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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



for the Deaf ; name changed to present title and 

 incorporated in Maryland 1931. 



Purpose: To promote management and oper- 

 ation of schools for the deaf along broadest and 

 most effective lines, and to further and promote 

 general welfare of the deaf. 



Membership: Regular Members, 92, executive 

 heads of schools for the deaf in the United 

 States or Canada ; Associate Members, approx- 

 imately 100, assistant superintendents, principals, 

 or other administrative personnel in such 

 schools ; Honorary Members, 30. Total member- 

 ship approximately 222. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Edgar Allen Fay 

 Award for outstanding literary effort. 



Publications: American Annals of the Deaf, 

 five issues annually, current volume : 105, $4. 

 Editor : Powrie V. Doctor. 



Purpose: To further educational and scientific 

 progress in the specialized field of veterinary 

 public health ; to encourage education, training, 

 and research in veterinary public health programs 

 and practices ; to exchange scientific informa- 

 tion ; to develop a cooperative working relation- 

 ship among those engaged in veterinary and 

 other public health programs. 



Membership: Active Members, graduate vet- 

 erinarians engaged in other than full-time 

 clinical practice in a formal activity related to 

 public health ; Associate Members ; Sustaining 

 Members. Total membership 300. 



Meetings: Annual, in conjunction with 

 American Public Health Association ; a second 

 business meeting held at time of annual meeting 

 of American Veterinary Medical Association. 



Publications: Newsletter, quarterly, free to 

 members. Editor : J. D. Salisbury. 



549. Conference of Municipal Public Health 

 Engineers. President: Tom S. Gable, Nation- 

 al Sanitation Foundation, University of Mich- 

 igan, Ann Arbor, Mich. Term expires Novem- 

 ber 1. 1960. Secretary-Treasurer: Eric W. 

 Mood, New Haven Health Department, 161 

 Church Street, New Haven 10, Conn. Term 

 expires November 1, 1960. 



History: Organized 1939. Committees: 

 Swimming Pools and Bathing Places, Admin- 

 istration of Air Pollution Control Programs, 

 Accident Prevention, Hospital and Institutional 

 Sanitation, Housing and Urban Renewal. 



Purpose: To improve and encourage greater 

 use of the science and practice of environmental 

 sanitation in community life. 



Membership: Professional or graduate eng- 

 ineers engaged in or officially concerned with 

 municipal public health engineering or teach- 

 ing of public health engineering. Total member- 

 ship 220. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Newsletter, quarterly, free to 

 members. Proceedings, annual, free to mem- 

 bers. Publications to non-members, $3. 



550. Conference of Public Health Veterinarians. 



2 East 63rd Street, New York 21, N. Y. 

 President: Robert K. Anderson, College of 

 Veterinary Medicine, University of Minnesota, 

 St. Paul 1, Minn. Term expires November 

 2, 1960. Secretary-Treasurer : Joe W. Atkin- 

 son, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, 

 Md. Term expires November 2, 1960. 



History: Organized 1946. Committees: 

 Legislation, Resolutions, Communicable Dis- 

 eases, Research, and Membership. 



551. Conference of Research Workers in Ani- 

 mal Diseases. President: Cecil Elder, Uni- 

 versity of Missouri, Columbia, Mo. Term 

 expires December 1960. Secretary-Treasurer : 

 Alfred G. Karlson, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, 

 Minn. Term expires December 1960. 



History: Organized in 1920. 



Purpose: To promote interest and maintain 

 high standards in the field of research in animal 

 disease. 



Membership: Limited to research workers 

 actually engaged in research in animal diseases 

 in governmental or endowed institutions. Total 

 membership 400. 



Meetings: Annual. 



552. Conference of State and Provincial Public 

 Health Laboratory Directors. P. O. Box C, 



University Station, Grand Forks, N. Dak. 

 President: Francis C. Lawler, Chief Bureau 

 of Laboratories, State Health Department, 

 Burlington, Vt. Term expires October 31, 

 1960. Secretary: Melvin E. Koons. Term 

 indefinite. 



History: Organized March, 1921 at Atlanta 

 as the Southern Public Health Laboratory 

 Association ; name changed 1927 to State Lab- 

 oratory Directors Conference ; name changed 

 1939 to present title. Sections : United States ; 

 Territories ; Canada. 



Purpose: To promote the development, im- 

 provement, and effectiveness of public health 

 laboratory service ; to coordinate public health 

 laboratory activities ; to stimulate the inter- 

 change of experience among directors of official 

 public health laboratories ; to develop and main- 

 tain adequate standards for the professional 



