Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-08-11
HYGIENIC DISSERTATIONS.
Learned Men Meet in London TO Discus
Methods ofImproving the Health-Lead
ing Scientists of the World Will Take


ing Scientists of the World VIII Take
Part in the Proceedings.
LONDON. August l0-The seventh annual
session of the International Congress of Hy
gfene and Demography opened in st. James
Hall, in this city, this afternoon. At an
early hour this morning the royal yacht left
Portsmouth for Cowes, Isle Of Wight, the
object Of the voyage being to bring to Eng
land the Prince OF Wales, who was to opreside
at the Congress. His Highness arrived in
London in good time and when he called the
Congress to order there were 1880 delegates
present in the Hall. Among the more prom
inent delegates in attendance were Prot.
Pasteur, of Paris, and Prof Koch, of Berlin.
Many OF the leading doctors and scientists
of Europe will take part In the deliberations
When the Prince of Wales arose to make
his address of welcome he was heartily
cheered. He discoursed learnedly on hy-
giene, and said that the people were exposed
to many sources OF danger, owing to the eX-
listing state of factories, from 0vercrowd
ing, and from the unsanitary conditions of
towns He was happy to say, however, that
statistics showed a marked improvements in
this direction, which might safe.y be taken
as an earnest sign Of the increased good to be
accomplished by scientists in the future. The
work of the Congress will be arranged to fall
under four chief divisions indicated by its
title-hygiene and demography.
Various Things to BE Talked Over.
In the first division there will be nine
sections namely: preventive medicine"
under the Presidency ofSir Joseph Fayrere;
"Bacteriology," under the Presidency of Sir
Joseph Lister; 1.-THE relation Of the disease
of animals to those of men," President, Sir
Nigel kingscote; Infancy, Childhood and
School life" President, Mr.. Diggle; "Chemis-
try and physics in relation to hygiene"
President, Sir II. E. Roscoe: architecture
in relation to hygiene" President Sir Ar
thur W. Bloomfeld; "Engineering in rela-
tion to hygiene, ~ President, Sir John Goode;
"Naval and military hygiene" President
Lord Vantage. and Estate Hygiene" Presi-
In the second division there are no Sec
tions, the members assembling as whole
under the Presidency of Mr.. Francis Galton,
and the word "Demography'' is said i'll the
programme to include industrial hygiene
and the conditions of communities from u
statistical point of view. An immense
number of papers are to be read. and the
number or foreigners who have promised to
speak or read Is such as to show that the
Congress will in the fullest sense be inter-
national Among the many important sub
jects to be discussed is the general question
of the means to be employed for preventing
the spread of epidemic diseases from coun-
Try to country, which Will be introduced by
Surgeon General j. NJ. Cunningham.
How Ships Should Be Treated.
Professor Proust, of Paris, will follow
with paper on the measures which should
from infected ports, and Inspector General
Lawson will read paper on the Com
municability Of cholera from country to
country country" DR.. Edward seaton & will open, open.
reference to its prevention, and Sir Dyce
Duckworth will read paper on "The rela-
tion of alcoholism to public health" He will
be followed by Professor Westergaard, Of
Copenhagen, who will discuss the same sub
ject.
DR.. Ransome. of Manchester Prof FinkeI-
several other prominent gentlemen have
promised to read papers on various subjects,
The subject of tuberculosis will be widely |
discussed, and papers will be read on "The
means of comforting immunity from bacteri- |
illogical affections" In the third section |
the subject of "Rabies' is given the place of |
honor. In the fourth section the papers |
general questions of school hygiene to the |
most varied matters of detail, including, for |
instance, the consideration of ringworm and |
means which should be employed in train |
ing the deaf, the blind and children Of de- |
fective intelligence.
The Effect of Fogs on the Health.
In the fifth section, among other subjects, |
fOgs and the air of towns and the treatment |
of sewage will be colored. In this section |
the principal subject Of discussion will be |
the hygienic principles for the extension |
and internal Improvements of towns and the |
COuUTOl VI tuc COnSGTuCtlOu VI UullulnBS.
The seventh section will consider among |
other topics the questions of sewage dis
posal anu of water supply and the destruc
tion of refuse. The eighth section will have |
papers on the diet of soldiers and sailors and |
on en.eric fever in India and in active |
service.
The ninth section will deal with the vari-
ous ways the State may intervene to pro-
mote good sanitation and with the disposal
Of the dead, on which last subject papers are
promised by Sir Henry Thompson and Mr..
seymour Haden. In.the division of "Demo-
and mortality in relation to occupation.
Thrift in Great Britain" will be the subject
Of paper by Mr.. Rowland Hamilton. The
range of subjects to be discussed in this Sec
Jon is very wide, and In all the departments
Of inquiry the debates will be conducted by
men who hold the highest places in their
several studies. A social programme, no
ess complete than the scientific, has been
completed for the members of the congress.
Many interesting excursions have been
planned and many of the institutions of
London will be thrown open to the visitors.