The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-09-23
to all professions and the Intelligent

| to all professions and the intelligent
laiety.
Clark Bell LII. D., president Of the
Medico-Legal Society. is chairman OF
the committee on organization APP
/ pointed by the management OF the
| Worlds Fair. Among those who Will be
active in the coming congress for the
checking, if not determination, of the
disease will be some of the most prom
inent medical and legal authorities OF
the country, besides many noted men
of public life.
in battling the dread disease is asked,
it being the purpose of the congress 10
educate the public mind to methods
which can be applied in daily walks OF
life. to at least prevent the spread OF
tuberculosis in all of its forms. Not
only this but an unlimited campaign
to secure suitable legislation is to be
the desired result of awakening the
public to action.
The congress will be of an interna-
| tional nature. The executive board OF
the American Congress of Tuberculo-
sis applied to the United States OFF,
Gals for influence and sanction, and re-
ouested that invitations be sent to for
eign countries, that their delegates
might be sent. This was done through
the diplomatic corps, Secretary OF state
Hay. who himself is one of the honor
ary presidents of the congress, person.
ally attending to it. The invitations
were limited to the western hemisphere
except the colonial possessions.
Doctor Bell in writing of the pur-
poses of the congress and it's hoped-for
results says:
If it be conceded that tuberculosis
is infectious or communicable from one
person to another, there can be no
graver problem presented to the race
than that of how far intelligent and
carefully prepared Legislation can be
used for the protection of human life
from that form of disease, which now
numbers more victims than any other
form suffered by mankind.
whatever may be the result of the
controversies of the pathologists and
psychologists, all these problems sink
into insignificance when we are con-
fronted by the fact that consumption is
communicable. and that the interven-
ton of the law becomes a public neces
sity. for the protection of mankind
from the ravages of this awful, this
terrible disease.
The campaign before the American
congress on tuberculosis is, therefore,
pre- eminently a campaign of education
not alone of the masses of people but
of the professions of both law and med
icine.''
Among the questions taken up VIII
be How far can Legislation be devised
that can arrest, avert or even diminish
the terrible mortality of consumption"
How can this congress devise means,
that will educate the public mind to a
recognition of the imperative necessity
Of legislative action?' How can pub
lie opinion be best Created?' and How
can the public be best aroused?"
Already the meeting of the congress
is being discussed at length by the To-
cal medical profession, and a list of
members who have thus far consented
to act on the committee on arrange
ments and reception follows: Doctors
NJ r. Hughes. No. 1857 Olive street;
| c. NJ. Nicholson. No. 29OO Washington
avenue: j. r. Lemen, No. 1928 Lucas
| avenue: Bransford Lewis, No. 627 Cen
tury building; William McPneeters,
No. 1882 Pine street; Benjamin NJ.
| Hynes. No. zoos Victor street: Fred
erck Kolbenheyer, No. zoos Lafayette
avenue; w. F. Morrow, Kansas City:
j. Wood asset ST. Joseph, Mo-: r. F.
! Schleuter No. 900 Park avenue and
William Porter No. 1886 Washington
| boulevard.