(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.)
CALIFORNIA
Joint Meeting.
—The Los Angeles County Medical Association held a joint meeting with the Southern California Medical Society, December 4 and 5, in Los Angeles. The address of the president, Dr. Edward W. Burke, Redland, was on "Medical Readjustments Following the War."
Soldiers Honored.
—A banquet was given at Hotel Alexandria, Los Angeles, December 11, in honor of the members of the Los Angeles County Medical Association who have been in the military service during the world war. About 265 members gave up practice to enter the medical corps, and of this number all but twenty-four have returned.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Changes in Faculty.
—General William H. Arthur, M. C., U. S. Army, has been appointed professor of