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ALABAMA
Society News.
—The tenth annual meeting of Alabama county health officers in Montgomery, October 14, was presided over by the president, Dr. Louis E. Broughton of Andalusia. Following the speech of Governor Graves on the fight the state has made against the hookworm, Dr. Winfield K. Sharp, Jr., Nashville, Tenn., spoke on the fundamentals of county health work. Among other speakers was Dr. Stuart Graves, acting state health officer during the illness of Dr. Douglas L. Cannon, who said in a closing talk that he came to Alabama largely through the influence of the late Dr. Samuel W. Welch, who visualized for him the new era of cooperation between all departments and agencies of the state