Half-yearly Summary
Abstract
Hygiene Medicalwas heldDirector the societyat Birmingham,the Alabama Society for Mental 8, 1916. Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, adon Feeble-Mindedness, urging that separate care forthis class of defectives be established apart from the insane, and suggesting that a preliminary survey be made of conditions in the state. At this meeting Professor Charles A. Brown, of Birmingham, was elected President, and Dr. William D. Partlow, of Tuscaloosa, was re-elected SecretaryTreasurer.CALIFORNIA.-The Los Angeles Society for Neurology and Psychiatry was organized during April, 1916, with the following officers: President, Dr. Henry G. Brainerd; Vice-President, Dr. Charles Lewis Allen; and Secretary, Dr. Edward H. Williams. Hospital for the Insane, Middletown.-Since summary two houses and lots adjoining the hospital property, and constituting what is known as the Burr property, have been purchased, and the houses altered for the occupancy of patients. They are now used as cottages for convalescent women, affording homelike surroundings for such class of patients. Analysis of the drinking water showed one of the hospital reservoirs contaminated with bacilli coil communis. It was found that a neighboring barnyard and piggery drained into the reservoir, and in order to abate the nuisance the property upon which