Washington, D. C., March 29, 1909.
To the Medical Profession:
—The following resolution was adopted by the Legislative Council of the American Medical Association at its meeting in Washington, D. C., in January, 1909:
Resolved:
That a committee composed of one member of the Medical Department of the Army, one of the Medical Department of the Navy, one of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, one member of the District of Columbia Medical Society, and one member to represent the profession at large, members of the council, be named by the chairman, and instructed to present to the different medical services of the government, the District of Columbia, and the profession at large the conditions of distress under which the widow of our hero brother, Major James Carroll, is placed, and suggest or help to devise such plan and action as may speedily bring relief.The chairman appointed the following