(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.)
ARIZONA
Society News.
—At the annual meeting and banquet of the Yavapai County Medical Society at Prescott, January 8, Dr. Rembert H. Thigpen, Jerome, was elected president; Dr. John W. Flinn, Prescott, vice president, and Dr. Clarence E. Yount, Prescott, secretary-treasurer.—Dr. Winfred Wylie, head of St. Joseph's Hospital staff, Phoenix, spoke on the "Proposed Act Authorizing the Court to Appoint Medical Experts," before the Maricopa County Medical Society, January 5.
ARKANSAS
Dr. Bradley Resigns.
—Dr. Frances Sage Bradley, Little Rock, has resigned as director of the bureau of child hygiene of the Arkansas State Board of Health.
CALIFORNIA
Smallpox Epidemic.
—Smallpox has become epidemic in southern California and is prevalent in sections of Los Angeles and vicinity, it was