Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-11-15
MALARIA's CAUSE AND CURE
Impure Water PrOpasates the Disease,
and Publication the only Remedy

Impure Water PrOpasates the Disease,
and Publication the only Remedy.
DETROIT, Nov. l4.-At the afternoon
session Of the National Health Associa-
tion Yesterday, Surgeon George NJ. Stern
burg, Of the United States rrmy, read a
paper on ''Eliology Of Malaria" He pre-
sented statistical tables tending to prove
that the cause of malaria is formed in
impure water infected with decomposing
vegetable matter, the disease being aggra-
waited by heat. The facts showed that it
was much more prevalent in the South
ern than in the Northern States.
A paper by Surgeon Alfred a. Wood
hull, of the United States army,
on The Biological Association of
Organic Matter with Malaria" was read
10y DR.. Ames, Secretary. He took a sImi-
lar view with DR.. Sternberg as to the
cause of malaria. Surgeon Charles Smart,
of the United States army, followed with
a paper on the prevention of Malarial
Diseases" The only practical remedies
suggested were to cease drinking impure
water and the adoption of means for puri-
flying streams, wells and cisterns used for
supplies. In the evening Governor BegOle
delivered an address of welcome for the
State, DR.. William Brodie for Detroit,
and DR.. John Avery, President of the
State Board, for that body.
At the forenoon session of the associa-
tion to-day paper was read-prepared
by DR.. Il. ID. Webb, of Livingston, Ala
on The Changes III TyphO-Malarial Fever
in Sumter County, Alabama, from 1888 to
1881 The Secretary then read short pa
pers on malarial diseases by DR.. j. w.
Penn, of Humboldt, Tenn, and DR.. Thos.
Of - ~
discussion followed on the subject of ma
larial fever. Imperfect drainage and hot
weather were considered two of the
most fruitful sources of the disease.
The afternoon session was occupied
with the subject of ''Nital Statistics p
the report of the committee being read
by Chairman Harris, of the New York
State Board of Health. Medical Director
Albert GihOn. of the United States navy,
followed with a paper on "Vital Statistics
as Sanitary Monitors" He claimed that
the mere record of births, deaths and
marriages is not sufficient for sanitary
purposes. but that exact exhibits
of the actual amount of prevailing pre-
ventable diseases in the community, espe-
cially those of the zymotic classes, such
as are now embraced in the reports of the
| Bureau Of Medicine and Surgery of the
| Navy Department, are what are really
needed. He called attention to the fact
that Japan has already taken the initia-
tive in collecting such data. Papers by
Prot. A. Il. Leeds, of Stevens Institute,
of HOboken, on Food AdulteratiOn; by
DR.. w. b. ;. Hargis, of Pensacola, Fla,
on ''The Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1892"
and by Prof. G. j. Lundy, of Detroit, on
"SchOOl Hygiene" closed the afternoons
session.
At the evening session papers were read
on physical Training" by Prof Madison
Watson, OF Elizabeth, n. j.; on ''Physi-
cal Culture" by Prof. d. A. Sargent, of
Cambridge, Mass, and on the Eminent
Domain OF Sanitary Science and the Use-
fulness of State Boards of Health in
Guarding the Public Welfare,' by DR..
James f. Reeves of Wheeling w Va