Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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treatment of alcohol and drug addictions
of every character, also diseases of the
mind and nervous system.
The Hospital is located in Nashville,
Tennessee.
Dr. Reagan's Letter.
We reproduce Dr. Reagan's personal
letter. This is the first time that the Journal
has ever deviated from its policy, which
was established eighteen years ago. in regard
to publishing letters written to the
editor concerning the Journal, or any personal
friend. Dr. Reagan, I have no idea,
wants this letter reproduced in the Journal;
at the same time I want to publish it. It
reads as follows:
'My dear Dr. Register:—
I simply write to say that I enjoyed all
you said about Dr. Burroughs in your last
issue of the Journal. He has done more for
the young doctors than any man in Asheville,
if not in North Carolina.
With the best wishes for yourself, wife
and the Journal, I am as ever, the oldest
physician west of the Blue Ridge, and
formed the first Medical Society ever formed
this side of the Blue Ridge. We only had
seven physicians to begin with, now we
have over sixty.
Yours very truly,
J. A. Reagan,
Weaverv'jlle, N. C.
tion.
The new superintendent who succeeds
Miss Elinor Phillipps is Miss Helen Orchard,
of Richmond, Va. She is a Southern woman
and comes highly recommended.
Medical Department ol the University
ol Nortli Carolina.
The eighth session of the Medical Department
of the University of North Carolina
at Raleigh will begin on September '),
1909, at the same time as all the other I'niversity
Departments. Prospects for attendance
are good.
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Some changes in the faculty have been
made. Dr. John Sasser McKee has been
elected demonstrator of obstetrics, and Mr.
James Madison Harris, of Kinston, assistant
demonstrator of clinical pathology.
Dr. A. W. Goodwin has resigned his position
as professor of diseases of the skin
and genito-urinarv' system, and the resignation
has been accepted. Dr. CO. Abernethj'
was appointed to fill the position for
the coming session.
Pellagra in Nashville.
There are fourteen cases of pellagra
among the children of the Baptist Orphanage
of Nashville. Tenn. The State Board
of Health has appealed to the Federal Government
for an expert to aid in stamping
out the epidemic.
Health Conditions in North Carolina.
The Bulletin of the North Carolina Board
of Health for May, 1909, showed that reports
were received from 81 counties. The
total number of deaths reported was 356;
175 white and 182 colored. The annual
death rate in a thousand population was
l,v.> for the white population, 23.7 for the
colored, and 16.9 for the total while and
colored. Of the total number of deaths 22
were due to pneumonia, 50 to tuberculosis,
27 to heart diseases, 58 to diarrhceal diseases.
The total infant mortality was 102;
47 white and 55 colored. There were 53
stillbirths.
Rex Hospital.
Work on the new Rex
Mortality Statistics of New Orleans.
Hospital building,
in Raleigh, N. C, has progressed very rap- The official report of the Board of Health
idly during the past few weeks. The work- of the city of New (Jrleans shows that durmen
are now engaged in finishing the ining the month of June, 1909, the total num-
sideof the building. The plumbing, which ber of deaths from all causes was 536; 327
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' is har.dsome and costly, is l)eing installed, white and 209 colored. The death rate in
while the large quantity of tiling is already a thousand of population for the month was
laid. When completed the hospital will be 14.81 for the white, 26.88 for the colored,
stcond to none in the whole South. In de- and 17.76 for the total white and colored
;
I sign, workmanship, material and equip- population. The total infant mortality was
I ment it will be thoroughly up to date.
14f), 91 white and 55 colored; 119 under one
' It will be ready for occupancy October year of age, 74 white and 45 colored; 19
' 1st, though the contractor exjiects to be Isetween one and two years of age, 11 white
through work on or about September l.Sth. and 8 colored; and 8 between two and five
' Quite an event will be made of the dedica- years of age, 6 white and 2 colored.
Hie Fourth International Congress of the
Medical Press will meet this year at Budapest
on August 27 and 28, on the eve of the
Sixteenth International Congress of Medicine,
and under the presidency of Professor
Posnerof Berlin. The sittings will be held
in the Palace of the Academy of Sciences
( Akademia iitcza 2, Budapest V.), where
the asseuibly hall has been placed at the
disposal of the International Congress of
Medicine. For this congress, to which all
members of the medical press will be admitted,
no entrance fee or subscription will