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ARIZONA
Medical Examiners Inactive Until 1929.
—There will be no meetings of the board of medical examiners of Arizona and no licenses to practice issued, it is reported, until after the session of the state legislature in the early part of 1929. The last legislature, the eighth, failed to appropriate fees for the use of the board, and is therefore responsible for this period of inactivity.
CALIFORNIA
Old State Board Passes Out.
—After about fifty-seven years of continuous operation, the California State Board of Health passed out of existence, July 28, and was succeeded, in accordance with recent law, by the state department of public health. Dr. Walter M. Dickie, Berkeley, secretary of the old state board, has been