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178  THE COLORED AMERICAN MAGAZINE.

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Hayes, assistant secretary;  Dr. A.J. Aubery, corresponding secretary;  Dr. L.T. Burbridge, treasurer.

The 1908 meeting, by invitation of the New Orleans profession, was again held in the Crescent City, to which metropolis the Association was welcomed by the Assistant City Attorney, representing the Mayor.

The success of this meeting may be gleaned from the fact that every daily paper in the city of New Orleans interested itself in reporting the daily sessions.  At this meeting the Association pledged itself to a vigorous campaign against tuberculosis, and the members bound themselves to address the people of their respective localities, from time to time, on methods of prevention in dealing with the dread infection.  The Association now has a membership of forty, and its forthcoming session, to be held in the city of Alexandria, in the month of May, bids fair to surpass all previous ones in social and scientific interest.

The Louisiana Association stands for the hygienic uplift of the Negro and the betterment of the professional status of the professions concerned.  Though still in its infancy, its influence is already felt

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throughout the State.  Younger than similar organizations in the far South, it nevertheless leads in the calibre and in the brilliancy of its men.  It numbers among its members the distinguished surgeon, Dr. J.T. Newman;  the brilliant internist, Dr. L.T. Burbridge;  the accomplished obstetrician, Dr. George H. Nelson, and a number of others no less cultured and scholarly men.

The young physicians of the State have caught the spirit of the promoters of the organization, and as each successive annual meeting approaches, interest in the welfare of the organization increases.  The spirit which makes for the success of such a body exists in an eminent degree among the medicoes of Louisiana, and a few more years will give to this State an organization of professional men which will compare most favorably with our Eastern and Northern bodies.

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