(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.)
ALABAMA
Tuberculosis Association Formed.
—The annual meeting of the Baldwin County Medical Association was held at Fairhope, October 3, under the presidency of Dr. V. McReynolds Schowalter. A committee of Baldwin citizens also met and organized the Baldwin County Antituberculosis Association, with Drs. George C. Marlette, county health officer, and Gaines C. McCrary, Foley, as members.
CALIFORNIA
Hospital News.
—The second unit of the new St. Francis Hospital building, Santa Barbara, is nearing completion. It will be finished the latter part of November. Building will consume the $140,000 the committee has in hand, and additional funds will be necessary to complete and equip the institution.—The new hospital at Groveland, erected for the Hetch Hetchy Water Supply Company, was opened,