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42 The Health Bulletin June, 1951an hourly basis, and the dentists willaccept a rate which will be less thantheir usual remuneration.3. Children who receive the service areto be certified by the welfare departmentas being financially unable to pay fordental service.4. The service is to consist only of thefollowing treatments: extractions, simplefillings, prophalaxes, silver nitrate treatments,and the topical application ofsodium flouride; with the relief of painand extractions having the priority.Trial programs have been inauguratedin several counties. Reports indicate thatthey are proving satisfactory. Dr.Branch, has, in the last few months,travelled from one end of the State tothe other, meeting with school, publichealth, and dental groups. He has beenmost successful in securing the interestand cooperation of the private practitionersin this emergency measure.Of necessity the setting up of this supplementarycorrective program has requiredtime and attention. Lest it appearthat there has been a change ofemphasis, we wish to reaffirm our adherenceto the principles that publichealth's sphere is in the field of preventionand that education is the most effectiveapproach to the problem of prevention.The Division of Oral Hygieneis endeavoring to attain its objective,the reduction of the incidence of dentaldefects and of systemic diseases of dentalorigin, by a program of dental healtheducation in the elementary schools ofthe State.VENEREAL DISEASE EXPERIMENT-AL LABORATORY—Harold J.Magnuson,Sr. Surgeon, Medical Officer inCharge, Chapel HUl, N. C.The Venereal Disease ExperimentalLaboratory, which functions as a fieldstation of the U. S. Public Health Serviceand as the Department of ExperimentalMedicine at the School of PublicHealth, University of North Carolina,as of May 15, 1950, was able to occupythe new quarters provided by act of theState Legislature, H. B*. 31, Chapter1248, 1949.As in the past, chief emphasis hasbeen upon basic research in the field ofvenereal diseases, with various membersof the staff providing institutional andconsultation services within the Schoolof Public Health, University of NorthCarolina. The type of work underway isbest summarized in the following listof publications by staff members duringthe past year.List Of Publications1. Magnuson, H. J., Thompson, F. A.,Jr., and Rosenau, B. J. The Effect ofSubcurative Penicillin Therapy Uponthe Rate of Development of AcquiredImmunity in ExperimentalSyphilis Am. J. of Syph., Gonor.,and Ven. Dis., Vol. 34, pp. 219-226,May, 1950.2. Tauber, H., Chymotrypsin Inhibitionby Human Serum in Health andDisease, Proc. Soc. for Exp. Biol, andMed., Vol. 74, pp. 486-489, July, 1950.3. Doak, G. O. and Jaffe, H. H., Disproportionationof Aromatic StibosoCompounds. II. Methods of Synthesis,J. Am. Chem. Soc, Vol. 72, pp.3025- 3027, July, 1950.4. Jaffe, H. H., and Doak, G. O., Disproportionationof Aromatic StibosoCompounds. III. Effect of Structure,J. Am. Chem. Soc, Vol. 72, pp. 3027-3029, July, 1950.5. Arnold, R. C, Wright, R. D., andMcLeod, C, Reinfection in ExperimentalSyphilis in Rabbits FollowingPenicillin Therapy. IV. The Developmentand Character of Immunityin Latent Syphilis, Am. J.of Syph., Gonor., and Ven. Dis., Vol.34, pp. 327-330, July, 1950. (Thiswork was done at the Venereal DiseaseResearch Laboratory, StatenIsland. Dr. McLeod was a memberof our staff at time of publication.)6. Doak, G. O., The Heterocyclic Derivativesof Phosphorus, Arsenic,Antimony, Bismuth and Silicon byGeorge Frederick Mann, J. Am.Chem. Soc, Vol. 72, p. 4335, September,1950. (Book review)7. Thompson, P. A., Jr., Greenberg, B.G., and Magnuson, H. J., The RelationshipBetween Immobilizing and