The New York herald., 1873-11-12
AMERICAN PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION.

/ League Club Yesterday-The Papers
| Read by Prominent Representatives OF
| Sanitary Commissions.
The American Pubic Health Association met
| yesterday noon at the Union League CLUB Hail
The association is composed Of representatives OF
| sanitary commissions from various parts OF the
| Union and others interested IN the SUBJECT OF
hygiene. There was no quorum only nineteen
delegates being present
Mr. stephen Smith, M. D., the President de-
uvered the opening address OF welcome, and read
an interesting paper showing the beneficial effects
OF the study OF hygiene.
pr Ranch, OF Chicago, the Treasurer, read his
report, which showedthat there was a balance OF
| $3.50 in the treasury =
Mr James W. Beekman contrasted, in an able
paper, the hospitals OF Europe with those OF this
country.
| DR.. Billings. Assistant Surgeon Of the United
States Army, read q paper on libraries and their
influence on public health
The association then took recess till haltpast
| two.
At halfpast two O'Clock the ASSOCIATION resumed
its session. There was somewhat larger audi
! ence
DIR. NATHAN ALLEN, OF LOWELL, MASS,
gave his views on the perfection OF Structure and
Function in the Human Body as Leading Element
| OF Hygiene.r One OF the great requisites OF long
life was to come from healthy. long-lived stock.
| The temperaments must be well blended, and there
| must be harmony and balance between all
| the organs. moderate climate decidedly
/ favorable TO longevity, and so were cheerful
disposition and a well trained mind. The
! greatest longevity was found among the most
! civilized nations. Harmonious action OF the body
and mnd-this was the first principle OF longevity.
| DR.. Allen alluded to the treatise Of an eminent
author, who claimed that 100 years was the proper
age which every man ought to attain. and if dead
before this age 1t was owing to his excesses, his
follies and similar causes.
Dr. Edward Jarvis, OF Dorchester Mass, sub
mitted long report upon the "Power OF the
Housekeeper over and Responsibility for the
Health OF the Family.n The law OF the stomach
was the law of the man AS was his nourishment
so was his power, and not only the power OIL his
generally sound and did its work without any
dlticulty but the iood was Ill prepared 1t could
/ not easily be digested. II people
/ WERE TROUBLED WITH HEADACHES,
and felt disincIned to attend to business; II they
were nervous ana their energies seemed to be
which they had laid upon their digestive organs
they or their nousekeepers who prepared the food
for them. mans dinners made him DuoyanI or
| depressed, and the science OF o Kitchen was In
great measure the science OF life. 1t had such
power ior checking mems energies that it was
certainly worth studying with the greatest atten-
tion IL would be great blessing II some sound
dishes SH we're out u about Hs Thoroughly ' H aeainn
| cookery. To their housekeeper they owed
Woman was not COOK ,n bv nature sny more tham
man shoemaker or lawyer by nature, and to
be good COOK it was necessary TO study the art
OF cooking. Alter the reading OF this paper many
| OF the spectators left the hall.
DR.. James E. Reeves. OF Wheeling, West Va,
Causes % Of Bad Health in American Wv women"
Sometimes both parents were represented in the
newborn child. Lord Byron had some OF the best
and some Of the worst
/ CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS ANCESTORS.
They who had figured most prominently in the
theatre OF the world owed their vgor OF intellect
and oody to their parents to a considerable de-
gree. There was no instance IN history OF great
genius born of an imbeclle mother. IL was not
necessary to Kill ali puny and sickly children, but
it would be well TO prevent the marriage OF puny
and sickly people. Physicians could bear testl-
mony to the frequency OF the hereditariness OF
consumption, epilepsy, gout, idiocy, long or short
children become often enfeebled by the indulgence
and foolshness OF their parents and it was no won
they were two years OF age In great many in
stances death was caused by nursery mismanage-
| every year by short sleevesy Girls should have
| much outdoor exercise as boys In many OF the
pubic schools they could see the effects OF forcing
the minds OF children at the expense Of all physi-
cal exercise. Parents should be unceasing IN their
vigilance over their children In this county the
| habit OF examining the minds Of the children had
become too universal. What a contrast with an
tiquity-what contrast even
| WITH A HUNDRED YEARS AGOi
IL was generally misfortune to girl to be sent TO
| what was called a fashionable boarding school. 1t
\
when she was budding into womanhood from the
| wholesome restraints and influences OF home and
to send her to school where she, perhaps might
be made to room with the very worst girl in the
establishment This system OF fashionable educa-
tion was complete sham. What was required
was an education that would ft her for the exalted
position OF mother, would make her dignifed
and gentle and arectonate and teach her
| to admire a graceful, healthy outline OF form
and the natural OF health instead OF the
rouge used by demireps- AS IL was now, the edu-
cation of girls was generally an introduction to all
| lODUerfps
all the French fashions, but could not bake q loaf
OF bread; and, although she could draw and paint,
she was unable to make her husband a shirt He
did not advocate what some women were pleased
TO call the 'sdrudgery OF wives" but claimed that
women ought to be useful
! AS WELL AS ORNAMENTAL
Surely, 1t was high time that reform should take
houses the imperfect ventilation and other similar
evils were greatly attributable TO the ignorance OF
wona Sraya pe sno aa coS IN snc sha
as women wear in the winterf But the women
said they conld not bear those thick coarse Shoes
but that they must have thin leather shoes. De-
fornty OF the feet, however, was trivial as COM
pared with the effects OF the excessive of cor
| sets. lnant1cide was practised among American
women In and out OF church and in town and
country. Who could wonder that bad health was
so common among American women
After the reading Of this paper the Association
| adjourned till halfpast seven O'Clock, when the
w WITH tne e AID 81 In
Various members presented local reports
upon cholera, as II has prevailed in
| Some OF the figures win be interesting. There were
232 deaths from cholera in New Orleans; 16 IN Con-
| corda parish, IL In Delta, Madison parish; 80 In
| LafonviIle parish, 60 In Monroe, % in Jackson,
Miss. IL in vicksburg, 120 In Birmingham. Ala. :
55 in Huntsville, is IN Little Rock Ark; IL near
Little Rock.
1897 IN TENNESSEE,
633 in Kentucky. N2 in Illinois, 1914 In Indiana, 253
in Ohio, in West Virginia. IN Pennsylvania, 2s9
In Missouri, 1IS in Iowa and in Dakota Territory.
DIR. White, President OF the Louisiana Board OF
Health, gave lengthy account OF twenty-five diff
cholera
leans, and explained them from a scfen-
| tifc point OF view. He also read state
ments OF the examining physicians in New
| Orleans. There was a general coincidence OF the
lack Of rain with cholera. DR.. Eli Mcclellan, OF the
| United States Army Dr. VIM. Clendennin, DR.. j.
II. Ranch. Dr. +. Norris, DR.. A. b. Judson, DR. John
| 9. Peters and DR.. J. n Van Deman and others pre-
sented also their views In regard to the causes OF
cholera and the Association then adjourned till to-
day, when reports upon yellow fever sewerage and