PUBLIC
1913.
I desire to recognize gratefully the assistance I have received from members of the Society, and especially to thank Mr. L a w t o n for his valuable services in connection with the monthly issue of the Journal. I an], Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, S H I R L E Y F. M U R P H Y , EDITOR.
REPORT
OF THE
ttON LIBRARIAN.
SESSION 1912-13 . To the Coutzcil of the Society oJ Medical @ricers of Health. GENTLeMRN,--I have the pleasure of reporting that your library has been greatly increased during the past session. Thanks to the generosity of Mr. J. Reynolds Sykes, practically the whole of the library of his father, the late Dr. J. F. J. Sykes, has been presented to the Society, together with two valuable bookcases. The collection, consisting of 379 volumes and 68 cases of papers collated under various headings dealing with public health, is being added to the library catalogue. I also have the pleasure of recording the acceptance of the kind offer of Dr. J. Ashburton Thompson, chief medical officer to the Government of New South Wales, to donate to the Society a complete bound set of the Local Government Board Reports. And the thanks of the Society are also due to Dr. Shrubsall for a number of copies of the transactions of the Royal Society of Medicine. During the past session there have been received 274 copies of reports from members of the Society and Government Departments, and 30 volumes have been contributed through the medium of PUBLIC HEALTH. One small bookcase has been purchased during the session, and arrangements are being made to bind up a number of the paper-cover editions. I am, G e n t l e m e n , Yours faithfully, WM. B U T L E R , Hon. Librarian.
THE SOCIETY OF MEDICAL OF HEALTH. SE.SSlON I913-I 4.
OFFICERS
REPRESENTATIVES ON COUNCIL. EASTERN BRANCH. President . . . . . . Dr. j. T. C. Nash. Elected Re,brescia~afire Dr. A. M. N. Pringle. Horn Secretary ... Dr. A. N. Stevens.
l°resident
HOME COUNTIES BRANCH. ...... Dr. A. G. R. Foulerton.
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HEALTH,
Dr. H. Beale Collins. Elected teeprese~datives Dr. S. C. Lawrence. ~Dr. A. E. Porter. Hon. Secret.~ 7 ... Dr. G. F. Buchan. ~IETROPOLITAN BRANCH. President ...... Dr. L. T. F. Bryett, Elected Representatives (Dr. A. \V. Harris. 1.Dr. P. Caldwell Smith. lion. Secretary ... Dr. Charles Porter. MIDLAND BRANCH, Presidelzt . . . . . . Dr. G. Petgrave Johnson. Elected Representatives {Dr. T. Ridley Bailey. Dr. H. Handford. Hon. Secretary ... Dr. E. H. Snell. NORTHERN BRANCH. President . . . . . . Dr. S, G. Mostyn. Elected R@resentative Dr. J. W. Hembrough. Hon. Secretary ... Dr. John Taylor. NORTtI-WESTERN BRANCH. President . . . . . . Dr. H. H. I. Hitchon. , Dr H . I . Hitchon. Elected Re~breseutatizes { Dr" H. • Meredith Young. Hon. Secrelary ... Dr. T. W. N. Barlow. SCOTTISH
BRANCH.
t'resideltt . . . . . . Dr, A. Maxwell Williamson. Elected Representative Dr. A. K. Chalmers. Hon. Secretary ... Dr. G. G. Buchanan. SOUTHERN BR&NCH. President . . . . . . Dr. Duncan Forbes. Elected Representative Dr. R. E. Lander. Horn Secretary ... Dr. J. A. Gibson. WEST
OF ENGLAND
AND
SOUTH
WALES
BRANCH.
Dr. Herbert Jones, Elected Representatives l Dr. J. T u b b Thomas. ( Dr. ~,V. H. Symons. lion. Secretary ... Dr. J. H o w a r d Jones. President
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YORKSHIRE BRANCH, ...... Dr. J. A. Sutherland. • Dr A. Sutherland. Elected R@resentat,ves { Dr" J" • J. Mitchell Wilson. Hon. Secretary ... Dr. J. R. Kaye.
President
E a s t e r n B r a n c h . - - A meeting of the Branch was held, on July I6th, at Norwich Guildhall, Dr. H. C. Pattin in the chair. (x) The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. (2) The report of the Hon. Treasurer was confirmed and signed by the Chairman. (3) The following officers were re-elected for the forthcoming session :--President, Dr. J. T. C. N a s h ; Representative, Dr. A. M. N. Pringle; Hon. Sec. and Treasurer, Dr. A. N. Stevens. (4) An address by the PRESIDENT (Dr. J. T. C. Nash) on " The Evolution of Epidemics,":'.: being a brief pr6cis of the author's Chadwick Lectures, was, in his unavoidable absence, read by the Hon. Secretary. ...............
~ Pu~l~h-~t i n t h e pre~ent i~sue.