to be divided. The arrangement will be geographical-by States. This will allow the waters of any one place, where there are many springs, to be grouped together, enabling persons to see at a glance the importance of the place as a spring locality. The figures of the production will be given by States for the past twenty years, in periods of five-year intervals.

In the second, or Classified Exhibit, which will also occupy the shelves of one and a half sides of the court, the composition of the various spring waters will be indicated, in accordance with their analyses. The exact proportions of their classifying ingredients will be shown in glass tubelike bottles, which will be grouped in each case around the gallon jar of water which will be the unit or center of each individual exhibit in this subdivision. Accompanying each will be the name and printed copy of the analysis of the water shown. This collection will be arranged according to a scheme of classification which will bring together into groups by themselves the alkaline waters, the alkalinesaline waters, the saline waters, and the acid waters respectively.

The third division, the Resort Exhibit, will consist of maps and photographs, or other pictures, of such spring localities as are used primarily as resorts or bathing establishments. On large maps the springs of the whole country will be shown, graphically depicting their wide distribution. Many springs included here come also under one or both of the first and second divisions, but should also be shown here to make the exhibit complete, especially where the water is not used commercially.

All mineral springs come under all three categories, and it is hoped our California spring owners will furnish not only samples of the water as they are put up for sale, together with a copy of the latest analyses, but also photographs (enlarged, if possible) or other pictures of their establishments showing particularly their utilization as

resorts.

This exhibit has been placed in charge of Dr. A. C. Peale and the committee, and in order to make it a complete success, the assistance of all persons interested is necessary. It is hoped our California mineral spring

owners will grasp this opportunity of making our excellent mineral waters and health resorts known to the world. WINSLOW ANDERSON.

Member Mineral Water Committee for California.

American Public Health Association.

The Thirty-first Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, composed of representatives from the United States of America, the Dominion of Canada, the Republic of Mexico, and the Republic of Cuba, will be held at Washington, D. C., beginning October 26th and continuing for five days. The Executive Committee has selected the following topics for consideration, but papers will be received upon other sanitary subjects: Purification of Water Supplies; Disposal of Industrial Wastes; Purification and Disposal of Sewage; Disposal of Garbage; Animal Diseases and Animal Food; Car Sanitation; Steamboat and Steamship Sanitation; Etiology of Yellow Fever; Tuberculosis; Plague; Demography and Statistics in Their Sanitary Relation; Cause and Prevention of Infectious Diseases; Infectious Period of Communicable Diseases; Public Health Legislation; Cause and Prevention of Infant Mortality; Disinfectants and Disinfection; Production and Free Distribution of Vaccine; Teaching of Hygiene and Granting of Diploma of Doctor of Public Health; Sanitary Aid Societies; Canteen in Armies.

San Francisco Drug Clerks Association.

The San Francisco Drug Clerks Association at its last meeting elected the following officers for the ensuing term: Past President, W. H. Adair; President, E. J. Maloney; First Vice-President, Paul A. Dubois; Second Vice-President, D. L. Perrone; Corresponding and Recording Secretary, O. Eastland; Financial Secretary, J. M. F. Eitel; Treasurer, George M. Sutherland; Guide, P. H. Weiss; Guardian, A. E. O'Neal; Advocate Agent, G. L. Gerard; Trustees, J. H. Hubachek, A. L. Hoag and C. L. Bramen; Delegates to Labor Council, J. H. Hubachek, Fred Driscoll, William Hatch, W. W. Seay and G. M. Sutherland; Business Agent and Manager Employment Bureau, J. H. Hubachek.

Medical Examining Boards for Texas.

The Board of Medical Examiners-J. T. Wilson, M.D., Sherman; J. W. Scott, M.D., Houston; S. R. Burroughs, M.D., Buffalo; J. H. Reuss, M.D., Cuero; D. J. Jenkins, M.D., Daingerfield; M. M. Smith, M.D., Austin; J. H. Evans, M.D., Palestine; S. T. Turner, M.D., El Paso; J. C. Jones, M.D., Gonzales.

Homoeopathic Board of Medical Examiners-J. T. Crowe, M.D., Dallas; F. L. Griffith, M.D., Austin; W. R. Owen, M.D., San Antonio; J. R. Pollock, M.D., Fort Worth; George D. Streeter, M.D., Waco; G. F. Thornhill, M.D., Paris; C. E. Johnson, M.D., Sherman; W. M. Mercer, M.D., Galveston; H. B. Stiles, M.D., Gainesville.

Eclectic Board of Medical Examiners-M. E. Daniel, M.D., Honey Grove; G. W. Johnson, M.D., San Antonio; L. S. Downs, M.D., Galveston; W. J. Bell, M.D., Gainesville; G. Helbing, M.D., Bonham; E. L. Fox, M.D., Houston; C. D. Hudson, M.D., Waco; J. H. White, M.D., Queen City; Charles McDowell, M.D., Ennis.

D'ARCY POWER, M. A., M. B., F. R. C. S. London, has described a new and useful instrument invented by Mr. Colt, of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London, for the introduction of wire into an aneurismal sac. The instrument is so constructed as to coil the wire within the arterial sac and proved to be very useful in one of Dr. Power's cases.

FROM Honolulu comes the news that a result of the report of the United States Senate Committee that visited there last fall, and local agitation, the Board of Health is trying to arrange about sixty divorces at the leper settlement of Molokai, and the assistance of the Attorney-General has been invoked. In all the cases under consideration the husband or wife is at the settlement, while the other person is away. These partitions, according to American Medicine, have resulted in conditions at the settlement that the Senate Committee strongly condemned, and it is the opinion of many that the moral situation would be greatly improved if the lepers were free to intermarry at Molokai. The plan has aroused much local oppositio n, chiefly of a religious nature.-Medical Age.

NOTICE! A part of good office to let for physician. Inquire of Dr. Hodghead, 1025 Sutter St.

Correspondence.

REPLY TO ACCUSATION OF THE SANTA CLARA MEDICAL SOCIETY.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL., Sept. 17, 1903.

TO THE EDITORS OF THE PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL, SAN FRANCISCO

Sirs: In the September number The California State Journal of Medicine saw fit to publish a scurrilous article in the form of resolutions passed by the Santa Clara County Medical Society, and reflecting upon the motives of the Dean of the College of Physicians and Surgeons because of the suit he has brought to oust the State Board of Medical Examiners, and taking advantage of this opportunity to attack the good name of the College. These strictures bear upon their face the insincerity and animus that prompt them, and we would not stoop to a reply except for the fact that a reputable journal has chosen to give them space.

The Santa Clara Society is permitting itself to be used as a tool by its Secretary, Dr. J. L. Asay, who holds a degree in a profession which he does not practice and practices a profession in which he holds no degree. He was at one time connected with the College of Physicians and Surgeons and for good and sufficient reasons he was forced to withdraw. With a number of other malcontents and sore-heads he went into an arbitration before a board of his own choosing. This board, composed of eminent judges, found that there was not a shadow of right in any of the claims made by Asay and his associates, and, after a very lengthy and liberal hearing of the case sustained the College in every particular. Asay was not yet content. He next made a complaint of some thirty odd charges before the National Association of Dental Faculties, backing up these charges with affidavits and abundance of other testimony. The National Association heard his case and dismissed every one of the charges as not proven. It then became necessary for Asay and his cohorts to take another tack. They combined with all the dissatisfied and jealous elements that they could bring together to pass a State medical law, providing that the Board of Examiners should be appointed by the State societies-well knowing that the regular State

organization was owned, body and soul, by a clique that had their own colleges and were inimicable to the interests of the College of Physicians and Surgeons. When this law was passed, the threat was made in the lobbies of the Legislature by these very men that the State Society would teach the College of Physicians and Surgeons a lesson it would never forget. At that session of the Legislature, this College did not oppose the passage of the medical law, but it did contend that the board to be provided by such law should be appointed by the Governor as all other State boards and commissions are appointed.

Things went on until the first examination was given, and, as had been promised by men on the Board of Medical Examiners, a large number of the applicants, who were graduates of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, were refused a license. The cause was that one member on that Board was bitterly against the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and it had been rumored all over the State that he had made the assertion that he intended to prevent the graduates of this school from securing the licenses they were entitled to.

The school bore up under this unfair treatment and went before the Legislature at its next session, attempting to have the State law changed and the appointing power put in the hands of the Governor. It failed again, although twenty Senators voted in favor of the College measure and but fourteen against it, twenty-one votes being required for the passage of the bill.

The College then went to the meeting of the State Society at Santa Barbara, stated these facts plainly to the organization, and pleaded with them to give them a fair Board. This the Society deliberately refused to do, or, rather, returned to the Board the particular member who had been so notoriously unfair.

A year before this time, it may be said, the Dean of the College urged the Board of Trustees to bring action to oust the Board. He pleaded with the attorneys to advise such a course, but the Board, the attorneys and the Faculty decided against him, and it was not until every other form of relief seemed impossible that the final decision was arrived at and the suit was brought.

Now, what does the Santa Clara County Society fear from

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