Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-10-12
MEDICAL MEN TO MEET
The Annual Session of Ameri-
can Health Association.
DIR. WYMAN TO PRESIDE
ADDRESS OF WELCOME BY COM
MISSIONER MCFARLAND.
President Roosevelt to Receive the
Delegates October 80 in the
Elective Offices.

Arrangements have been made to hold
the thirty-first annual meeting of the Amer
lean Public Health Association in Washing
ton, October 20 to 80. inclusive. The con-
vention will comprise delegates from the
United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba
and many of the most prominent physi-
clans and sanitary specialists in the cOun
tries named will participate in the dis
cussions of the convention.
The opening meeting of the association
will be held Tuesday morning. October q,
at 10 o'clock, when an address will be made
by General George M. Sternberg, surgeon
general, L. S. A, retired. Dr. Walter Wy
man of this city, president of the associa-
ton, will deliver his annual address In the
banquet hall of the New Willard Tuesday
evening at o'clock, and an address of
welcome to the delegates will be delivered
by Commissioner Henry B. F. Macfar
land
All the meetings Of the association as a
whole will be held in the banquet hall of
the New Willard. while the sessions of the
laboratory section will be held in the med-
cal school of the Columbian University.
The executive committee of the association
will hold a meeting Monday morning. Oc-
tober 26. at 10 o'clock at the New Will
lard, and the laboratory section will meet
at the same hour in the Columbian Univer-
Slty medical school.
Topics for Discussion.
The executive committee has selected
twenty special topics for consideration at
the meeting, but papers on other sanitary
subjects will also be presented. The topics
selected for discussion by the executive
committee are as follows: Publication of
water supplies, disposal of industrial
wastes. publication and disposal of sewer
age, disposal of garbage. animal diseases
and animal food car sanitation, steamboat
and steamship sanitation, etiology of yell
low fever tuberculosis, plague, demography
and statistics in their sanitary relation,
cause and prevention of infectious diseases,
public health legislation, cause and preven-
ton of infant mortality, disinfectants and
disinfection, production and free distribu
ton of vaccine, teaching of hygiene and
granting of diplomas of doctor of public
health, sanitary aid societies, canteens in
armies.
Ten topics have been suggested for the
consideration of the section of bac-
teriology and chemistry, as follows:
Standard methods of water analysis,
the value of bacterial standard for
municipal milk supplies on diagnos
TIC procedures, the significance of bacillus
coli in water supplies, on bacillus tuber
culosis in man and animals, on laborator
tests of the efficiency of water filters, the
action of formaldehyde as a disinfectant,
on antitoxic and minimizing sera the re-
lation of protoza to disease, the varieties
and action of anaerobic bacteria in sewage.
Program of Entertainment.
For the entertainment of the visitors the
local committee on arrangements has pro-
vided for an excursion to the vaccine farm
of the National Vaccine Esta adjustment,
where luncheon will be served, Wednesday
noon, during the midday recess. In the
evening a reception will be rendered the
members of the association by the local
committee at the New Willard
President Roosevelt will receive the men,
bers of the association in the executive
offices at noon Thursday, October %, and
the delegates will make a trip to Mount
Vernon the following day.
DR.. William c. Woodward, health officer
for the district, is chairman of the local
committee on arrangements. The personnel
Of the committee is as follows:
Members Of Local Committees.
Subcommittee on reception and entertain
ment-Charman. Gen. G. NJ. Sternberg; DR..
H. T. Sewers, Rev.. Teunis S. Hamlin, DIR.
J. Ford Thompson, DR.. Harvey w. Wiley,
Dr. Samuel S. Adams, Rev. John Van
Schaick, Mr.. Willis L. Moore, DR.. Frank
Barker, Mr.. Richard Rathbun, DR.. w. ].
Pettus. Mr.. William w. Rockhll, Mr. Fran
els B. Loomis, Senior Don Gonzalo de
Quesada DIR. p NJ Rixey, Mr.. Carroll D.
Wright, Mr.. S. H. Kaufman. Mr. Beriah
wilkins, Mr.. NJ G. Seckendorlf, Mr.. S. w.
Woodward Col Calvin De Witt Right Rev.
Henry Y. Satterlee, Mr.. Charles w. Need
ham. Mrs. John B. Henderson, Mrs. H. l..
Barber, Mrs. C. NJ. Sternberg, DR.. Anita
Newcomb MCGEE, Mrs. Gardiner G. Hub
bard.
Subcommittee on membership-Chairm
DR.. E. D. E. Salmon; DR.. c. Wardell Stiles,
DR.. Emile A. de SchweinitZ, DR.. Robert a.
Marmion, DR.. G. Tuly Vaughn, Lieut. II.
Herbert Ford, DR.. Edward A. Balloch DR..
George C. ODER, DR.. Howard w. Barker.
DR.. John B. Nichols DR.. ]. B. Gregg Gusts,
DR.. J. w. Chappell. DR.. Howard H. Barker.
Subcommittee on railroad rates-Chair-
man, DR.. II. l.. E. Johnson; Mr. Lorenzo
Brown, the Southern railway; Mr.. William
C. Bronson, the c. and o. railroad; Mr..
Samuel B. Hege, the B. and Q. railroad;
Mr.. E. Youngman, the Pennsylvania rail-
road.
Subcommittee on program and place
of Notwithstanding, DR.. G. NJ. Kober;
DR.. John w. Bayne, DR.. Edward Q. Belt.
Dr. j. Wesley Bovee, Maj. William c. Bor-
den, DR., Joseph B. Bryan, Dr. John G.
Boyd, Dr. Swan M. Burnett, Dr. VIM. K.
Butler. DIR. G. Wythe Cook. DR.. Clarence
b. French. Prof. John D. Hird. Mr.. Leland
O. Howard, DIR. Joseph Taber Johnson, DR..
Charles c. Marbury, DR.. Oscar A. M. Nc
Kimmie DIR. Edward NJ. Parker, Dr. Chas.
Milton ]. Rosenau. DR.. A. R. Stands, DR..
D. Kerfut Shute, Jr. John van RENSSELAER,,
Dr. Thomas N. Vincent, Dr. Joseph S.
Wall, DIR. William H. Wilmer, DR.. Anne E.
Wilson, DIR. B. Rosalie Slaughter DR.. S.
A. Nordhoff-Jung, DR.. Ada r. Thomas and
DR.. w. c. Fowler.
Subcommittee on hotel accommodations
and badges-Chairman, DR.. G. L. Magru-
der; vice chairman, DR.. d. f. Hickling; DIR.
T. r. Sewers, DIR. A. H. Staples. DR.. 7. N.
Mclaughlin, DIR. E. w. Reisinger, DIR.
Richard Kingsman and Mr.. II. c. Mclean.
Subcommittee on finance-Chairman, DIR.
Ralph Walsh: Dr. Charles r. Collins, DIR.
William G. Morgan, DR.. Isaac S. Stone, DR..
W. S. Bowen, DR.. James Kerr, DR.. VIM. NJ.
Sprigg, DR.. Sterling Ruffin, Dr. George
Purviance Dr.. John A. Baker, Mr.. H.
Bradley Davidson, Mr. Arthur ID. Addison,
Mr. John Joy Edison, Mr.. Charles j. Bell,
Mr. Rufus H. Thayer, Prof. Charles E.
Munroe and Mr.. Thomas E. Waggaman.