(Physicians will confer a favor by sending for this department items of news of more or less general interest: such as relate to society activities, new hospitals, education, public health, etc.)
ILLINOIS
Chicago
Personal.
—Dr. Martin B. Jelliffe, formerly of Mansfield, Ohio, who was recently discharged from the Medical Corps, U. S. Army, has located in Springfield.—Dr. Edmund J. Doering, Chicago, has been commissioned Lieut.-Col., M. C., U. S. Army.
INDIANA
Venereal Disease Clinic.
—Dr. William F. King, Acting Asst. Surg., U. S. P. H. S., Indianapolis, announces the opening of the fifth free venereal disease clinic of the state at East Chicago. The other clinics are at Evansville, Anderson, Muncie and Indianapolis.
Society Organized.
—Physicians of Ripley County met in Osgood, recently, and organized the Ripley County Medical Society, and elected Dr. Lafayette T. Cox, Napoleon, president; Dr. John N. Hess, New Marion, vice president, and Dr. Edward D.