The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-12-05
TALKED OF MOSQUITO
INSECT DISCUSSED BY SANITARY
 CONFERENCE.
Dr. Still Says Condition of the "Poor Whites" of the South is Due to the Hook
 Worm.

l washington, Dec. 4-Ine sanitary coh- | ference of American Republics which has been in session here since Tuesday came
 to and end tonight. Santiago de Chill was selected as the place of next meeting
 which will occur March 15 1904. Dr. Eduardo Moore, the delegate from Chile,
 assured the delegates that all Chile would welcome them and said an hygienic ex- hibit would be given in Santiago at the | time of the conference.
 The mosquito came in for a god share of attention during the closing session and | several resolutions bearing on the subject of infection were adopted
 A resolution offered by pr. Guiteras l making the statement that the insect is
 the one factor in the communication of the disease and recommends that the gov
 ernments represented in the conference | approve measures employed in Havana for the prevention of the spread of the disease Ion land" for isolation of cases and the Immigration of buildings; that the prevention of the importation of the disease by vessels wherein persons actual ly infected are found must conform to
 the methods employed on land. The reso
 lution further declares: There are
 questions concerning the importation of
 infected mosquitos that require further
 study before any decided modification of the quarantine laws can be recom-
 mended.
 The subject of bringing the quarantine
 lines to conform with the new doctrine of mosqunito infection shall be referred to | the International Sanitary Bureau of the American Republics for report at the | next meeting.
 The following preamble and resolution, offered by Dr. Reynolds. was adopted: Whereas, bubonic plague and other diseases are spread by rats, mice and other lower animals, which, to great
 extent, find sustenance in animal and
 vegetable kitchen wastes commonly call | ed garbage; therefore be it
 1 Resolved, That all organic waste or
 garbage should be kept separately on the premises until it can be removed unmixed | with anything else and destroyed. A resolution by Dr. Reynolds recited
 that typhoid fever and Asiatic cholera
 are caused by swallowing food or drink | contaminated by the discharge of previ-
 ous cases, ard declared that if all the
 discharges of every existing case of ty i phoid fever and Aslatic cholera were in- stantly disinfected. such diseases would cease to be a menace to the world. A long resolution pertaining to the | work of the international sanitary bu- reau, whose permanent headquarters are | to be at Washington. was adopted by | the conference. It makes the duty of the bureau to urge all the republics repre- sented in the conference to promptly and regularly transmit to the bureau all data | of every character relative to the san- 1 tary condition of thei- respective ports and territories; to furnish the bureau every opportunity and aid for thorough, careful ard scientific study and invesu- gation of peStilential diseases occurring in the territories of the republics; re- quires the bureau to lend it's aid and ex- perierce towards the widest possible pro- | ection of the public health of each of the republics in order that disease may ba eliminated and commerce facilitated; and
 also to encourage and aid or enforce in all proper ways the sanitation of sea ports including the sanitary improve mentS of harborS, sewerage, draining of l the soil, paving, elimination of infectoin l from buildings and the destruction of | mosquitoes and other Vermln.
 The recommendation is made that fund | of $5,cOO be collected by the Bureau of American Republics to carry out the above provisions.
 
 | demonstration was read by Dr. Wardell | Stile of the Marine Hospital Service | Regarding this parasite popularly known | as the hook worm, pr. Stie made the in | teresting statement that to it was re | sponsible the condi ion of the so-called
 poor whites in the sand districts of the | South. The presence of the hook worm l he said, the cause of their poo. | physical and mental state. The paras,tr | in the human system producing a condi- ton of extreme aenimia similar in it. l symptoms to a sever attack of malaria He said that any generation of people | placed under like conditions, must detc- | riorate. he condition of the children +! | the factories of the South, of which c | much had been said of late. Dr. St., added was not due so much to the wol.
 but to the effect produced on the systcu | by the noxious worm. It's eradicatiou | he declared was the only solution in ti.
 matter of bringing about better conditions | among these people.