New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-21
TO CONSIDER PUBLIC HEALTH.
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION.
SOME INTERESTING SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED

SOME INTERESTING SUBJECTS TO BE DISCUSSED
AN EXHIBITION WORTH VISITING.
The seventeenth annual meeting of the American
Public Health Association win be held this week al
the Brooklyn Institute, the opening session beginning
tomorrow and other sessions following on Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday. Delegates from nearly
every state of the Union expected 10 attend, and
there will be delegation from Canada The officers
of the association include President HOsmer a. JOhh
son. of Chicago; Presidents Jerome Cochran Of
Montgomery, Ala, and Frederick Montizembert OF
Quebec Canada; Secretary Irving A. Watson, OF Ion
cord, n H.. and Treasurer J. Derrien Lindsey, Of
Nashville Tenn DR.. stephen Smith, of this city, Is
an ex-president Of the association ard member OF
the Executive Committee, Heath Commissioner GrlIDu
and ex- Commissioner RAY mond of Brooklyn DR.. LOWS
Balch of the New-York state Board OF Health, ana
Assistant sanitary superintendent James, Of ths Guy
are members Of important committees The EAecu
t,vo Committee have selected the following topics for
consideration at the meeting:
/ The Causes and Prevention OF Infant Mortality
. Railway Sanitation (a) Heating and ventilation
OF railway passenger coaches. 90 Waef'suppy, "aO'i
closets etc. (c) Carrying passengers iiIeO'9u WIN ~
municabe diseases.
g. steamship sanitation.
A. Methods of Scientific Cooking
s. yellow Fever. ca The unprotected avenues
through which yellow IS liable TO be brought INTO
the United states o. sanitary requirements neces
say 10 render town city proof against epidemic OF
Yellow fever c) The course to by local health
authorities upon outbreak Of yellow fever
8. The Prevention and Restriction OF tuberculosis in
Man.
T. Methods OF Prevention Of Diphtheris with results
Of such methods
g. How far should Health Authorities be ypsrmited to
aprly known Preventive Measures Tor the Control of
DphtheIial
8. Compulsory Vaccination.
10. sanitation Of Asyums Prisons. Jals snd ctheF
EleemosynOry Institutions.
While the meeting Of the association IS in progress
at the Brooklyn Institute there will be free health
exhibition in hall a. Fulton and Pineapple sts one
block distant flom the institute. Many articles Of
interest both to anitayians and TO the general public
viii be on exhibition, arranged in forty groups
They will include models aud designs for sanitary
dwellings, heating appliances, safety traps and other
new plumbing devices, large exhibit of gymnasuc
apparatus for IN schools improved garments for
women articles Of prepared food for infants and
jnvalids gas stoves for cooking, crematOres for
garbage plans for house drainage, dsinfectng ma
tcrals and instruments for in health laboratories
Women who look at the exhibition win be interested
in the largo exhibits of clothing designed TO illustrate
the dress reform theories both in favcr Of corcts and
against the use OF cOrsets. They will see cooking
by gas on large scale and the preparation OF
beverages of al kinds. ,...
The committee having charge Of the exhibition
have been allie 10 soll spaces In the hall 10 cN
hbltors at such favorable rates 10 pay the rent
aud Incidental expenses, and the public VIII be
admitted FREQ of charge, but the police VIII keep
parents and all dsOriery persons The object of the
exhibition educate the public in sanitary matters
but the exhibition IS expected also 10 furnish whole
some OF the articles exhibition will be used 10
illustrate Lectures and discussions before the asSo
citation.