GENERAL NEWS
First International Congress on Diseases of the Chest.
—The First International Congress on Diseases of the Chest will be held at the Carlo Forlanini Institute, Rome, Italy, Sept. 17 to 20, 1950, under the auspices of the Council on International Affairs of the American College of Chest Physicians and the Carlo Forlanini Institute, with the patronage of the High Commissioner of Hygiene and Health, Italy, in collaboration with the National Institute of Health and the Italian Federation Against Tuberculosis. Further information may be secured from Dr. Chevalier L. Jackson, Chairman of the Council on International Affairs, American College of Chest Physicians, 500 North Dearborn Street, Chicago 10, Ill., U.S.A., or from Prof. A. Omodei Zorini, Carlo Forlanini Institute, Rome, Italy.