Notes and News

The Second Mental Hospital Institute, sponsored by the American Psychiatric Association, will be held at St. Louis University Auditorium, St. Louis, Missouri, October 16-19, 1950. Representatives from all types of public and private mental hospitals, schools for mental deficiency, general hospitals with psychiatric departments, state and provincial administrative offices, hospital boards of trustees, and organizations concerned with the hospitalized mentally ill in the United States and Canada are eligible to attend.

Equivalent to a post-graduate seminar, the four-day workshop will cover administration and business management, community and public relations, clinical practices and problems, and in-service education and training. Faculty co-chairmen are Drs. J. Freemont Bateman, Addison M. Duval, Frank F. Tallman, Karl M. Bowman, George E. Reed, Newton J. T. Bigelow, and Harvey J. Tompkins.

The attendance fee is $50.00. Advance registration should be made with Director, A.P.A. Mental Hospital Service, 1624 Eye Street N.W, Washington 6, D. C.

A new traveling child guidance clinic for upstate New York areas was placed in operation by the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene on September 1, according to an announcement by Dr. Newton Bigelow, Commissioner. The clinic team is under the supervision of Dr. Anne Hart, formerly associated with Kings County Hospital. Dante Santora, also previously associated with the same institution, is the psychologist. Two psychiatric social workers were added to the staff.

Clinic headquarters are located at Champlain College, Plattsburg, and serve Plattsburg, Malone, Canton, Ogdensburg, Lake Placid, Tupper Lake, Elizabeth town, and other nearby communities. The new center brings to eleven the total of traveling child guidance clinic teams operated by the Department of Mental Hygiene. During the past year these clinics served 155 communities through