While the States south of Mason and Dixon's line were far from being on the honor roll in the Red Cross and Liberty Loan Drives, yet they certainly lead all in this report.

OUR CLIMATE NOW AND THEN.

Doctor Jacques W. Redway, Mt. Vernon, New York, one of the world's most noted geographers, has an article in the Medical Times of September, 1918, the title of which is "Hot Spells and Cold Waves."

In the article Dr. Redway says:

"The hot spells of Southern California have a disagreeable feature that is found in only a few places elsewherenamely, the Santa Ana wind. It is a wind born of the desert, and when the mountain passes begin to 'show white' the prudent housekeeper battens doors and windows and prepares for the inevitable. By and by a suspicion of dust comes to the peripheral nerves of the fingers; and then hell is let loose. The blinding storm of dust begins its handiwork. In an hour's time vegetation looks as though swarms of cicadae had

There are many people living in Southern California who have been here several years and have not seen such a storm as is described in this quotation.

Doctor Redway was professor in the Los Angeles branch of the State Normal School some thirty-five years ago and we who lived here in those years remember the frequency of those Santa Anas. From that time on, they grew more and more infrequent, until they are now practically never seen. The cause of this is doubtless the many thousands of orchards where there was formerly semi-desert. This great increase in the acreage under constant cultivation has modified the climate decidedly. The present absence of Santa Anas is the most desirable change of all. We wish Doctor Redway could come out and spend a few weeks in Southern California and see it as it is today.

Dr. D. A. Grew of San Francisco has located in Monrovia.

Dr. John Herlihy of San Diego died at his home in that city December 21, 1918.

A free clinic in an effort to arrest venereal diseases has been established in San Bernardino by the Board of Supervisors of that county.

Dr. L. M. Ryan recently resigned his position as City Health Officer of Banning after holding it for several years.

Dr. Placida Gardner of Los Angeles is one of a committee of three who made a sanitary survey of the line of communications at the front in France. Dr. Gardner is a member of the Leland Stanford University unit.

Dr. L. P. Barbour, who was operated upon for chronic appendicitis a short time ago, has made a rapid recovery.

Dr. E. E. Dotson of Escondido has been released from service in the United States Army at Camp Kearny and resumed his practice.

Dr. Remington of Monrovia received his commission as Major while with the forces in France. It is expected that he will be released before long.

Dr. R. O. Shelton of San Diego, who has been serving in the army at Fort Riley as captain, has secured his release and returned to his practice.

Dr. M. A. Frank, 210 North Soto street, Los Angeles, has been released from service as a surgeon at the base hospital at Camp Cody, New Mexico, and has resumed his practice.

Dr. J. B. Luckie of Los Angeles, who has been in the service at Camp Grant as First Lieutenant in the United States Army, has returned to his home in Pasadena and resumed his practice.

Dr. Charles S. Young, Lieutenant, stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas, has returned, bringing with him his bride, formerly Miss Dack of Cherryville,

Kansas.

Dr. H. R. Martin of Riverside attended the national influenza convention in Chicago of the American Health Association as the official representative of the city and county of Riverside.

"Doctor” Harry S. Tanner, aged 91 and famous throughout the nation for his fasts, died in San Diego December 28. He was a native of England and was bright mentally and physically active until a day or two before his death.

At a meeting of the Ventura County Medical Society held on December 11, 1918, Dr. Edith Lamaree was elected president and Dr. C. A. Jense secretary. This is the first time that a

woman has been chosen president of this Society.

Dr. Stanley P. Black, who has been Health Officer at Pasadena for many years, was suddenly dropped from the position by the Pasadena Commission on December 18, 1918. Dr. Black may well feel proud of his dismissal. It was because he was too energetic in fighting influenza. He should now read Ilsen's "An Enemy of His People” and he would thoroughly sympathize with Dr. Stockwell.

Lieut. Henry V. Bogue, well known as an eye, ear, nose and throat specialist of Los Angeles, died January 9 of influenza at the Mare Island Naval Reserve station. For the last six months he had been a surgeon at the station. He was 35 years old and no man of his years in Southern California had apparently a brighter future. When he left for the service, his colleagues and friends said good-bye to him, thinking that he would come back to them when the war was over and resume his brilliant career. He was given a military funeral at Mare Island on January 11 and his body was brought to Los Angeles for burial. His widow, Mrs. Emma Bogue, was with him when he died. He also leaves a son five years old. He was a graduate of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore.

The California State Journal of Medicine for December says:

"There is the best of theoretic and practical evidence establishing masks as perhaps our strongest single weapon in preventing influenza. We know that influenza, like pneumonic plague, is spread by droplet infection, and we know that they both can be prevented by masking. San Francisco's expеrience demonstrates this conclusively on a large scale. Masking ought to be enforced in every community which desires to eradicate influenza. The mask keeps in the infection in the carrier and ambulant case, and on the other hand excludes infected droplets from the sound person. They are logical, according to our best scientific knowledge. They are practically effective. They ought to be used universally wherever influenza is epidemic."

Colonel William Purviance, distinguished medical officer in the United States Army, and for six years commandant of the general recruiting offices of the army in this city, ended his life recently at his home, 742 South Kingsley Drive, by inhaling gas. The Colonel was suffering from melancholia, due to an incurable disease of long standing and a nervous breakdown of six months ago. Colonel Purviance was born April 3, 1865, at West Lebanon, Indiana, and was a graduate from Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. He entered the army in March, 1892, and was rapidly promoted, becoming Lieutenant-Colonel in 1912, at which time he was Medical Director of the Western Department of the army with headquarters at Fort McDowell, San Francisco. He was retired in August of that year and came to Los Angeles on recruiting duty as Colonel of the line.

We were shocked to read in a clipping from the San Diego Union that Dr. Frederic R. Burnham of San Diego died of pneumonia at his home at 11 o'clock on December 11, 1918. The doctor had been ill for several days, but up to an hour or two before his death, hope was entertained by his relatives and friends. Dr. Burnham was one of California's noblest physicians. As a member and president of the

State Board of Medical Examiners, he did painstaking, intelligent and valuable work for the profession and for the people of the State. While always courteous and considerate, he yet adhered to a high standard of honor and nothing could swerve him from the "straight and narrow way." Still he was not narrow, but broad in his views, cheerful in the face of trials and maintained an attitude of love and sympathy for his fellow-men. The deepest sympathy of the profession of Southern California goes to his widow and son and daughters.

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Fifty Long Beach doctors, with their wives and friends and number of out-of-town guests, had a meeting preceded by a banquet at the Virginia Hotel on the evening of December 20, 1918. Dr. Wm. Duffield, the retiring president of the Los Angeles County Medical Society, talked on the work of the Society in connection with the reconstructions following the war. Dr. Herbert True, for fourteen years Medical Supervisor in the Los Angeles schools, talked on health supervision in schools and dealt on the improvement of the education of the physical forces in the child. The newly elected officers are Dr. Geo. H. Galbraith, president; Dr. B. Oettinger, vice-president; Dr. Frank M. Mikels, secretary-treasurer, and Dr. F. L. Rogers, councillor.

Dr. Herman Silverman, a graduate of the Baltimore University School of Medicine, who was arrested in Los Angeles some months ago on a charge of fraudulent misuse of the mails in connection with a "fake" blood test laboratory, was committed to the State Insane Asylum at Patton on January 2.

SURGEON GENERAL'S REPORT. The Annual Report of the Surgeon General, U. S. Army, for 1918 (including statistics for the calendar year 1917 and activities for the fiscal year

ending June 30, 1918), has just been issued from the Government Printing Office. It contains a comparative study of the health of the Army, 1820-1917; an account of the health of the mobilization camps and of the Army by countries; a consideration (70 pages in extent) of the principal epidemics in the camps; and a discussion of fractures and operations. Nearly 200 pages are devoted to the special activities of the medical department:-with the American Expeditionary Forces, and in the divisions of sanitation, hospitals, supplies, laboratories and infectious diseases, internal medicine, general surgery, orthopedics, head surgery, neurology and psychiatry, psychology, food and the Dental and Veterinary Corps. In addition to the usual tables of illness, discharge for disability and death, there are given tables of battle wounds and operations; of complications of various diseases and of case mortality. The text is illustrated by 73 charts. Altogether the report is a study of health and morbidity in an army of over 1,500,000 men, for the most part yet in the period of training. It should be of interest to epidemiologists, vital statisticians and army medical men.

JOHNSON'S FIRST AID MANUAL. Edited by Fred B. Kilmer, Member International Congress First Aid and Life Saving.

Whatever other works you may have on First Aid, you need Johnson's First Aid Manual. It is practically indispensable wherever injuries occur. Being both scientific and in plain language, it is suitable for physicians and surgeons, nurses, and for the laity who may be called upon to render first aid. In this, the eighth revised edition, the entire subject is brought up to date, and there is added advice for preventing the spread of communicable disIt is a pleasure to recommend such a work.

eases.

GENITO-URINARY DISEASES AND SYPHILIS. Blakiston's Quiz Compend. By Charles S. Hirsch, M.D. Third edition, revised. 59 Illustrations. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. Price $1.50 net.

This volume is in keeping with the usual high character of the Blakiston

Quiz Compends. These little volumes are useful not only to students, but also to physicians. They are brief yet remarkably full, and bring the subject well up to date.

MASSAGE AND SWEDISH MOVEMENTS. By Kurre W. Ostrom, from the Royal University of Upsala, Sweden. Eighth edition, revised and enlarged, with one hundred and twentyfive illustrations. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. Price $1.00 net.

In this revision, the notes of the late Mr. Ostrom were followed as much as possible, except in the consideration of dislocations. The article on these is original. P. Silberberg, G.D., who is really responsible for the revision. It is a useful text-book, especially designed for beginners.

CLINICAL MEDICINE FOR NURSES. By Paul H. Ringer, A.B., M.D., Member of Staff of the Asheville Mission Hospital, Asheville, N. C., and of Biltmore Hospital, Biltmore, N. C. Illustrated. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers. English Depot: Stanley Phillips, London. 1918. Price $2.00 net.

This volume represents the substance of lectures on medical diseases delivered during the past several years at the Asheville Mission Hospital, and is especially arranged for the use of nurses. It is a pleasure to recommend the work to those who view the subject from the standpoint of the nurse.

PAPER WORK OF THE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT OF THE U. S. ARMY. A guide for administrative work. By Ralph W. Webster, M.D., Ph.D., Major, Medical Corps, U. S. Army; Instructor, Basic Military Course, and Adjutant, Camp Greenleaf, Chickamauga Park, Georgia; Formerly Instructor at the Medical Officers' Training Camp, Fort Riley, Kansas; Author of Diagnostic Methods, Chemical, Bacteriological and Microscopical. Approved for publication by direction of the Surgeon-General of the U. S. Army. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. Price $5.00 net.

In this volume there is collected at least the most important papers with which the medical officer will be confronted while on duty with his organization. Indeed, it is a most complete work on the subject. At any rate, if the author has omitted anything, we have failed to discover it. It should