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THE REGISTRY MOVEMENT

Whether because of this appeal for more active cooperation on the part of the profession, or because of the general pickup in military activity following the near collapse of Allied defenses in Europe, the number of new cases received in the Dental and Oral Pathology Registry went up from 95, which it was in 1938, 13 to 226 in 1939, and to 692 in 1940 — a sevenfold increase in 2 years.

While the dental and oral section of the American Registry was overcoming the degree of indifference which it met at the outset, two other registries were being successfully launched. In 1935, the ear, nose, and throat cases in the original combined ophthalmic and laryngic registry were separated to become the Registry of Otolaryngic Pathology, under the sponsorship of the Academy which had started the registry system at the Museum. The addition of two more registries was reported in 1937— a Tumor Registry sponsored by the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, and one in Dermal Pathology sponsored by the American Dermatological Association and now under the sponsorship of the American Academy of Dermatology and Syphilology. With these additions to the list, it appeared to Surgeon General Charles R. Reynolds that "practically all the special fields are covered except neuropathology, and it is possible that this will be taken care of in the near future." 14

The Surgeon General underestimated the extent to which subdivision of specialties would be carried in the next two decades, as well as the range of additional fields in which pathology would be found basically useful. Neuro- pathology was indeed "taken care of" in the formation of a registry in 1942, jointly sponsored by the American Association of Neuropathologists and the American Psychiartic Association.

The registries in tumors, originally limited to the lymphatic tumors and those of the bladder, evolved into a total of six tumor registries through the addition of those on Kidney Tumors (1938), Prostatic Tumors (1943), and Testicular Tumors (1959), all sponsored by the American Urological Association; and that on Chest Tumors (1940), sponsored by the American Association for Thoracic Surgery.

In the field of pathology of particular organs, areas, and systems there are, in addition to the registries already mentioned, registries covering Orthopedic Pathology (1943), the Female Reproductive System (1952 )> and the Gastrro-