Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-12
THE QUARAN TINE LAWS
Discussion of International
Regulations Today.
SANITARY CONGRESS
MEMBERS PAY A VISIT TO THE
WHITE HOUSE.
Order Passed to Have United States
Pharmacopioea Translated Into
Spanish-Wyman's Address.

| This proved to be the busiest day so far
| In the international sanitary convention
| The delegates met late but used up the first
hours OF the day in a discussion of the pro-
| posed international quarantine regulations.
| A committee had been working on trans
| lation of the convention signed by various
nations at Paris in 1908 with a view TO in
| Guiding yellow fever In the list OF diseases
| dealt with and otherwise adapting it to the
needs of the Pan-American convention
| This draft was not entirely completed when
| the convention met, and it will probably be
| allowed to go over for a final vote either
| late today or early tomorrow.
The meeting adjourned at Has to
| proceed to the White House. where the
| dent
The delegates were received by the Presi-
dent today. The chief executive made a
Drlef speech, and his remarks were trans
| lated into Spanish and repeated to the dele
| gates, who were greatly pleased.
| United States Pharmacopia Translation
Another question touched on by the con-
| vention today was the translation of the
| United States pharmacopia into Spanish so
| as to be available for use throughout the
| North and South American countries. The
United States pharmacopia was recently re-
| vlsed and codfed at considerable expense
| and 1t was thought that it would be a
| great convenience as well as a great saw
| ing TO have 1t put in shape for use through
| out the western hemisphere.
| "A resolution for the translation of the
| pharmocopia at the expense of the bureau
OF American republics.
1t has been arranged definitely for DR..
| Hunt of Philadelphia to come over and ad-
| dress the convention. DR.. L. o. Howard of
| the Agricultural Department will appear.
| tomorrow and will speak on the distribu-
| tlon OF the yellow fever mosquito not only
L taS h4nf in
Is we'll
During the reading of the minutes DR.,
Medina OF Nicaragua rose and begged the
| chair that he might be allowed to with
| draw the paper he had yesterday presented
| containing what had been taken to be
| structures on the personnel of certain South
American sanitary bodies.
| DR.. Medina said that the idea he wished
| 10 convey was not that the individual mem
bers OF the sanitary corps Were wanting in
| scientific attainments, but that the regu-
! lations under which they worked were
| faulty, and they could be better regulated
| by comprehensive and uniform inter-
national agreement covering some of the
faults criticised.
DR.. Uloa, the representative of Costa
Rica. said he was glad the explanation had
been made, and DR.. Medina was authorized
to substitute another paper for the one
which had threatened to disturb the har-
mony OF the convention.
President Wyman's Remarks.
Wyman said:
Gentlemen: We are about TO proceed
to the White House to pay our respects
to President Roosevelt. Before starting I
wish to assure you that you will have a
cordial reception and that you WILL with
out doubt, be greeted with words of en-
couragement regards the objective aims
of this convention. | wish to state that no
other President of the United States has
publicly expressed often and so elo-
quently an appreciation of the character and
labors of the physician in regard TO his
sacred relation to his patients. to his civic
duties, and to his lobars as a sanitarian.
I'm his address before the Association of
Military Surgeons of the United States. his
address at the unveling of the monument
in Washington erected to the memory of
DIR. Benjamin Rush, at the laying of the
corner stone of the Naval Medical School.
and very recently before the Association
of Physicians of Long Island. his words
were words of encouragement and of wis
dom. He has declared that in military life
the surgeon besides being a surgeon bears
all the hardships of a soldier and the re-
sponsibilites OF administrator; he has
| declared that the doctor who stands high
in his profession in any city counts as one
of the most valuable assets in that citys
civic work, that doctor can be good
doctor or a good citizen unless he does his
duty by the state, and that doctors must
personally pay attention 10 their civic
duties because 'everybodys business Is
nobody's business II must not be left to
everybo but individually the medical
man should take interest in state mat
| tiers.
He has thus shown his appreciation of
the sentiments that are so dear 10 us as
physicians and sanitarians. namely. that
our labors are highly essential to the wei
| fare of the state as well as to the indi-
viduaI In exemplifcation of this he has
expressed the greatest interest and conf
dence in the work of the santarians of the
isthmian canal zone. and has taken an ini-
tfative the good results of which are incal-
culable i'm the sanitary work which was be-
gun and is still being conducted in New Or
leans against the yellow fever pestilence.
In expressing this appreciation of our
President l am only echoing the voluntary
expressions which l have heard on many
sides, and particularly at the recent meet
ing of the great American Medical Associa-
tion in Portland, Ore, where comments of
the above nature were frequent, prompted
solely by appreciation In the minds of the
medical profession of the sentiments and
support of our President in matters relating
to individual and public health"
Reservoir for Naval Academy.