was at one time editor of the Detroit Medical Journal and Medical Age. Dr. Hibbard, a pioneer of St. Joseph County, died Jan. 2 at his home, after ten years of feeble health. For a number of years he had not practiced his profession, but devoted his time to study and his financial affairs. He leaves a widow but no children. MARRIAGES. Dr. Wm. F. Clute to Miss Winnie E. Tyler, on Jan. 4, both of Gladwin. Jacob S. Shoemaker, M. D., New Lothrop, to Miss Helena Mae Speer, of Corunna, Dec. 20. THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF DETROIT By GUY L. KIEFER, M. D., At the end of January, the status of contagious (notifiable) diseases in Detroit was as follows: The patient is a boy six A case of small-pox was reported on January 29th. teen years of age, who had never been vaccinated. He contracted the disease at his home, Harrisonville, Mich., which city he left fourteen days previous to the night he was found in Detroit, broken out with small-pox. The patient is confined at the hospital. Medical Inspection of Schools. During the month of January, 2.006 pupils were examined and 148 excluded. The causes of exclusion were as follows: It will be noticed that two cases of scarlet fever and two of diphtheria were among those excluded. One of the cases of scarlet fever was found in the early stage of the disease while the other was desquamating. There can be no doubt that these two exclusions prevented a number of additional cases. Both of the cases of diphtheria were verified by bacterologic examinations. The prompt removal of these cases and the subsequent disinfection of the school likewise, undoubtedly prevented a number of cases of diphtheria. The fact that forty-seven pupils were sent home with "sore throats," diagnosed as tonsilitis, is also worthy of special mention. Registration of Births. The new law requiring the registration of births is being generally observed. The law went into effect on January 10th and up to the present time 582 births have been reported for the month. During the month of January, 1905, only 233 such reports were made. The number of deaths during January was 402. COMMUNICATIONS A LITTLE PILGRIMAGE TO THE MAYOS. By W. J. STAPLETON, JR., M. D., Detroit. Tucked down in the southeastern corner of the state of Minnesota, is the little town of Rochester with a population of about 8,000 people; a thriving community surrounded by one of the richest farming countries in the West. To this little out-of-a-way place come sick people from far and near to consult two doctors by the names of Will and Charles Mayo, sons of a doctor father. The prospective patient in order to consult the Mayos, goes to their office situated on the ground floor of the Masonic Temple building which is divided into numerous rooms, with a laboratory for the examination of blood and urine, X-Ray examining room, operating room for minor work, a business office and a library. As he enters the office he is met by the business manager who takes his name, address, etc., he is then turned over to one of the several physicians employed by the Mayos who do the examining of patients. This physician takes their history |