RT Journal T1 MEdical news JF Journal of the American Medical Association JO Journal of the American Medical Association YR 1909 FD May 8 VO LII IS 19 SP 1503 OP 1510 DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540450035011 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540450035011 AB ALABAMA  Personal.  —Dr. Wooten M. Wilkerson, Montgomery, has been elected a member of the board of trustees of the Alabama-Bryce Hospitals.—Dr. William G. Ward, Mobile, has been elected health officer of Mobile county.—The Jefferson County Medical Society, at its meeting April 26, decided to support Dr. Robert B. Harkness as health officer of Birmingham and virtually defied the demand of the city council for the election of another health officer.State Society Meeting.  —At the annual meeting of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama, held in Birmingham, April 20 to 23, the following officers were elected: President, Dr. Wooten M. Wilkerson, Montgomery; vice-presidents, Drs. Robert J. Redden, Sulligent, and Robert L. Sutton, Orrville; secretary, Dr. James Norment Baker, Montgomery; treasurer, Dr. Henry G. Perry, Greensboro, and state health officer, Dr. William H. Sanders, Montgomery, re-elected for a five-year term. A resolution was adopted making it necessary for physicians