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Arthur H. Ruggles, president of THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION, has made (September 11, 1942) a report of the progress of a Special Committee on Psychiatry in the Armed Forces, appointed at the Boston meeting in May 1942. this Committee is composed of Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles, Chairman, Dr. Frederick
W. Parsons and Dr. Edward A. Strecker. The Surgeon General of the Army has long been interested in developing an efficient neuropsychiatric organization, and to that end has appointed Dr. Roy D. Halloran, Superintendent of the Metropolitan State Hospital, Waltham, Massachusetts, as Colonel in charge of Neuropsychiatry in the Office of The Surgeon General of the Army. Colonel Halloran has reported for the duty of organizing Army psychiatry.
Several commissioned members of the Association are on psychiatric duty in the Pacific area, several in Great Britain, and it is expected that psychiatric organization will soon be well advanced in our expeditionary forces.
It is proposed to appoint a chief psychiatrist to each Corps Area, now called Service Commands, of which there are nine in this country. Other important developments in psychiatric organization will soon be effected.
The Committee is aware that there are some well qualified psychiatrists in the service not yet being used for psychiatric duty, but it has been assured that as rapidly as possible, psychiatric personnel will be utilized as fully as possible for the type of work for which they are best qualified.
The Executive Committee of the American Psychiatric Association have decided to attempt the publication of the annual directory, even though it will be hard to determine the whereabouts of many members in the service. Members of the Association are asked to send to Mr. Austin M. Davies, Room 708, 9 Rockefeller Plaza, any change of address listed in the previous directory.