mentally disordered and defective in the State of New York than any of his predecessors within my recollection. I make this statement from a pretty intimate acquaintance with the conduct of the State hospitals, extending back half a century." THE COURT CLINIC "Science and psychiatry instead of steel and force point the way toward prevention of crime," said Judge William Allen of the Court of General Sessions of New York City recently, according to the New York Sunday World. The court clinic as conducted by the Neurological Institute for the last eighteen months has been of great service to me in determining the degree of mental responsibility of prisoners, and I hope that the clinic will be made a permanent feature as an adjunct to the criminal courts. Judges, probation officers and the Parole Board should have complete information regarding the mental condition of prisoners if they are to cope intelligently with delinquents and with the crime problem in general." PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL AT SYRACUSE State Architect Sullivan W. Jones is preparing plans for the State Psychiatric Hospital at Syracuse which is to be built next year. The cost is to be met out of the $300,000 bond issue allotment made by the last Legislature. The new hospital which will be operated in cooperation with the Syracuse hospital and Syracuse University will be a research and teaching center and will treat incipient mental disorders. COMMITTEE ORGANIZED FOR MEMORIAL TO DR. SALMON A committee has been formed to prepare a memorial to Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, professor of psychiatry at Columbia University, and the first medical director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, who, in August was drowned while sailing on Long Island Sound. The chairman of the committee is Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, medical director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, and the treasurer, Dr. Samuel W. Hamilton, assistant medical director, Bloomingdale Hospital, White Plains. The function of the committee is to consider plans proposed for a memorial and to receive funds for this purpose. Other members of the committee are: Dr. George S. Amsden, professor of psychiatry, Union University; Dr. A. A. Brill, New York University; Dr. Sanger Brown, II, assistant commissioner, State Department of Mental Hygiene; Dr. Louis Casamajor, professor of neurology, Columbia University; Dr. Thomas K. Davis, assistant professor of Psychiatry, Cornell Uni versity; Dr. Menas S. Gregory, director, Psychiatric Pavilion, Bellevue Hospital; Dr. C. Floyd Haviland, medical superintendent, Manhattan State Hospital; Dr. J. Ramsay Hunt, adjunct professor of neurology, Columbia University; Dr. Smith Ely Jelliffe, editor, Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, New York; Dr. George H. Kirby, director, State Psychiatric Institute, Ward's Island, New York; Dr. Charles I. Lambert, associate professor of psychiatry, Columbia University; Dr. Sylvester R. Leahy, Brooklyn, New York; Dr. Mortimer W. Raynor, medical director, Bloomingdale Hospital; Dr. Wm. J. Tiffany, medical superintendent, Kings Park State Hospital; Dr. Edwin G. Zabriskie, attending neurologist, Neurological Institute, New York; Dr. Clarence O. Cheney, medical superintendent, Hudson River State Hospital; Dr. William C. Garvin, medical superintendent, Binghamton State Hospital; Dr. Milton A. Harrington, consultant in mental hygiene, Dartmouth College. NOTES -Ground was broken for the new building of the Neurological Institute of New York at the medical center October 19, 1927. -Dr. Dean Lewis of Baltimore and Dr. John B. Walker of New York City, distinguished surgeons, have recently been appointed members of the Medical Council of the United States Veterans' Bureau. -A so-called intelligence test for parents prepared by Dr. Bess V. Cunningham of Teachers College, Columbia University, is being distributed by the State Charities Aid Association of New York City. The test in reality is an examination in the elementary principles of child management. -The Fourth Annual Conference of Special Agents of the Department of Mental Hygiene was held in the office of the Commission at Albany, October 13, 1927. Addresses were made by Commissioner Parsons, Deputy Attorney General George V. Fleckenstein, and papers were presented by John L. Warner, Harry Sylvester and Frank P. Hoffman, special agents of the Department. John F. O'Brien, head of the Collections Bureau, presided. -A clinical conference will be held by the Department of Mental Hygiene at the Syracuse State School, Syracuse, Friday, October 28, 1927. The program will consist of papers dealing with the preventive field of psychiatry, particularly as related to clinics for children, and with the medical work of the State schools and hospitals. -Dr. Vernon C. Branham, psychiatrist in the Division of Mental Defect and Epilepsy of the Department of Mental Hygiene, resigned September 1, 1927, to become medical director of the New York State Committee on Mental Hygiene of the State Charities Aid Association. For several years, through the organization and direction of clinics for retarded and defective children, Dr. Branham had rendered notable service to the Department and to the people of the State. -A 40-piece band, the members of which are nearly all patients of the Jacksonville (Ill.) State Hospital, furnished music for one day (September 8, 1927) at the Sparta (Ill.) Fair. The same band won first place in competition with several other bands at the State convention of the American Legion at Joliet this year. The leader of the band is Bernard H. Strongman, a well-known musician, who was formerly a member of the royal band of England. -The New York Chapter of the American Association of Psychiatric Social Workers has organized an advanced course in mental hygiene. Dr. Kenworthy is leading this course, which is being held at the New York School of Social Work. The group is made up of graduates from the Smith School of Social Work and the New York School of Social Work and includes staff members from the National Committee for Mental Hygiene and various local psychiatric clinics. -Construction is proceeding rapidly on the new $3,000,000 neuropsychiatric hospital being built by the United States Veterans' Bureau at Northport, L. I. This hospital will have a capacity of 1,000 patients when completed. Its construction involves the erection of 27 buildings on the 561acre reservation. About 800 men are being employed on the work which is about 50 per cent completed. -A special systematic class for post-graduate study in neurology and psychiatry will be held during the months of January and February, 1928, at the Neuropsychiatric Clinic of Professor Wagner von Jauregg and the Neurological Institute of Professor Marburg, Vienna University, Austria, under the auspices of the American Medical Association of Vienna. The instruction and the lectures in the course are to be in English. A minimum of eight students is required in order to have the course given. The maximum number admitted will be 15. -The annual meeting of the American Occupational Therapy Association was held in conjunction with the meeting of the American Hospital Association at Minneapolis, October 10-12, 1927. The principal themes for discussion were "Occupational Therapy for Children", "Occupational Therapy and Mental Disease", and "Occupational Therapy in Industrial Accident Cases." In addition, important reports of committees were submitted. --The Mental Hygiene Committee of the Onondaga Health Association has arranged a course of eight lectures on the "Mental Hygiene of Normal Childhood" to be given in the ballroom of the Onondaga Hotel on Thursday evenings from October 13, to December 8, 1927. The speakers and subjects will be as follows: "Your Mind and You", by George K. Pratt, M. D. "Heredity and Environment as a Basis for Mental Health", by Abraham Myerson, M. D. "Habit Training for Young Children", by Lawson G. Lowrey, M. D. "Relationships Between Parents and Children", by Esther L. Richards, M. D. "Special Abilities and Disabilities", by Augusta F. Bronner, Ph. D. "The Delinquent Child and the Delinquent Community", by Ira S. Wile, M. D. "Mental Hygiene in the School", by Marion E. Kenworthy, M. D. "Special Problems of High School Years", by Arthur H. Ruggles. M. D. 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