Transactions of the Medical Association of the State of Alabama

mendations as to the Board of Health May seem advisable, That the Board of Health shall also make to the Mayor and the Municipal Boards, about the first of every year, a full report of all the operations of the Board for the preceding year, said report to include the vital and sanitary statistics of the city, together with sueh other information as to the Board of Health may seem advisable.

Sec. 14. Be it further ordained, That the Board of Health shall make no expenditures, except such as may be authorized by existing ordinances, or such as may be authorized, from time to time, by special action of the Mayor, or of the Municipal Boards.

Sec. 15. Be it further ordained, That all ordinances and parts of ordinances conflicting with the provisions of this ordinance, be, and are hereby repealed.

PRIZE ESSAY.

MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA,

At the Annual Session of this Association, held at Montgomery during the second week in April, 1875, Dr. S. D. SEELYE, of Montgomery, after some remarks regarding the increasing frequency with which cases of Bright's Disease are brought under medical care in this section, the unsatisfactory though extensive literature of the subjeet, and the generally fatal prognosis which we are obliged to give, rendering it one of the opprobia of the profession; and believing that there is still some hidden light that may be made to illumine the subject if attention and inquiry are turned especially to it, proposed to place in the hands of this Association a prize of one hundred dollars for the best treatise on this disease, under the following regulations, viz;

1st. Competition for the Prize to be open to the whole country. 2d. A committee to be appointed to adjudicate upon the essays presented.

3d. All essays to be forwarded to the chairman of said committee on or before the first day of February, 1876, and to be accompanied by a sealed letter containing name and address of the author, which letter shall not be opened until after the adjudication is made.

4th. The Prize Essay to be the property of this Association, and to be published in its Annual Volume of Transactions ; and all unsuccessful papers to be returned to the address of the authors; honorable mention being made of any deemed of especial merit.

5. If none of the Essays presented are deemed worthy of the prize, the committee shall have the privilege of rejecting all, in which case the competition shall be open for another year.

6th. The prize shall be one hundred dollars in currency, with a certificate of this Association, suitably inscribed, and bearing the seal of the Association; or it will be wrought into a Gold Medal or Plate, with a suitable legend, and a fac-simile of the seal of the Association engraved thereon, to be of the full value of one hundred dollars, less the price of manufacture, at the option of the successful author.

7th. The adjudication shall be publicly announced at the next Annual Meeting of the Association, to be held at Mobile during the second week in April, 1876.

The above proposition having been accepted by this Association, it nou invites from the thinkers and investigators of the profession at large the generous competition which its author invokes.

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