ARKANSAS
Personal.—
Dr. Doris L. A. Baldridge, Conway, has been appointed health director of Faulkner County.—Dr. Arthur C. Curtis, State Sanatorium, has been appointed director of the division of tuberculosis control of the Arkansas State Board of Health.—Dr. John R. Kitley has been reelected mayor of Mayflower for the seventeenth term.
District Meeting.—
The Tenth Councilor District Medical Society was addressed in Fort Smith, September 24, by Major Warner F. Bowers on "Traumatic Chest Surgery"; Major Farris D. Evans, "Traumatic Abdominal Surgery"; Capt. David I. Schwartz, "Management of Compound Fractures," and Lieut. Norman F. Richard, "Nature and Treatment of Shock." All are of Camp Chaffee. The district society is composed of Benton, Washington, Crawford, Sebastian, Scott, Madison, Franklin, Johnson and Logan counties.
CALIFORNIA
Criminal Action Filed Against Impostor Phillips. —
J. W. Williams, San Francisco, representing the state board of medical examiners, has filed a