Show BALDWIN HEADS UTAH fr ST STATE ATE MEDICAL SOCIETY I Physician Ascribes High Infant Infant In In- fant Mortality to Chronic Diseases of Parents The Time Utah State Medical association featured Its concluding concluding- session at the Hotel Utah yesterday b by elevating elevating- another another another an an- other Salt Lake Lako man to lo tho the presidency of or the organization and selecting the tho capital city as the point at which the annual meeting will be held in 1917 Dr S S. S C. C Baldwin is la the new head of or orthe the tho state medical mens men's bo body Dr J J. J R. R Norrell Is first vice president Dr P.M. P.M. P. P M. M KeSley Kene of or American Fork second vice president Dr D D. D C. C Budge of Logan Losan Lo Lo- Lo- Lo san gan an third vice Ice president Dr T T. A. A Flood I of or Salt Lake treasurer an and Dr H H. 0 Gt O. Merrill of ot Provo councilor for the third district Dr W. W Brown Drown Ewing will continue as secret secretary T only one of or the three years for which he lie was elected elected elect elect- ed having having- elapsed Reading Reading- and discussion of scientific papers occupied the tho greater part of oC the days day's program Dr John Amesse Arnesse of ot Denver read rend a paper on the causes of ot Infantile paralysis In the tho United States where Infant life lire is held hold so cheaply said Dr Amesse the tho high mortality of or children Is largely lars due to chronic diseases of ot their parents parent Poverty and neglect of oC tho the young oung was also declared to bo be e re responsible responsible re- re for or the decimation declination of ot the in infant infant In- In fant tant population In America Good health was declared purchasable and any city which will pay tho the price can have a low dentIn death rate ruto and antI minimum death loss the tho doctor asserted Delc Delegates to tho the state convention wore were guests o of the tho Salt Lake Medical society at a luncheon at the Commercial Commer Commer- cial club Informal tall talks 8 and the tho earnest earnest ear ear- nest discussion of or an elaborate menu made the glad lad Dr H H. H C C. Merrill of ot Provo Prove lo led a discussion discussion discussion dis dis- of ot the paper which was read the thc day before b by Dr Morrell of Og Og- den Subjects treated at the afternoon session wore were Clinical Findings In the Cardiac b by Dr Bertrand Smith of ot Los Angeles This paper evoked a spirited discussion In which the opinion was generally held that called so-called heart disease Is oCten oCten of often oC- oC ten in reality merely the weakening weakening- of r the muscularity of the organ u lar trouble it was stated was wag not necessarily necessarily dangerous unless complicated by other weaknesses The discussion I was led b by Dr W. W R. R Tyndale of or Salt Lake who deprecated the abandonment I of or old methods and the absolute de dependence dependence dependence de- de on tho the stethoscope so generally generally gener goner ally practiced by practitioners Dr Harvey Hl B B. B Beck of or Baltimore read reada a paper on The Tho and Diagnosis of ot the Commoner thies Dr Francis Francl A A. A Goeltz of Salt SaIl Lake concluded the speechmaking with I an address on the progress made mado by the profession during during- the past pat decade Installation of or now new officers ended the I twenty second second annual meeting meeting- I I |