The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1878-11-21

treaty pI Berlin, the appointment OF
( aaHtaeT governor OF BIlgara Is proba-
BIKE.
+ The Encas.Jst newspapers publish
/ tic p4.;icu ais "a the Russian demands,
! which, II correct, will materially de-
,rtet from their significance. They
I seem only 10 have asked increased IA
/ cl.i;Ics for Accommodation dur
ing their term Of occupation of Bull
g4tia. Nevertheless, accordiug to the
Roamanian liberal newspaper, the Bu-
/ ch4rest government has already de-
/ Cl.ncd the Russian proposals declaI-
( ing and explaining that the facilities
are all that Russia needs according to
the treaty OF Berlia and the Russo
Roumanian convention.
! LONDON. November l9.-Prince Don.
dcnkoT keisakof, the Govern OF
Bulgaria, has arrived at Odessa, On his
way TO Lividia to report upon the state
of affairs in Turkey.
RICHMOND, November 10. At the
opening session of the annual Public
Health Association, fully one hun
| dred members were present, besides
many members of the medical fra
ternIty from abroad, and local
physicians and citizens. The pro-
ceedings opened with prayer by
Rev. Dr.. Petterkin. DR.. Harris intro
duced Governor Holiday as presiding
officer of the evening. The Governor
extended in behalf of the city cordi-
al welcome, and said there never had
been the time when the health OF the
body aud mind were not needed to
wrestle successfully with the aims and
objects of life. lie also alluded TO
the convention as an audience of spe-
cal culture, and spoke of the associa =
ton as one of vital Importance to the
public health. 1t is, ne said, of per-
petual application, and goes through
out every department of life, and pen
etrGtes every pursuit of the public
health, and has a vast deal to dc
with the public morals, and immoral
ity is most fatal blow struck at pub
lie health. lie said one of the great
and most heneficent objects of this
association is to investigate the cause,
and if possible find remedies. This
alone would Justify such a conven-
ton at present. To produce remedies
for a dreadful plague that but
yesterday swept the fairest portion of
our land is a noble work worthy of
such men. In conclusion the Govern
or said: ''But gentlemen, beyond the
immediate objects of society, other ends
will be attained by your gathering.
Coming from every section of our COM
mon country, bringing yonr learning
and culture, your experience and earn
estness, you will imbibe that gentle
ness and affection which are the very
germs of unity; and when you go to
your homes you will carry with you
that feeling of fellowship that is
stronger than political and sectional
bonds. Here ia this beautiful city
where the suffering of warfare was en-
dured that will be never known until
the great future, when all hearts will
be revealed, here where prayers were
offered that need not be blotted, even
by the tears of the recording angel,
here you have come together from
north, south, east and west, as one
brotherhood to show by your
words and deeds how peace hath its
victories no less renowned than war,
ard how we can, by the divine in
stincts of our nature, make our republic
one, and what she ought to be, the
mother of mighty race"
Prof. Cable, of the University of
Virginia, followed the Governor, in
PRODUCING the president of the associa-
tiou, DR.. Elisha Harris, of New York,
whose annual address had been an
nounced as the leading feature of the
evening exercises. He paid an eloquent
tribute to Harris as lifelong and self
devotee to sanitary studies and en-
dorsed the testimony of most COM
petent judge, who had described Har-
ris as leading sanitary authority in
lessons they deduce.
DR.. ii trris, after a brief introduc-
ton, in which he recognized the lauda-
BILE object contemplated by this move
ment, suggested the following modifi-
cations as practicable: /. That each
State board of health should be en-
titled to one seat in the executive com
mittee of the association; that mem
bers being elected by this ASSOCIATION
hold Office for one year. 9. That
members of the State boards of health
be er-?1iciO members of the association.
3. That members of the executive COM
mittee, annually elected by the asso
citation, should be equal to the total
number of members er-06ieiO; this
committee to be henceforth designated
as Council of the American Public
Health ASSOCIATION" 4. That for the
purpose of shaping expert investigation
and scientific investigation of the same
and for further encouraging continual
researches, should be appointed COM
mittees of all sections differing from
the plan designed 10 the original con-
struction of the standing committee.
5. The 9msintenance in each State and
territory of a system of periodical re-
ports, weekly, monthly and yearly, of
all epidemic and other prevalent dis
eases, supervised by the State board of
health, and where there is no snch
board, by resident members of the as
ISOLATION, designated for the purpose,
all studies and reports to be a method
of yielding, conquerable r-
suit. 6. .!Studies of meteorological
and atmospheric conditions with
reference to epidemology and
health. z. The maintenance of COM
miittee for the study of and coDsult0-
ton in regard to the biological and
anthropologIcal investigations, includ-
ing contributions from census and
other national aud State systems
of registering. s. Introduction of a
clause in the constitution of this asso-
citation to provide for editorial and
supervisory duty in the publication
and diffusion of sanitary information. 8. |
A formal recognition of both national
and international obligations in the
work of this association by means of |
correspondence with State, national |
and International sanitary authorities,
and especially to conduce to the |
that are already in |
progress in Europe in regard |
to pestilential diseases and con-
tsglOn. After a brief recitation of |
the nature aud extent of the epidemic,
DR.. Harris disclaimed any intention of |
theory or expecting to work |
miracles, expressing the belief, how
ever, that scientific investigation can |
assert mastery over the scOurge, an
opinion which the recent body Of evil
dence, now gathered, confirmed him in. |
The gentlemen present had come to |
investigate and judge on the evidence
presented, without regard to previous
theory, whatever their nature. He |
predicted a free and frank ex-
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