The trachoma bill provides for the segregation of trachomats, and, under certain circumstances, for the maintenance by the State of special schools for their education in school districts having as many as 20 trachomats.
There is also drafted and ready for introduction a bill requiring all persons who seek to practice medicine in any form whatever to pass the regular examination before the State Board of Medical Examiners.
There is in contemplation a bill for the purpose of procuring certain lands for the building of cottages thereupon and establishing farms to be worked by lepers who may be or shall have been committed to the leprosarium farm, the intention being that those lepers in the State that are able to work shall have an opportunity to do so, and that the said lepers should care for lepers who are unable to work or earn a living. It is also proposed to purchase a small tract of land not far from the State University for the purpose of allowing an exhaustive study of certain forms of leprosy with the aid of the State University Medical Staff. The leprosarium farm would be under the direction of the State Agricultural School.
The Chairman of this Committee will be very glad to receive advice and suggestions from the physicians in the State.
Cornelius Williams, M. D.,
Chairman of the
Committee on Public Policy and Legislation.
St. Paul, Minn., February 3, 1915.
REPORTS OF SOCIETIES
MINNESOTA ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
The Academy met at the St. Paul University Club, Feb. 3. Dr. C. M. Carlaw presided.
Four doctors were proposed for membership: Drs. W. H. Condit and Stephen Baxter, of Minneapolis, and Drs. Wilhelm Lerche and F. C. Schuldt, of St. Paul. All four names were referred to the executive committee.
Dr. Arnold Schwyzer showed some x-ray pictures of a penetrating gastric ulcer. He also made a report of a case where gall-stones gave a feeling of emphysematous crackling, due to small marble-sized stones with no more fluid than enough to fill the spaces between the stones (perhaps a teaspoonful in all).