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Inc tWenty-seventh annual meeting OF
the American Public Health association
opened at 10 o'clock yesterday morning
at the First Unitarian church and will
continue in session until Friday after
noon. The opening of the meeting was
very formal There were no speeches
and the association Immediately got down
to business. There were about 100
members present.
The subjects under discussion were
Found to be Of the greatest interest. and
The association was unable to set through
with all the papers and subjects on the
programme. The morning papers and
reports were finished during the morn
ing session, but two of the afternoon
subjects had to go by default on ac-
count of the lengthy discussion on the
subject OF disinfecuon. D1. Wyatt John
sion, bacterioIOgisr of the provincial
board OF health Of Quebec, related his
personal experience in disirfection and of
the methods which he had employed. The
matter was then thrown open for discus
sion, and eighteen members of the asso-
cation took part Among them were
I. Z. Wilkinson, New Orleans; Amland
RaVold, st. Louis, d. K. Sprague, United
States hospital service; AdClph Gehrnan.
Chicago; J. N. Hurry, indianapolis;
Frof. +. c. Robinson, Brunswick Me. :;
Frank Warner, Columbus; e. c. Hor-
ton, Columbus; Crosby Gray, PitIspure:
q. Z. Hill, Boston; S H. Ddrgln, Bos-
Ton; II. B. HorIbeck, Charleston, and F.
+. Westbrook, of the University Of Min
nesOta.
DR.. Wyatt Johnston said that he bad
FOUND that formaldehyde was a perfe tlv
satisfactory disln1ectant, ana man =
could be used in all cases Tor the de-
6tructon OF disease germs. TIL onlv
cases IN which steam was preferable, he
sdid, We're cases when considerable De ~
trauOn In very short time, a ma Ter
of minutes, was desired. F0rmaldehyde
has no bad effects, but a couple Of hours
time must be given for the door to uis-
perse. DR.. Johnston said that The effects
We're better when the formaldenyde WAS
used with heat. In the disc uss. on that
followed his remarks, the use Of lorna
dehyde in disinfecting rail- DAD Goa hes
Pullman cars, churches, schools, and
houses was taken up and ar endeavor
was made 10 arrive az some conclu ion
as to the best methods of using it. There
was some dispute as TO the efficacy or
the dlSInfecUant, but the general opinion
seemed to be that if it had at any me
failed to Kill the germs, it was he ause.
of the lack of understanding as 10 now
it should be used. The discuss sion was
Only ended by arrival Of the time for
closing the meeting.
The afternoon session opened with an
address on 1.-The Relation of the Labora-
tory to the Public Health" by Prof. w.
H. WEIGH, of Johns Hopkins university,
Baltimore. The public laboratory oc-
cupied most of the professors attention.
Mr.. WEIGH stated that the public Iabo-
ratory was a purely modern creation, and
was in fact the creation of this century.
With the exception of anatomical lahora-
tories, he said, there We're no public labo-
ratories before the present century Tie
first chemical laboratory was founded at
Eaton in 1929, and a number of others