The annual meeting of the State Public Health Association was held in Little Rock April 28-30. Dr. Frances Sage Bradley, of the Children's Bureau, Washington, spoke on child welfare, and Dr. John Stewart, Superintendent, State Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Booneville, discussed the needs of better hospital facilities for the state.

At the annual meeting of the State Medical Association held in Hot Springs early in May, the following officers were elected : Dr. C. H. Cargue, Bentonville, President; Dr. Don Smith, Hope, First Vice President; Dr. A. W. Elton, Newport, Second Vice President; Dr. J. O. Rush, Forrest City, Third Vice President; Dr. W. R. Bathurst, Little Rock, Secretary; Dr. R. L. Saxon, Little Rock, Treasurer. The 1922 meeting will be held in Little Rock.

    Dr. T. W. Woodul, Pine Bluff, has been appointed Health Officer for Jefferson County to succeed Dr. E. C. McMulIen.

    Dr. W. J. Reynolds, Fayetteville, has been elected President of the City Board of Health; H. E. Cravens was elected Secretary, and Dr. F. T. Morrow elected to membership.

    Dr. W. F. Smith, Little Rock, has been elected President of the staff of the Baptist Hospital; Dr. W. D. Rose waa elected Secretary; Dr. Anderson Watkins, Chief of the Surgical Staff; Dr. A. C. Shipp, Chief of the Obstetrical and Gynecological staff; Dr. M. E. McCaskill, Chief of the Pedatrie Staff.

Officers elected for the Arkansas County Medical Society are as follows: Dr. R. H. Whitehead, Gillett, President; Dr. C. W. Rasco, Vice President; Dr. M. C. John, Stuttgart, Secretary-Treasurer.

    Dr. C. W. Garrison, Little Rock, State Health Officer, has announced that Arkansas will receive $15,000 a year for malaria control work, through cooperation with federal and international health agencies.

Deaths

Dr. S. P. Vaughter, Little Rock, died May 4.

Dr. D. A. Jackson, Vick, aged 69, died February 18.

    Dr. Perry Crittenden Williams, Siloam Springs, aged 62, died April 3 from nephritis.

Dr. H. L. Jacobs, Harrisburg, aged 69, died April 10.

Dr. James M. Daly. Little Rock, aged 62, died April 17 from cerebral hemorrhage.

    Dr. Jacob William McClendon. Hot Springs, aged 63, died April 12.

    Dr. William Thomas Boyce, Lockesburg, aged 80, died April 1.

    Dr. M. C. Graham, Marmaduke, accidentally shot and killed himself April 29, while hunting rabbits.

Dr. Edward Hamilton Martin, Hot Springs; Medical Coll. of Ohio. Cincinnati, 1887; aged 66; member American Medical Association. Southern Medical Association. Arkansas State Medical Society, Garland County Medical Society, TriState Medical Association of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee (Près. 1899), Tri-State Medical Association of Texas. Arkansas and Louisiana (Près. 192l ), Medical Association of the Southwest (Près. 1918). Mississippi State Medical Association (Près. 1906), Organizer Clarksdale (Miss.) and Six Counties Medical Society ; organized The Martin Clinic, January 1920, which will be continued by his staff; died May 5 from angina pectoris.

Source:  Southern Medical Journal, 1921; contributed by Tina Easley.