Current Comment

HEARINGS ON HEALTH LEGISLATION  With the beginning of the recent hearings on health legislation by the Subcommittee on Health of the Committee on Labor and Public Welfare, the importance of the situation and general medical interest seemed to warrant a full report in The Journal such as has been included for previous hearings. However, both legislators and the medical profession seem to have lost much of their interest in these hearings, and reports indicate that hardly a visitor attended the hearings during the last three or four weeks before they were adjourned. Accordingly, The Journal discontinues the publication of the condensation of the hearings. Those who are especially interested may obtain the full reports which will no doubt be made available as in the past by the Government Printing Office. Copies may also be obtained through the Washington office through Dr. Joseph S. Lawrence, 1302-18th Street, N.W., Washington 6, D.