(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.)
ARKANSAS
Personal.
—Dr. Benjamin D. Luck, Pine Bluff, was recently made a member of the state board of nurse examiners, succeeding Dr. Mahlon D. Ogden, Little Rock.—Dr. Allen B. Jemison has been elected director of the Jefferson County Health Department, succeeding Dr. George A. Hays, resigned.
Society News.
—At the meeting of the First Councilor District Medical Society in Piggott, May 24, speakers included Drs. Joel C. Land, Walnut Ridge, on asthma; William T. Black, Memphis, Tenn., uterine bleeding; Robert Lyle Motley, Memphis, heart disease, and Junius B. Futrell, Rector, obstetric complications.
CONNECTICUT
Professor Ferris Resigns.
—Dr. Harry Burr Ferris has resigned as professor of anatomy and head of the department at Yale University School of Medicine, a position