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

EDITORIAL. 321
EDITORIAL NEWS ITEMS. Dr. Archie A. Barron, a young graduate
in medicine of Vanderbilt University, Nash-
Dr. F. J. Hunt, of Detroit, Mich., spent
a few days in Hickory, N. C, a few days
ago, in company with a party of his friends,
ville,Tenn., who has been practicing medi-
cine at Lake Toxaway, N. C, during the
summer months, has recently located in
looking for a location
Sanitarium.
for a Tuberculosis Charlotte, N. C.
It is supposed that a suitable
be found in a few days.
place will Dr. William D. Tewkesbury, of Washing-
ton, N. C, a graduate of the George Wash-
^, ~ , , , ";: ^ ington . University School of Medicine, has
The South Carolina State Trained Nurses' been appointed superintendent of the Vir-
Associalion met in the chapel at the Roper gi„ia State Tuberculosis Sanilorium, at
Hospital in Cliarleslon, S. C, on October Catawba Va.
the 27th and 2Sth, with Miss Leila V. Jones,
superintendent of nurses at the Roper Hos- The annual convention of the Southern
pital, presiding. Medical Association was held in New
The attendance was large, and the meet- Orleans, La., on November 9-11. The
ing a great success. There were several meeting was ver^' interesting and instructinstruclive
addresses made to the nurses on ive, there being more than a hundred papers
different medica l subjects. read by prominent members of the associatioii
representing every section of the coun-
A resolution was unanimously adopted at
try'.
:he annual meeting of the stockholders of , , , . , . ,
he Anderson County Hospital Among the subjects
Association,
which received espe
.
cial
in the hospital building
consideration
in Anderson,
was that of pellagra.
C, on October l.ith, to double the ca- At the monthly meeting of the Richmond
>acityof the hospiial building, making fifty Academy of Medicine and Surgery held
)eds instead of twenty-five. October 26th in Richmond, Va., Dr. J.
Another resolution provided for several Shelton Horslev read a paper "Report of a
ledsforindigent persons without cost. This caie of Transfusion of Blood," which was
astitution has just completed its first year, very instructive and interesting to the
nd its history has been a most remarkable academy. Dr. R. W. Martin, of Lynchburg,
was expected to be present and ad-
'^'^^^ Work on the hospital at the
^^^ members, but for some reasons he
federal prison
'^^^ Prevented /rom bemg . Atlanta. Ga.,
present
has been
and
begun. It is to
Papers were read
a two-story, stone structure, which
by Dr. Charles R. Robins
is
. cost in the neighborhood of $100,000 ^"'^ ^I^Ouire Newton in the place of
theaddress.
P''
hen completed.
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When completed the new hospital will ^.^t th>s meeting Dr. J A. White, of
R'^hmond,
one of the largest and
was elected chairman of the
most complete in
- - committee on entertainment of the In-State
le South. It is planned that the feder
Medical Association which will be held in
uilding, when finally completed, will ac
)mmodale
Richmond on February the 8th, 1910. Drs.
from 2,000 to 2,.S()0 patients
he hospital is behig t,uilt "on the prison )^'- ]:°"^- C^^rald A. Ezekiel and George
J"^"
r, Ilandley were nominated to membership,
servation.
—» and will be elected at the next meeting.
Governor Ansel, of South Carolina, on n-< r^ \ i ^VJ^- i^ ^ • .•
The Ochmnlgee Medical Association met
:tober 29th, . appointed Dr. H. A. Ilines,
Seneca, and Dr. William Kggleston. of '" ^\';'^^,!:/.'^,' °" ?', ^ fj ^i/ ^^°^
artsville, members of the executive c^m- "/ °" dehvered the address o
'
;;-*'lcome, ^^^'^f and the response on the part of
ittee of the State Boardof Health of South
irolina. vice Dr. J. A. Hayne, of U.reen- Hj^ association was made by J. I. Clark
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