Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-11
MEDICOS AT CAPITOL
CONFERENCE WITH HOUSE COM
MITTEE ON PENDING BILL.

The legislative council of the American
Medical Association had 4 conference last
ing almost the entire forenoon with the
House committee on military affairs. urging
the claims of the army and navy reorgani-
cation bill. The session was considered by
the doctors to be most important one and
they were able to present the various claims
that they thought made the reorganization
bill one of the most important pieces of
legislation before the committee this ses-
sion The members of the council called in
formally on Senator Reyburn of North Da-
kots who is Interested in some of the pure
food and other legislation that the council
is dealing with. This afternoon they met
at the New Willard at = o. clock and called
in body on the Secretary of Agriculture
Surgeon General Rixey will give a dinner
in honor of the visiting physicians tomor-
row evening
The discussion on the proposed DEPART
ment OF public health yesterday was pro-
tracted, and the council decided to go ahead
with the work Of preparing n bill There
was considerable criticism of the existing
state Of affairs, In which the Secretary of
the Treasury, who was not necessarily q
medical man, was made the practical health
officer of the country. The meeting adopted
set OF resolutions speaking highly of the
work Of the marine hospital in the past
especially with reference to the recent yell
low fever outbreak at New Orleans and
after recommending an amplification of its
powers said further:
Resolved, That it is the sense of the ma
tional Legislative council that a department
OF public health, with representation in the
cabinet of the President, ought to be es-
tablished; such department to embrace an
expansion of the present public health
agencies in operation in other departments
of the government. together with such ad-
ditional agencies and functions as may best
subserve the public welfare:
Resolved, That the committee on legisla-
tion. appointed by the Americal Medical AS
ISOLATION. be and is hereby requested to
proceed al once with the preparation of a.
bin for this purpose, 10 be presented to
Congress at the earliest practicable time. ff
possible at the present session."
DR.. CarroIl's Record.
DIR. j.. s. Fulton OF Maryland said he
wished TO call the attention OF the meeting,
to the record of DIR. James Carroll the sole
survivor of the yellow fever commission
sent 10 Cuba in 1900 to make a study OF the
disease and devise means for checking it.
It was this commission. 1t will be remem-
bered, that discovered the fact OF mosquito
transmission, the first discovery ever made
with any practical bearing on the control of
the disease
In this connection DR.. Fulton called at
tertiou to the fact that Dr. Carroll. now
stationed at the Army Medical Museum in
this city. had allowed himself to be bitten
by an infected mesquite and contracted the
disease in furtheranCe of the eXperime nts
that were being carried out Dr. Fulton
said this was an act which deserved recog-
milton from the government on the ground
or distinguished conduct. This resolution
was adopted by standing vote
number of other reports were received
DIR. j. T. Wilson of Sherman, Tex. spoke
of the necessity of controlling the move
ments of wandering and INDECENT consump-
tfves. and DR.. Reed urged the regulation of
the sale of patent medicines and d law ex-
acting the display of the formula OF such
remedies on the wrapping of the bottle