PHILIPPINE ISLANDS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 
MINUTES OF THE ELEVENTH ANNUAL MEETING, HELD AT MANILA 
NOVEMBER 4-7, 1914 
OPENING SESSION, NOVEMBER 4, 4.15 P. M. 
The opening session of the eleventh annual meeting of the 
Philippine Islands Medical Association was called to order by 
President N. M. Saleeby at 4.30 p. m. on Wednesday, November 
4, 1914, in the assembly hall of the University Hall, University 
of the Philippines, Manila, P. I. 
The addresses as abstracted by the secretary-treasurer follow: 
OPENING ADDRESS—BY HIS EXCELLENCY GOVERNOR-GENERAL 
FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON 
Governor-General Harrison assured the association, on behalf 
of the Government, of the interest in the deliberations of this 
session for the Bureau of Health, for the Secretary of the In- 
terior, and for himself, and complimented the association on the 
work which it had accomplished in the past and on the high 
standard of the present program. It is to the good offices of 
such associations that the community must look in order to 
secure mutual understanding and helpful codperation between 
agencies and establishments under the Government and those 
which are the result of individual effort or under private control. 
During the past year the genera! health service of the Islands 
has again proved its efficiency and shown progress in many lines 
of endeavor. No investment pays better dividends to any com- 
- monwealth than money expended for the prevention of disease. 
It is believed that the people of these Islands have come to a 
full realization of the fact that the health service is their best 
friend. 
The need of physicians in the Islands is emphasized, and en- 
deavor to cause such distribution of available medical men as 
will bring the greatest good to the greatest number of people 
is mentioned. A similar condition obtains in regard to the prac- 
tice of nursing, and the excellent service of our graduate nurses 
in the Government service and in private practice or employment 
has led to steps to increase the output of nurses in the Training 
School for Nurses of the Philippine General Hospital. The es- 
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