Maech 20, 1914] 



SCIENCE 



419 



THE OHIO STATE BOABD OF HEALTH AND 

 THE OHIO STATE VNIVEESITY 



The first move in the general plan to in- 

 crease the cooperation of the State Board of 

 Health and the Ohio State University has been 

 to move the oiEces of the former to Page Hall 

 on the university campus. The laboratories 

 are still located at the Hartman building but 

 as soon as the botany building is vacated and 

 remodeling completed, the laboratories will 

 also be moved to the university. It is the in- 

 tention of Dr. E. F. McCampbell, secretary 

 and executive officer of the State Board of 

 Health, to increase the facilities for popular 

 education and for the education of health offi- 

 cers along public health lines. The educa- 

 tional facilities possessed by the university 

 will be of great value in furthering this plan. 



Dr. E. G. Paterson, formerly secretary of the 

 Ohio Society for the Prevention of Tuberculo- 

 sis, is now in charge of the division of tuber- 

 culosis and public health education in the 

 State Board of Health and it is intended to 

 make use of the university in furthering the 

 work of this division. While it is true that the 

 university will be of value to the State Board 

 of Health, the latter will also be of value to 

 the university. 



Dr. Frank G. Boudreau, director of the 

 division of communicable diseases, plans to 

 place at the disposal of qualified medical stu- 

 dents the facilities which his division possesses 

 in the investigations and research work carried 

 on by his department. 



The secretary, Dr. E. F. McCampbell, who 

 is also director of the hygienic laboratories, 

 plans to begin the manufacture of vaccines and 

 anti-toxins as soon as the laboratories are 

 established at the university. This will be 

 done in connection with the university labora- 

 tories and the veterinary department. The 

 public health exhibit of the State Board of 

 Health is now at Coshocton and will show at 

 Uhrichville, East Liverpool, Bellaire, and other 

 points in the northeastern portion of the 

 state in the next two weeks. The exhibit was 

 very successful at Newark and Zanesville and 

 drew large numbers of sightseers daily. A lec- 

 ture on public health is given each evening by 



one of the members of the staff of the State 

 Board of Health. This lecture is illustrated 

 with stereopticon slides and is followed by 

 moving picture films on various subjects. The 

 exhibit comprises photos, aphorisms, cartoons 

 and models illustrating the prevention of 

 tuberculosis, occupational diseases, communi- 

 cable diseases and various phases of sanitary 

 engineering work and other matters pertaining 

 to sanitation. Improvements and new mate- 

 rial have been constantly added to the exhibit 

 and it has been modified in accordance with 

 the effect produced upon various communities. 

 The exhibit was shown before the Columbus 

 Academy of Medicine and the conference of 

 the State Board of Health with city health 

 officers in January, 1914. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS 

 The committee of the Lister memorial fund 

 has commissioned Sir Thomas Brock, R.A., to 

 execute a medallion portrait of the late Lord 

 Lister, to be placed in Westminster Abbey. 



Sir J. J. Thomson has been elected president 

 of the Physical Society of London. 



Professor Ernst Haeckel was ennobled on 

 the occasion of his eightieth birthday. 



Dr. Simon Schwendener, professor of botany 

 at Berlin, has celebrated his eighty-sixth 

 birthday. 



Sdrgeon-General Gorgas, on his return 

 from his mission to South Africa, and his two 

 companions. Dr. Darling and Major Noble, 

 will be entertained at a complimentary dinner 

 in London on March 23. The chair will be 

 taken by Sir Thomas Barlow, president of the 

 Royal College of Physicians, who will be sup- 

 ported by Sir Eickman Godlee, president of the 

 Eoyal College of Surgeons; Sir Francis H. 

 Champneys, president of the Eoyal Society of 

 Medicine; Sir David Ferrier, president of the 

 Medical Society of London; Sir Havelock 

 Charles, president of the Society of Tropical 

 Medicine and Hygiene; by the regius pro- 

 fessors of medicine in Oxford and Cambridge, 

 and by the directors of the medical services of 

 the Eoyal Army and Navy. 



