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SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL SOCIETIES 



Purpose: To secure the enactment and en- 

 forcement of just laws relating to the practice 

 of medicine and the public health. 



Membership: Must be licensed physicians in 

 the State of Maryland. Active members, 2,435, 

 active members of component societies ; Associ- 

 ate, 585, Doctors of Medicine or those holding 

 academic degrees of equal rank who are not 

 engaged in clinical practice of medicine, and 

 Doctors of Medicine engaged in clinical prac- 

 tice and in full-time teaching positions in 

 medical schools having ranks below that of 

 Associate Professor, and Residents on hospital 

 staffs, and members of Baltimore City Dental 

 Society ; Emeritus, 72) ; Fifty- Year, 28 ; Service, 

 31. Total membership 3,152. 



Meetings: Semiannual. 



Publications: Maryland State Medical Journal, 

 monthly, current volume : 9, $3. Editor : George 

 H. Yeager. 



Library: 81,000 volumes. Subject emphasis: 

 medicine. 



894. Medical Association of Georgia. 938 Peach- 

 tree Street, N. E., Atlanta 9, Ga. President: 

 Milford B. Hatcher. Term expires May 1961. 

 Executive Secretary: Milton D. Krueger 

 Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1849. Seventy component 

 county medical societies. Thirty-five scientific 

 and technical committees. 



Purpose: To promote the science and art of 

 medicine and the betterment of public health. 



Membership: Active members, 2,815, Doctor 

 of Medicine degree. United States citizen, 

 licensed to practice medicine in Georgia, mem- 

 ber of county medical society ; Associate, 17, 

 same as Active, but full time with State or 

 county health department, or full time with 

 medical school faculty; Honorary, 1, elected 

 only by official body ; Service, 54, same as 

 active, but applies to full time medical officers 

 with United States Government. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Professional activities: Distinguished Service 

 Award, for service to Association and profes- 

 sion ; Hardman Award, for outstanding work in 

 public health, or outstanding scientific attain- 

 ment in medicine or surgery ; General Practi- 

 tioner of the Year Award, for outstanding 

 service to patients and public ; Scientific Exhibit 

 Awards, for outstanding exhibits portraying 

 some aspects of medical practice at Association's 

 annual meeting. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume : 49, $5. Editor : Edgar Woody, Jr. 



895. Medical Association of the State of 

 Alabama. 19 South Jackson Street, Mont- 

 gomery, Ala. President: Hugh E. Gray, 



Anniston, Ala. Term expires April 1961. 

 Secretary-Treasurer : William L. Smith. 

 Term expires April 1961. Executive Secre- 

 tary: W. A. Dozier. Term indefinite. 



History: Organized 1847; reorganized 1868. 



Purpose: Establishment of a high standard of 

 professional and moral education for medical 

 men; enactment of wise and just laws for 

 examination of all persons who propose to offer 

 their services for treatment of human diseases ; 

 development of a spirit of loyalty to professional 

 ethics. 



Membership: Members of county medical 

 societies holding charters from this Association. 

 Total membership 2,109. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Journal, monthly, current vol- 

 ume : 29. 



896. Medical Correctional Association. Presi- 

 dent: Harry Lipton, 490 Peachtree Street, N. 

 E., Atlanta 8, Ga. Term expires September 

 1961. Secretary: Ralph S. Banay, 927 Fifth 

 Avenue, New York, N. Y. Term indefinite. 



History: Founded in 1940 to bring into one 

 organization psychiatrists, psychologists, social 

 workers, judges, attorneys, and others interested 

 in the scientific approach of the philosophy and 

 practice of correctional aspects of delinquent or 

 criminal behavior. 



Purpose: To disseminate research information 

 and improve practices in correction. 



Membership: Open to individuals with active 

 practice, sufficient background, and a sustained 

 interest in social problems. Total membership 

 270. 



Meetings: Annual. 



Publications: Journal of Social Therapy, 

 quarterly, current volume : 6, $5. Editor : Ralph 

 S. Banay. 



897. Medical Library Association, Inc. Presi- 

 dent: Robert T. Lentz, Jefferson Medical 

 College Library, 1025 Walnut Street, Phila- 

 delphia 7, Pa. Term expires May 12, 1961. 

 Secretary: Miss Ruth J. Mann, Mayo Clinic 

 Library, Rochester, Minn. Term expires May 

 12, 1961. 



History: Organized 1898 as Association of 

 Medical Librarians ; name changed to present 

 title 1907; incorporated 1934. 



Purpose: Fostering of medical and allied sci- 

 entific libraries, and exchange of medical litera- 

 ture among institutional members ; improving of 

 professional qualifications and status of medical 

 librarians. 



Membership: Institutional members, 586, 

 medical and allied scientific libraries of not less 



