according to Dr. Manton M. Carrick, State Health Officer.

Figures for Texas show that there were 3,977 deaths from diseases in infancy during 1920 as compared with 3,192 deaths in 1919.

115,000 Children in One City Tubercular

Deaths of children under one year old in Vienna, the capital of Austria have increased 40 per cent in the last six months, according to a statistical survey of conditions there made by relief officers of the American Red Cross. Between January 1 and June 1 of last year there was an excess of 6,448 deaths over births, not including the death of 2,474 children in their first year, making the actual decrease in population nearly 9,000. Nearly 25 per cent of all deaths are due to tuberculosis, the report states.

Tuberculosis has claimed 115,000 victims among the children of this city alone, the survey shows, with 16,000 of these in urgent need of medical attention. Of 54,000 children recently examined, but one in twelve was found to be in a normally healthy condition. Seventy per cent of the children under 6 years old are subnormal, according to Dr. Joseph Poener, one of the chief medical authorities in Austria. Deficiencies predominate among the girls, the future mothers of the nation, he asserts. Sixty-eight welfare stations in the city, where mothers bring their children for examination, have records showing that children from 2 to 15 years old average 15 to 20 pounds underweight.

Rickets, a disease defined as softening of the bones, due to the lack of food in sufficient quantities and of proper quality, are found in symptoms that have developed in 90 per cent of the school children. There are 30,000 active cases of the disease now known to the authorities.

State Expends $10,000 on Single Family

The 13 children of one family in Utica, N. Y., are confined to institutions because of venereal infections, says a report from that city. "It is estimated that in this family alone the state has

been put to an expense of more than $10,000 to date in caring for these helpless, unfortunate victims," the report continues.

Field workers of the United States Public Health Service and the state department of health are now cooperating in tracing the histories of the parents of children showing either positive or suspicious signs of venereal infection. It is hoped by this method to combat this danger at its source, thereby bettering the health of the public and saving taxpayers the expense of caring for such children in public institutions.

French Physicians Baffled by Epidemic of Hiccoughs in Paris.

The curious epidemic of hiccoughs is still raging throughout France. Persons have been known to have the hiccoughs for five days and nights consecutively.

Doctors are divided as to the causes of this strange illness. Some say it is a mild form of sleeping sickness, others attribute it to a complication of flu, of which there has been a recurrence of late. So far hiccoughs presents no danger, though medical authorities say it might easily develop into something more dangerous unless it is carefully treated and attempts made to stop it. Anemia might be one of the causes of hiccoughs.

Prof. August Krogh

Prof. August Krogh of Copenhagen has been awarded the Nobel peace prize. in medical science for 1920. Five prizes are awarded annually for achievements in literature, medicine, physics, chemistry and peace on the anniversary of the birth of the donor, Alfred Nobel, Swedish inventor of nitroglycerin.

Old American Shoes Remade for Orphans.

Cast off shoes that once served their owners in hundreds of towns and cities in America have taken a new lease on life and are now doing duty in far away

Pland to protect the feet of youthful war orphans. The American Red Cross has set up second-hand shoe shops and is altering thousands of American shoes to fit the children. In the cobbler shops the shoes are completely torn down and portions of the leather that can be utilized are made into new shoes for orphans up to 15 years of age. Scarcely any leather is wasted in the process.

Medical Internationalism.

A representative of the American College of Surgeons sailed recently from New York for Ecuador, where he will present the aims of the college and strive to interest Ecuadorian medical men in becoming fellows of the American institution. Argentina, Peru, Chile and Uruguay already enjoy such affiliation.

The preservation of health and the advancement of medicine and surgery are recognized better than they used to be as great national and international duties. The fashion of interchanging visits between recognized members of the professions in the various countries. is one of the most potent factors in such advancement. It means that doctors the world around labor shoulder to shoulder, that knowledge gained in one country becomes the possession of the others, that the danger from obscure epidemics grows less year by year, and that what is accomplished in one country will not be undone by ignorance or lack of interest in another.

The statesmen, the business men, the armies and the navies receive endless praise for their labors among the nations. Too little is said of the doctors who, selfless, highly intelligent, well organized and following an ideal perhaps higher than any of the others, labor ceaselessly for the benefit of all mankind. Four States Press.

Negro Sanitarium Bill Vetoed by Governor.

On Feb. 22 Gov. Neff vetoed the Senate bill appropriating $300,00 for establishing a State Tuberculosis Sanitarium. for negroes. The Governor included among his reasons for disapproving the measure the fact the bill proposed to buy land for the sanitarium instead of obtaining such land near the present State sanitarium at Carlsbad, where, the Governor pointed out, the plant could be operated by the machinery of that institution. The Governor said that the present unsettled financial condition of the country and the appropriations that must be made for the upkeep of the State institutions already established were other reasons.

Doctors of Dallas, Texas, Plan Million Dollar Building.

A $1,000,000 office building in Dallas, to be leased to and occupied by physicians, surgeons, osteopaths and dentists, will be constructed this year.

The proposed structure, completely equipped in every detail, will be one of the first of its kind ever built in the United States and will follow out the plans of the Dallas County Medical Society to concentrate all members of the medical profession.

Options on centrally located property have already been secured, and about $100,000 has been subscribed toward the construction of the building.

Too Weak to Stand It. "Doctor," said the convalescent, smiling weakly, "you may send in your bill any day now."

"Tut, tut!" replied the M. D., silencing his patient with a wave of his hand. "You are not strong enough yet."