January 6, 1922] 



SCIENCE 



15 



Those interested, though not members, are 

 invited to attend. 



PUBLIC HEALTH WORK IN THE PHILIP- 

 PINES 



The Rockefeller Foundation announces that 

 the International Health Board has accepted 

 an invitation to cooperate in carrying out the 

 general scheme of reorganization of the public 

 health activities of the Philippine Islands, 

 whieli was recently made public by the presi- 

 dent of the Senate, Manuel Queson. 



The participation of the board will consist 

 in lending the services of certain members of 

 its staff for a limited period and providing 

 specialists as consultants and assists to Philip- 

 pine government officials in various lines of 

 public-health work. The broad program which 

 the government has adopted for improving 

 health conditions includes the ultimate con- 

 solidation of all health functions in a single 

 department of health to correspond with the 

 ministry of health in other countries. 



Among the persons whose services will be 

 furnished by the Rockefeller Foundation is an 

 assistant to the dean of the College of Medi- 

 cine and Surgery of the University of the 

 Philippines, who will assist in developing the 

 medical school and will give particular atten- 

 tion to the problem of providing post-graduate 

 instruction in public health, so that the health 

 workers so urgently needed in the Philippine 

 Islands may be trained locally. 



Fellowships for advanced studj' in the 

 United States will be offered by the board to 

 exceptionally promising and well-qualified 

 young Filipinos, to fit them for the more 

 important administrative and technical posi- 

 tions in the public-health service and for posi- 

 tions as instructors in the College of Medicine 

 and Surgery and as teachers of nursing. 

 Existing facilities for the training of nurses 

 are said to be inadequate to meet the demand 

 for hospital and jjrivate service. The nursing 

 situation will therefore be studied and special 

 attention given to training women in public- 

 health nursing. 



An assistant will be provided for the 

 director of the Bureau of Science, who will be 

 expected to advise in the further development 

 of that bureau. The Biological Laboratory, 



which is one department of the Bureau of 

 Science, is to be expanded in order to serve 

 as the central public-health laboratory of the 

 Philippines, with local laboratories in the 

 provinces. 



Dr. Victor G. Heiser, director for the East 

 of the International Health Board, and for- 

 merly director of health for the Philippine 

 Islands, who is now in New York, will go to 

 Manila in February to assist in carrying out 

 the program. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The meeting of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science and of the 

 associated scientific societies held at Toronto 

 from December 27 to 31 was notable both for 

 the scientific programs and for the admirable 

 arrangements made for the entertainment of 

 members. The total registration was over 

 1,800, which is about twice the number antici- 

 pated. Large audiences were present at the 

 general sessions at which Dr. L. 0. Howard 

 gave the address of the retiring president and 

 Professor William Bateson spoke. The Uni- 

 versity of Toronto conferred its honorary doc- 

 torate of science on Professor Bateson, Dr. 

 Howard and Professor E. H. Moore, the presi- 

 dent of the association. "We hope to publish 

 the permanent secretary's report of the meet- 

 ing in the next issue of Science. Officers were 

 elected as follows : 



President 

 J. Playfair McMurrich, professor of anatomy 

 in the University of Toronto. 

 Vice-presidents and Chairmen of the Sections 

 Section A (Mathematics) : G. A. Miller, Uni- 

 versity of Illinois. 

 Section B (Physics) : Frederick A. Saunders, 



Harvard University. 

 Section C (Chemistry): W. Lash Miller, Univer- 

 sity of Toronto. 

 Section E (Geology and Geography) : Charles 



P. Berkey, Columbia University. 

 Section F (Zoological Sciences) : Maynard M. 



Metcalf, Oberlin College. 

 Section G (Botany) : Francis E. Lloyd, MeGill 



University. 

 Section I (Psychology): Eaymond Dodge, Wes- 



leyan University. 

 Section K (Social and Economic Sciences) : 

 Henry S. Graves, Washington, D. C. 



