(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.)
ALABAMA
Personal.
—Dr. Henry Green, Dothan, was elected president of the Chattahoochee Medical and Surgical Association at the twenty-ninth annual meeting, July 10; Dr. Green is a past president of the Houston County Medical Society and of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama.—Dr. Lucius S. Nichols, Abbeville, has been appointed health officer of Geneva County, which is now the fifty-second county in Alabama to have a full-time public health service.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
President Hoover Calls Conference on Child Health.
—It was announced, July 2, that President