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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



884. Massachusetts Public Health Association, 

 Inc. 1 Shattuck Street, Boston 15, Mass. 

 President: Leon Stern f eld. Department of 

 Public Health, City Hall, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Term expires April 1961. Executive Secre- 

 tary: Mrs. Elizabeth K. Caso. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1890. Sections: Epi- 

 demiology, Food and Nutrition, Dental Health, 

 Health Education, Health Officers, Medical 

 Care, Maternal and Child Health, Mental 

 Health, Public Health Nursing, and Sanitation. 



Purpose: To provide an opportunity for per- 

 sons actively engaged in or interested in public 

 health to meet together on a multi-discipline 

 basis to plan and initiate action to maintain or 

 improve public health. 



Membership: Members, 875, interest in 

 public health. 



Meetings: Three times a year. 



Professional activities: In-Service Training; 

 Work Projects. Lemuel Shattuck Award, for 

 outstanding service in public health in the New 

 England area. Paul Revere Award, for out- 

 standing service in public health at local level 

 in Massachusetts. 



Publications: Proceedings, quarterly, current 

 volume: 21, free to members. Editor: Kenneth 

 L E. MacLeod. 



885. Massachusetts Society of Anesthesiologists. 



President: Francis J. Audin, 53 Lowell Road, 

 Wellesley Hills, Mass. Term expires May 

 1961. Secretary-Treasurer : Thomas K. 

 Burnap, 10 Prospect Terrace, Newtonville 60, 

 Mass. Term expires May 1961. 



History: Organized May 11, 1948 and issued 

 a charter as the state component society of the 

 American Society of Anesthesiologists in July 

 of 1948. 



Purpose: To stimulate interest in the specialty 

 of anesthesiology ; to associate and affiliate 

 into one organization those physicians especially 

 interested in anesthesiology ; to encourage re- 

 search, teaching, and develop the specialty. 



Membership: .Active, 290, membership in 

 parent society, membership in local county 

 medical component of American Medical Associ- 

 ation, licensed to practice in this state (excep- 

 tions for Veterans Administration and military 

 service applicants), practice devoted entirely 

 to anesthesiology ; Junior, 70, in-training mem- 

 bers. Total membership 360. 



Meetings: Quarterly. 



Professional activities: Refresher course each 

 March for interested physicians. 



886. Massachusetts Society of Optometrists. 101 



Tremont Street, Boston 8, Mass. President: 

 Alfred D. Hanson, 303 North Main Street, 



Attleboro, Mass. Term expires June 1961. 

 Secretary: David G. MacFarlane, 412 County 

 Street, New Bedford, Mass. Term expires 

 June 1961. 



History: Founded in 1908 as Massachusetts 

 Optical Society ; name changed to present title 

 in 1912; incorporated in 1916. 



Purpose: To advance the art and science of 

 optometry, and interest in its kindred subjects; 

 the promotion of good fellowship ; the inter- 

 change of thought and experience pertaining to 

 optometric theory and practice ; the encourage- 

 ment of research and the elevation of the pro- 

 fession. 



Membership: Members must be registered in 

 the State of Massachusetts and actively engaged 

 in practice. Active, 453 ; Life, 34 ; Honorary, 7 ; 

 Associate, 4 ; Non-resident, 2. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Annual scholarship of 

 $800 awarded to Massachusetts College of 

 Optometry. 



Publications: New England Journal of Op- 

 tometry, monthly, free to members. Editor : 

 William V. Emmons. 



887. Massachusetts Society of Pathologists. 



President: Michael MacKenzie, Maiden Hos- 

 pital, Maiden, Mass. Term expires September 

 1961. Executive Secretary: John M. Craig, 

 Boston Lying-in Hospital, Boston, Mass. 

 Term expires September 1962. 



History: Founded March 20, 1958. Commit- 

 tees : Hospital and Professional Relations, Leg- 

 islation and Public Health Affairs, Autopsy and 

 Technician Liaison. 



Purpose: To foster and maintain the standards 

 of the practice of pathology with particular 

 interest in economic, legislative and administra- 

 tive activities that effect the welfare of the 

 pathologist ; to maintain and enhance the dignity 

 and standing of the specialty of pathology and 

 of the pathologist in his professional relation- 

 ships with patients, hospitals, state and federal 

 government and all other duly organized soci- 

 eties or organizations having reference to the 

 practice or teaching of pathology. 



Membership: Members, 147, limited to Mas- 

 sachusetts physicians holding membership in 

 the New England Society of Pathologists. 

 Regular membership, any physician of good 

 moral character who is devoting himself pri- 

 marily to the practice and/or teaching of path- 

 ology ; Junior membership, any physician of 

 good moral character who has completed one 

 year of pathology training towards the qualifica- 

 tion of the American Board of Pathology. 



Meetings: Four per year. 



Professional activities: Workshops for Mas- 

 sachusetts pathologists. 



