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training of public health laboratory personnel; 

 to encourage constant effort toward the im- 

 provement and standardization of technical 

 methods ; to collect and make accessible to all 

 persons in official administrative positions in 

 public health laboratories such information and 

 data as might be of assistance to them in the 

 proper fulfillment of their duties. 



Membership: Members, representatives from 

 State, Provincial, Territorial, and Federal gov- 

 ernments of the United States and Canada, and 

 directors, or responsible assistants to directors, 

 of official public health laboratories ; Associate 

 Members, teachers in institutions of higher 

 learning engaged in training of laboratory per- 

 sonnel ; Affiliated Members, same requirements 

 as for Members, except from countries other 

 than the United States and Canada. Total 

 membership over 400. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Kimble Methodology 

 Award, presented for fundamental contribution 

 published, for development of diagnostic methods 

 which fall within the province of the public 

 health laboratory, or the adaptation of a fun- 

 damental contribution to make it of use in a 

 diagnostic laboratory, $1000 and suitable en- 

 graved plaque. 



Publications: Public Health Laboratory, bi- 

 monthly, $2, free to members. Editor : Francis 

 C. Lawler. 



553. Conference of State Sanitary Engineers. 



Kentucky State Department of Health, Louis- 

 ville 2, Ky. President: Dwight F. Metzler, 

 State Board of Health, Topeka, Kans. Term 

 expires May 1962. Executive Secretary: 

 Ralph C. Pickard. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1920. Committees: Air 

 Pollution ; Accidents ; Environmental Problems 

 in Metropolitan Areas; Migrant Labor; Milk 

 and Food Sanitation ; National Water Policy ; 

 Radiological Health; Recruitment and Train- 

 ing ; School Sanitation ; Sewage and \\'aste 

 Disposal ; Swimming Pools and Bathing Places ; 

 Vector Control ; Water Supply ; and Long 

 Range Planning. 



Purpose: To promote public health in all 

 phases ; to coordinate public health engineering 

 activities of official State and territorial health 

 organizations ; to encourage interchange of ex- 

 perience among State sanitary engineers in offici- 

 al administrative positions ; to make available 

 to all such officials information and data which 

 might assist them in fulfillment of their duties. 



Membership: Members, 51, chief sanitary 

 engineering officials of the States, territories, 

 and possessions of the United States, and the 

 Chief Sanitary Engineering Officer of the U. S. 

 Public Health Service ; Associate Members, 



125, persons employed in responsible positions 

 as assistants or colleagues of Members ; Affili- 

 ated Members, 9, representatives from other 

 countries engaged in sanitary engineering in 

 executive capacities under official health depart- 

 ments. Total membership 185. 



Meetings: Biennial. 



Publications: Transactions, biennial, current 

 volume : 36, free to members. 



554. Conference of Utility Cominission Eng- 

 ineers. President: Frederick M. Hoppe, 

 Michigan Public Service Commission, Lans- 

 ing, Mich. Term expires May 1961. Secre- 

 tary-Treasurer: R. L. Lloyd, National Bureau 

 of Standards, Washington 25, D. C. Term 

 expires May 1961. 



History: Founded 1923; adopted first consti- 

 tution 1950. Sponsored by the National Bureau 

 of Standards 1923 to 1959; currently sponsored 

 by the National Association of Railroad and 

 Utility Commissioners. 



Purpose: To promote effective and fair 

 utility regulation in the public interest. 



Membership: Technical staff personnel of 

 commissions and regulatory bodies which may 

 be Federal, State, or of the Provinces of Canada. 

 Total membership approximately 300. 



Meetings: Annual. 



555. Conference on Electrical Insulation. 2101 

 Constitution Avenue, N. W., Washington 25, 

 D. C. Chairman: S. I. Reynolds, General 

 Electric Company, P. O. Box 1088, Schenec- 

 tady, N. Y. Term expires October 31, 1961. 

 Secretary: J. Sticher, Detroit Edison Com- 

 pany, 2000 2nd Avenue, Detroit, Mich. Term 

 expires October 31, 1961. 



History: Established within the Division of 

 Engineering and Industrial Research, National 

 Academy of Sciences-National Research Coun- 

 cil, in 1920. 



Purpose: To promote fundamental knowledge 

 of the properties of electrical insulation and to 

 maintain a digest of the scientific literature on 

 this subject. 



Membership: Individuals engaged in research 

 or development in the fields of dielectrics and 

 insulation. Membership application subject to 

 approval by the Membership Committee. Total 

 membership 400. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Digest of Literature on Dielec- 

 trics, annual, current volume : 23, $8. Annual 

 Report, $4. 



556. Conferences of the Surgeon General, Pub- 

 lic Health Service, with the State and 



