(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
Dr. Grote Resigns.
—Dr. Carl A. Grote has resigned as city and county health officer for Huntsville and Madison County to accept a similar position in Greensboro, N. C. Dr. Grote has been in charge of the health department at Huntsville for five years and was president of the Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club. He succeeds Dr. Harry Brockman. Dr. Burton F. Austin, Decatur, county health officer of Morgan County, will succeed Dr. Grote as health officer of Madison County.
CALIFORNIA
Personal.
—Dr. Lester E. Tretheway, Manteca, has been appointed a member of the county board of health.—Dr. David Starr Jordan, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif., has been awarded the Order of the Rising Sun