(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
Foreign Visitors.
—Dr. Wu Lien-Teh, Chinese delegate to the Pan-Pacific Food Conservation Conference, Honolulu (The Journal, August 30, p. 693), Dr. H. C. de Sousa Araujo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and Dr. Max Pantaleoni, Rome, Italy, connected with the health section of the League of Nations, arrived in Montgomery, September 5, to study the public health methods and administration of the state health department.
CALIFORNIA
Society News.
—The sixteenth annual conference of California health officers will be held in Monterey, October 6-10. The Health Officers' Section of the League of California Municipalities was organized in 1909 and has met annually since that time. Health officers and public health nurses, as well as others engaged in health activities, are