Eugenics then and now / edited by Carl Jay Bajema.

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[1976], ©1976
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    10 LEE R. DICE the first members of the staff. James V. Neel has been the physician-in-charge of the Clinic since May, 1946. At the present time the Clinic is supported through the budget of the Institute of Human Biology and through research grants from outside sources. The Dight Institute of the University of Minnesota was organized in 1941, under the directorship of Clarence P. Oliver. Doctor Oliver resigned in 1946 and was replaced by Sheldon C. Reed, the present director. The Dight Insti¬ tute maintains a clinic which provides counsel on human heredity to individuals and to physicians, hospitals, and agencies of both a public and private nature. A physician, Ray Anderson, who also has a doctorate in genetics, is a member of the staff. The Institute is supported by its endowment and by research grants. At Winston-Salem, North Carolina, the Out-patient Department of the North Carolina Baptist Hospital, which is the teaching hospital of the Bow¬ man Gray School of Medicine, offers genetic advice as part of its consulting service. C. Nash Herndon is the director of the Out-patient Department. Genetic advice also is available to patients in other parts of the hospital and to private patients. This service is in considerable part an outgrowth of the inter¬ est of the late Dr. William Allan in the study of human heredity in North Caro¬ lina. At the University of Utah the Laboratory of Human Genetics, in which F. E. Stephens serves as Geneticist, offers consulting service in close coopera¬ tion with the Medical School. A considerable number of pedigrees of families from the state of Utah are already on file. A research grant aids in supporting the project. Clarence P. Oliver of the University of Texas offers individual counseling service on human heredity, but due to crowded quarters he has not been able to handle many families. Quarters in a new building will be available in the near future and Dr. Oliver plans at that time to expand considerably his coun¬ seling service. The University of Oklahoma has no clinic which is regularly open to provide advice on human heredity, but Laurence H. Snyder and Paul R. David give advice from time to time to families which are referred to them. The College of Medicine cooperates in making the necessary medical examinations. The Department of Genetics of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto operates an heredity clinic under the direction of Norma Ford Walker. There is close cooperation with the Department of Zoology of the University of To¬ ronto. The Department of Genetics is supported by a research grant. The neces¬ sary medical examinations are made by the Hospital staff. Requests for ad¬ vice come from all over Canada. A Department of Medical Genetics has recently been organized in the Chil- 345