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This matter was brought to the attention of the patients at a meeting around the fireplace one evening during the winter, with the result that all were greatly interested. At the time. Foundation funds were not available and the patients, with their families and friends volunteered to assume the entire financial responsibility for the new Infirmary. Subscriptions ranging from small amounts to very large sums were turned in. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Wilson of Philadelphia were especially interested and made a very generous subscription. The Trustees have named the new infirmary "The Norman Wilson Memorial" in memory of their son.

It is a one story building of fireproof construction and southern colonial architecture, and is located at the northeastern corner of the campus. It is equipped with private rooms, public wards and offices for the medical staff. There is also an X-Ray room, a research laboratory and a plaster and brace room. As the year closes the infirmary is practically completed and will be opened early in 1930.

Patients and staff take a special pride in the new Infirmary because it has been constructed entirely by the generous interest of Warm Springs patients and their families in response to a long felt need for better health protection.

The Play House

A minor improvement, but one which has added greatly to the comfort and pleasure of the patients, is the renovation of the inside of the former dance hall, which has been christened the Play House.

A new ceiling was put in, the side walls lined and decorated, and with the new lighting system, window draperies, etc., it was made a very attractive place. Moving pictures are shown twice a week and those interested in craft work assemble there three evenings a week. The other evenings are used for general recreation.

This improvement was also made possible by a generous gift from a patient, who was here during the summer.

Because weather conditions are of great importance to people taking treatment for their health, I submit herewith a copy of my records for 1929. It indicates that climatic conditions are generally very favorable at Warm Springs..

Respectfully submitted,
LeRoy W. Hubbard
Surgeon-in-Chief

January 14, 1930.

METEROLOGICAL RECORD
1929

1929 was a year of a very unusual amount of rain, the record rain-fall at the United States Government Station in Atlanta being over 65 inches, or more than 20 inches above the normal, and exceeding all previous records.

The record for rain shows the number of days during which there was any precipitation and there were only 92 days that were cloudy all day.

TRUSTEES

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
D. Basil O'Connor, Treasurer
Dr. Leroy W. Hubbard, Warm Springs, Ga.
George Foster Peabody, Saratoga, N. Y.
Frank C. Root, Greenwich, Conn.
Herbert N. Straus, New York City
James T. Whitehead, Detroit, Mich.
Lehighton McCarthy, Toronto, Canada

Board of Consultants

Dr. Leroy C. Abbott
St. Louis, Mo.

Dr. Fred. Warren Bailey
St. Louis, Mo.

Dr. George E. Bennett
Baltimore, Md.

Dr. Frank D. Dickson
Kansas City, Mo.

Dr. George Draper
New York City

Dr. Albert H. Freiberg
Cincinnati, Ohio

Dr. Ludvig Hektoen
Chicago, Ill.

Dr. Frederick C. Kidner
Detroit, Mich.

Dr. Arthur T. Legg
Boston, Mass.

Dr. Beveridge H. Moore
Chicago, Ill.

Dr. Frank H. Ober
Boston, Mass.

Dr. Robert B. Osgood
Boston, Mass.

Dr. John Lincoln Porter
Evanston, Ill.