The Evening critic., 1884-12-09

The national conference OF State and city
boards OF health OF this country and Canada
Will convene at the Ebbitt House tomorrow
for tho consideration OF oil muiters pertaining
TO the sanitary condition OF the country and
tho precautions necessary to prevent the In.
PRODUCTION at any North American port OF con-
tagious and epidemic diseases, as we'll as the
means by which they can,be successfully com
batted in the event OF their development.
The convention Will DO attended by large
standing and scientific attainment, and whose
recommendations Will command attention and
consideration. The boards OF health OF every
State VIII be represented, as VIII also those OF
many OF the Canadian provinces.
number Of delegates are already in tho
city registered at the hotels or as guests OF
resident physicians, and others Will arrive to-
night and tomorrow.
Health oflicer Townshend has charge OF the
arrangements, and the visitors will be hos
Since tho adjournment OF the health. confer.
ence OF st. Louis In October, much attention
has been given to the subject OF tho recon-
mendations OF to-morrows convention on the
subject OF. precautions to be taken TO prevent
the introduution OF Asiatic cholera.
one of the frat acts OF the conference will BIO
and re6abilitate the National Board OF Health,
or TO provide an efficient substitute-one
clothed with increased power and supplied
with ample funds to maintain an an e9ectlye
exterior; TO maintain an interior sanitary In.
spectlon service for the ggreat highways OF
travel by land and water; and to give ludlcious
States and municipalities in preventing the
Introduction OF epidemic diseases Into one
State from another, and In preventing their
spread within the States themselves.
Congress should give the President tho
power TO issue a proclamation. upon the
recommendation OF the National health au-
thority, forbidding immigration Into the
United States from infected districts OF other
countries, and It should provide some method
OF international sanitary cooperation between
this country and the Dominion OF Canada,
whose interests are substantially the same as
ours In these matters, and whose contiguity
makes cooperation OF vital Importance.
Many topics OF interest Will be presented for
discussion, and the precautionary measures,
the sewerage, garbage, plumbing and other
sanitary regulations Of the various cities Will
DO discussed by the mon who have been fore
most In devieing and enforcing them.
The conference Will probably continue sew
eral days.
holding Of q health conference by the State
boards of health among many of1ioials here,
who Contend that the Marine Hospital Service
is the channel through which all means to
prevent the Introduction OF cholera or any
other contagious disease should emanate. A
woll-known Treasury Department Official, who
Sy 70 eparer ana
the Health Conference
" DON'T see now on eartu tney can 40 any.
thing OF an efrective character. Surely they
do not know anything more now about the
propagation OF tho cholera than they did at.
ter their long session in st. Louis two months
ago. No good and no harm can result from
their meeting, though.
"But," continued the gentleman, ~ can SEQ
into this whole thing. Tho meeting is ostensi-
bly, held TO discuss cholera matters, but their
real object Is to try to impress upon Congress
the Importance OF reorganizing the defunct
National Board OF Health. The conference to.
10 ~ lar. AFxr uA m anA
only persons who are known to be committed
to the resurrection OF the National Board OF
ton, Supervising Surgeon. General OF the Ma
rine Hospital Service, has boon invited to the
Health ofllcer Townshend stated to CRITIC
reporter to-day that the arrangements for
the conference are progressing satisfactorily.
He stated that tho Ebbitt House had tendered
the doctors in everything they could. They
had succeeded In getting reduced rates OF fare
for those attending from the Bouth, and the
Southern roads, and particularly the ohesa.
reduced the far one-half and In some places
the transportation was free.
member OF the committee on arrange
ments stated this afternoon that they had boon
unsuccessful in getting even the slightest re-
duction on the Baltimore Ohio and the
Pennsylvania Central roads.
Or. Townehend says tho conference VIII be
one OF the moet important that was ever held
In the country. There Will be present the
health officers from all over the country and
Canada, and the subject to be considered viii
be to prevent tho Asiatic cholera from being
| introduced into this country. There will be
about $50 In attendance.
DR.. Townshend has boon busy for several
| days making the necessary arrangements for
| the meeting, and q delegation Of the doctors
| Is expected tonight,
The doctors feel that they have been badly
l treated by some OF the railroad companies,
| who refused TO lower the fare, as the doctors
| are paying their own expenses and are really
| public benefactors themselves.
| The conference will be called 10 order al IL
| O'Clock tomorrow morning by the president
| Hon. Erastus Brooks, OF New York. There
Will BIO delegates present from every State II
the Union and nearly all the prominent cities