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ALABAMA
Society News.
—The railroad surgeons of Alabama organized during the annual meeting of the state medical association at Mobile, April 17, electing Dr. Robert L. Sutton, Orrville, president.—The Barbour County Medical Society, Clayton, May 7, was addressed by Dr. Benjamin F. Bennett, Louisville, on urinary disturbances in women.—The student body of the University of Alabama School of Medicine, Tuscaloosa, presented a wrist watch to Henry M. Knower, Ph.D., professor of anatomy, who, it is reported, has resigned.
Health at Birmingham.
—Telegraphic reports to the U. S. Department of Commerce from sixty-four cities with a total population of about 30 million, for the week ending June 8, indicate that the highest mortality rate (17.6) was for Birmingham, and that