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ALABAMA
Personal.
— Dr. Francis Marion Inge, Mobile, has been elected president of the Association of Surgeons of the Southern Railway System.—Dr. John H. Owens, Ashland, has been appointed resident physician at Flat Top prison, to succeed Dr. J. E. Robbins, resigned.—Dr. John M. Hankins, East Lake, has been appointed assistant city physician for Birmingham.
Venereal Disease Clinic in Mobile.
—The city, county and state contribute funds to operate a venereal disease clinic at the City Hospital, Mobile, where treatment is offered all persons who are unable to provide it themselves; in the annual report of the board of commissioners of the city of Mobile, it appears that 3,466 persons were treated at this clinic in 1925, 2,516 of