Notes and News

The appointment of Dr. Henry Brill as director of Craig Colony for Epileptics was announced by Dr. Newton Bigelow, Commissioner of Mental Hygiene. The appointment, which became effective June 1, fills a vacancy caused by retirement of the former director last September.

Assistant director of Pilgrim State Hospital at West Brentwood, L. I., since 1943, Dr. Brill entered the institution as a medical intern in 1932. He received his preliminary education in Bridgeport, Conn., where he was born in 1906, entered Yale University in 1924 and graduated in 1928 with the degree of B.A. A member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and holder of several scholarships, he entered medical college at Yale in 1928, receiving the degree of M.D. four years later.

Dr. Brill's career in state hospital service has been a steady progression through several grades to his present position, from which the new appointment marks a promotion. In addition to his work at Pilgrim State Hospital he has served Southside Hospital, Bay Shore, as consultant in neurology and psychiatry, and is a member of the Department of Mental Hygiene committee on professional care.

Dr. Brill is author and co-author of a number of scientific papers dealing with shock therapy and prefrontal lobotomy, a surgical procedure used in selected cases of mental illness. He is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and of the National Board in Medicine and Surgery, a member of the American Psychiatric Association, and past president of the Long Island Psychiatric Association.

Craig Colony for Epileptics is located at Sonyea, Livingston County, and serves 2,279 patients from all parts of the state.

The Department of Medicine and Surgery, Veterans Administration, is having produced a series of seven motion pictures on interviewing the psychiatric patient. These films are designed to stimulate critical discussion on the techniques of interviewing. The series is being produced under the technical direction of Dr. Floren