District Physicians of Santa Barbara County. Dr. E. J. Boeske has been reelected County Physician of Santa Barbara County. The physicians appointed for the districts outside of Santa Barbara are: Dr. J. Will Graham, Fourth Supervisor District, resident of Lompac; Dr. Paul C. Carter, Guadalupe; Dr. H. D. Livingston, Santa Maria and La Graciosa; Dr. James Beard, Los Alamos and Sisquoc; Dr. R. W. Hill, Carpinteria, and Dr. P. R. Stafford, Santa Ynez. Alameda Medical Society. The Alameda County Medical Society held its annual meeting January 12th, and in addition to choosing officers to serve during the coming year elected delegates to represent the society at the State Convention to be held at Paso Robles. The officers and delegates were: Dr. J. Maher, President; Drs. E. N. Ewer and J. M. Shannon, Vice-Presidents; Dr. A. H. Pratt, Secretary; Dr. C. H. Dukes, Treasurer; Drs. L. P. Adams, C. H. Miller and Dudley Smith, Trustees; Drs. C R. Krone, H. G. Thomas, J. L. Milton, A. H. Pratt and O. D. Hamlin, delegates. Millions for New Boston Hospital. The will of the late Peter B. Brigham, of Boston, was sustained by a decision handed down by Justice Lebaron B. Colt, in the United States Circuit Court, on December 30, and the $5,000,000 involved will go toward founding the Brigham Hospital according to the wishes of the testator. The heirs at law contested this provision. San Francisco Polyclinic. The annual election of officers of the San Francisco Polyclinic took place January 19, 1904. Dr. J. Wilson Shiels was elected President; Dr. Leo Newmark, First Vice-President; Dr. Wm. A. Martin, Second Vice-President; Dr. Martin Regensburger, Secretary, and Dr. Louis Bazet, Treasurer. THE Pajaro Valley Sanatorium was destroyed by fire January 9th. The institution was under the management of Charles A. Beebe. The patients were all removed to a place of safety and no one was injured. HER LAST CALL. About three years ago Miss Theresa Klindt was selected from the waiting list of applicants to enter the Training School for Nurses in St. Winifred's Sanatorium. In due time she was installed, beginning, as all beginners must, at the bottom of the ladder. She soon mastered her work. In the course of a year she had proven herself proficient to take charge of greater responsibilities. Miss Klindt was ever faithful. Her single aim was to do her duty intelligently. Day and night, early and late, in emergency work, such as hospitals are frequently called upon to do, Theresa Klindt was ever ready with gentle ministering hands and sympathetic heart. In two years she was in the front ranks of her competitors, and was promoted, with others, to assume still greater responsibilities-the care of the operating rooms. Here she worked with the same intelligence and forethought, the same cheerfulness and affability, the same fidelity and trustworthiness that characterized her life. But as darkness comes after sunshine, so sorrow came after happiness to our little family at St. Winifred's. The willing hands are resting now. The bright mind is sleeping. The loving heart that endeared her to all is still. Her spirit has gone to its eternal home, there to mingle with those good and great ones that have gone before-the heritage of all true and faithful souls. The memory of the departed one will always remain bright in the hearts of the nurses and managers of St. Winifred's Hospital. The emulation of her noble work will stir all of us to better endeavors. We mourn our loss as we miss her cheerful,. sunny companionship, but we feel the world is better because this pure soul lived. PERSONALS. DR. ANDREW BUTLER, of Madera, is dead. DR. A. PETERS contemplates locating at Searchlight, Nev. DR. A. E. HARDIN contemplates locating at Pacific Grove. DR. WELLS, of Oakland, has decided to locate in Pleasanton. DR. F. E. LUMAN, of Colusa, died suddenly January 8, 1904. DR. S. J. HUFF, of Orange, will reside at San Bernardino. DR. A. MILLIKEN, of Oakland, has moved to Oroville, Calif. DR. E. S. O'BRIEN has been appointed Health Officer of Merced. DR. H. N. RUCKER has been appointed County Physician of Merced. DR. WM. M. LAWLOR has located in the Spring Valley Building. DR. A. N. GALL has been appointed Health Officer of Amador County. DR. CHARLES CARLISLE, of Los Angeles, has returned from his Eastern trip. DR. C. W. HARPER, of Redding, has been appointed County Physician. DR. MAURICE PRITCHARD, formerly of Sierra Valley, has located at Reno, Nev. DR. H. BOSWORTH CROCKER contemplates erecting a sanatorium at Healdsburg, Cal. DR. W. H. HOOD, of Reno, has been elected Assistant Superintendent of the Insane Asylum. DR. S. B. CLAYPOOL has located at Roosevelt, Arizona, a new town near the Salt River Dam site. DR. C. W. BAYLEY, of Oakdale, according to press dispatches, contemplates locating at San Jose. DR. JOHN PARKER, of Salinas, who has been quite ill with appendicitis, is reported to be improving. DR. H. O. BATES has returned from his visit to Chicago and is going to make Long Beach his future home. DR. ALICE S. BUSH, of Oakland, was married New Year's Day to ROLLIN K. MORGAN, a New York business man. DR. HAROLD VON DER LIETH has returned from his European trip and located at 369 Sutter Street, San Francisco. DR. ROBERT MORTON, of Dinuba, Tulare County, and MISS LOUISA ROBINSON, of Hanford, were married December 30, 1903. DR. I. M. WEST and DR. JOHN CORNWELL have entered into copartnership to practice medicine and surgery at Red Bluff. DR. THOMAS DARLINGTON, of New York, has been elected President of the Health Department of the City of New York. DR. CARRA B. SCHOFIELD, of Oakland, and MR. HUGH SHAFTER ALDRICH, were married in Oakland the beginning of the year. WE regret to learn that DR. FINSEN, of Copenhagen, wellknown for the discovery of the light treatment of lupus, is dangerously ill. DR. J. M. JESSE, of Santa Rosa, was elected County Physician and Health Officer by the Board of Supervisors January 8, 1904. DR. R. F. PALMER, of Camp Verde, Arizona, has been appointed physician to the Reclamation Service, and will locate at Livingston. DR. R. DONALDSEN, of Berkeley, was struck by a south bound Telegraph Avenue car January 1, 1904, and sustained serious injuries. DR. A. F. MAISCH, a prominent young physician of Globe, Arizona, was married to MISS NINA BRIDWELL of Los Angeles, January 26th. DR. CAMPBELL BILLINGS, of Oceanside, a retired British army officer, was married at Los Angeles January 5th to MISS MARIE LOUISE ALLMAN. DR. A. L. FERRAR, a well known pioneer physician of Petaluma, died January 15, 1904. Dr. Ferrar was a native of Kentucky and was 78 years of age. DR. J. W. HARPSTER, formerly of Livermore Sanatorium, has rented the Sierra Madra Villa Hotel, Pasadina, and converted it into a sanatorium for nervous and mental cases. ACCORDING to press dispatches, DR. HAMILTON FORLINE, of Chicago, hopes to revive the dead by an infusion of normal salt solution with strychnine and organic fluid. The injection is made into the spinal cord. DR. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL arrived at Genoa on December 27. He will convey to the Smithsonian Institution at Washington, D. C., the remains of James Smithson, founder of the institution, who died in Genoa, in 1829. DR. FREDERICK A. STAHLE, of San Francisco, committed suicide January 5, 1904, by inhaling illuminating gas. Dr. Stahle was a graduate of Cooper Medical College; at one time Superintendent of the City and County Hospital, and was a practitioner of some note in San Francisco. NOTES AND NEWS. THE Mellier Drug Company has issued a neat daily memorandum book for 1904. It contains much valuable information and may be had free of charge by physicians. by writing to the company, at 2112 Locust Street, St. Louis, Mo. IN June, 1903, Dr. William Hunter Workman climbed the Himalayas to an altitude of 23,394 feet, the highest altitude reached in mountain climbing to date. Mrs. Workman, who accompanied her husband in his perilous expedition, attained an altitude of 23,267 feet, the highest point a woman ever gained. THE Tri-county Medical Society, composed of medical men of Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, met at Hollister, January 8, 1904, in annual session. The following officers were elected: Dr. P. K. Watters, President, of Watsonville; Dr. L. C. Hull, Vice-President, of Hollister and Dr. Pope, Secretary and Treasurer, of Watsonville, Calif. AT THE annual meeting of the Riverside Medical Society, held at the home of Dr. Outwater, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Dr. C. W. Girdlestone, President; Dr. W. W. Roblee, Vice-President; Dr. H. R. Martin, Secretary-Treasurer. The society adopted a resolution pledging that no member would hereafter give a liquor prescription unless "for actual medical use." THE Nobel prizes, each of the value of about $40,000, were awarded in Christiania, on December 10. The prize in physics was divided between M. Becquerel and M. and Mme. Curie, of Paris. The prize in chemistry was awarded to Professor Arrhenius, of Stockholm; the prize in medicine to Dr. Finsen, of Copenhagen, and the prize in literature to Dr. Björnstjerne Björns en, of Christiania. The formal distribution of the prizes took place in the presence. of the King and several members of the royal family and a distinguished gathering.-Science. |