Dr. Harry Thompson briefly summarized the accomplishments for the Society during the past year, as follows:
"That the present membership is 166, of which approximately 60 are Board men, which is a very excellent representation of specialists for a town of this size and the membership of the society as a whole.
The Pima County Hospital is and will continue to be one of our prides and joys. Many of our recommendations have been in effect for some time and have brought the County Hospital up to a very high standard for the type of hospital it is. They are considering eventually building or adding to it, and I think that move can be accredited to the doctors in Tucson. We have an excellent hospital, and will have a better one. I think that during the last three years we have seen that hospital come up to better that average and better than standard efficiency.
The last year has seen the formation of the School Medicine Committee, a definite need for this community, and I think possibly within the next year their program will be settled. I think it demonstrates the unity and cooperation with which we have met this problem, and the Society has stood very firm in back of it. I am pleased to tell you I think it will work very nicely. It will be under the supervision of the doctors.
At long last our Central Residency and Internship Committee is finally functioning. We can visualize in the next year a coordination of the four hospitals with a joint training program which will be unified. We have the promise of sponsorship of the Southern California Medical Schools, a dream which we have long had. This will add to the excellent quality of medical care which we have in Tucson.
The last two years has seen the liaison of many members who prior to that time were not a part of the Society. We have had closer liaison between hospital administrative forces and in this Society we are trying to give you everything that goes on behind the scenes. That has been extended to the State activities, and you are now getting reports of the Council meetings.
We have seen the formation of the American Rheumatism Association, both State and local, the Diabetes Association, the Heart Association, and continuation of the Association of Chest Physicians and other Societies.
We should be proud of the State Meeting we had. Without a doubt it was the best and friendliest one that we have had since the Society has grown.
Our committees have been large this year. Approximately sixty members have participated in one of more committees, and I will say that all have functioned beautifully. From Trikkala [ Trikala ] on to Planned Parenthood, all have handled problems very well, and I think it is a democratic action. The Building Committee was appointed early in the year, and I think finally we have founded our starting fund. We now have enough money so that a fund can be started, and that will be placed where we can get 3% interest on it, and I do not think it is out of line to say that in about ten years we will have a good nest egg and can being.
This year has marked the temporary defeat of socialized medicine. I believe that with doctors being democratic and closely knit, there is a definite possibility that it can be defeated entirely."
Dr. R.E. Hastings spoke about the nursing situation locally. It seems that there are over seven hundred nurses in employment locally who are not members
