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represented by men of great distinc- ton. The Secretary. Dr. Johannes Nietner. was Secretary General of the
 recent Congress on Hygiene and Dem ography. Among the members are pr. Pannwitz. the Secretary General of the international Tuberculosis Association;
 pr Ernst von Leyden. and pr. Johan-
 nes Orth of the University of Berlin. Noted Men to Attend. | Hon. Otto von Printzkoid. the Chair man of the Swedish committee, is the nrst chamberlain of the Swedish court.
 The secretary. pr. Bertil Bulare, Is the president of the great Swedish Anti! Tuberculosis League. the largest vol
 unteer association of the kind in ex- | istence.
 The chairman of the Austrian com- mittee are well known investigators. They are Prof. Leopold v. Schrotter, of
 the Medical Faculty of the University or Vienna; Dr. Anton WeichseIbaum
 and Dr. Richard Paltauf. of the De- | pertinent of Pathology of the Univer-
 sity of Vienna. The secretaries are pr H. V Schrotter. pr. L., Teleky and
 Dr.. J. D. Bartel.
 Dr. B.. Patrihios, the chairman for
 the committee for Greece is Secretary
 of the Department of Health of Greece. l and Secretary-GeneraI of the Greek
 Red Cross Society. pr. Aristotle Kou-
 sis, the secretary. is a professor of the University of Athens Dr. Constant 1 Savas. a member of the committee, is Professor of Hygiene in the University of Athens and is physician to the King
 or Greece; pr. Manonssos is the
 principal medical director of the mili-
 tary hospital at Athens; Dr. >KalIion- zis is Professor of Surgery, and Dr. Pierre J. Rondopoulo is Professor of
 Pathology at the University of Athens. pr. Maren Rousseff. director of the Department of Health of Sophia, Is | nf Elrrlc ssf fA Dr. Ivan Oggnianoff, Secretary of the I Superior Board of Health at Sophia, is | secretary. and the members include pr. Georghi Zolotovitch. pr. Ivan The
 odoroff, director of the Sanitorium for
 Tuberculosis at Trojan. and pr. s. A. | Valcovitch.
 1 South America to Take Part.
 Since the organization of the Inter- national Congress on Tuberculosis about seventeen years ago, the gather ings have been held every three years.
 the previous meetings having taken place in Germany. France. Russia, Aus 1 trta, Italy and England. The Amerf- | can Congress will have the distinction
 of being the first at which the Span 1 ish speaking countries will have a l prominent part, and 1t will be the first l at which Spanish will be one of the official languages. The other languages | are German, French and English. The | 1 will be we'll represented in the Con- l gress, and the national committees for
 those countries have organized and in- clude men who are actively identified
 with the anti-tuberculosis movement. Dr. A. Herrera Vegas, the Chairman i of the Venezuelan Committee, is pres I tdent of the Venezuelan Anti-tubercu- 1 losis League. and member of the Na- tional Academy of Medicine at Cara cas. Dr. P. Acosta Ortiz, tho vice l presidentsis a director of tho hospital | at Vargas, and Dr l.. Razetti, another
 member of the committee, Is vice-rec-
 tor of the University of Venezuela. and | permanent secretary of the National | Academy of Medicine. All of the rnem- bers of the Brazilian Committee are l actively identified with the anti-tuber- l culosis movement in that country. The | committee includes fDr. J. J. ATevedo
 Lima. of Rio Janeiro. President of the | Brazilian Anti-tubercuiosis League; Dr. l Oswaldo Cruz. Director-General of the Department of Public Health: pr. !. J. 1 Seabra and Dr. Cypriano de Freitas. of l Rio de Janeiro. The Chairman is pr. | Tavaras de Lyra, the Minister of the i Interior: two of the other members are i Mir. Alcindo Guanabara, a member of
 the House of Deputies, and editor of | the Brazilian newspaper, "1mprensap" and Colonel Ernesto Senna. editor of | The "Jaurnal of Commerce" of Rio
 The Costa Rlcan Committee has named pr. Louis P. Jiminez, chairman. and Dr. Teodoro Picado, of San Jose,
 secretary. Other members are pr. Teo- doro Prestinary, Dr. Benjamin Herman
 deg and pr. Marcos zunega, all of San
 Jose.
 l The president of the Cuban com
 mittee is pr. Guiteras, formerly Pro- I lessor of Pathology in the University
 of Pennsylvania, and now at the Uni
 versity of Havana. Dr. J. |. Jacob
 sen, the yice-president. is president of ! the Cuban Anti-Tuberculosis League. 1 The secretary Is pr. M. c. Lebredo of Havana. Two well known members of this committee are Dr. Aristides
 Agramonte, the last surviving member of the famous yellow fever commission of the United States Army, and Dr.
 Carlos J, Finlay, who was recently | awarded the Mary McKinsley medal by
 the Liverpool Association for the Study
 of Tropical Diseases.
 The Congress will be divided into
 seven sections each of which will be under the direction of men of par ticular distinction in their respective 1 fields. These are the sections and the l chsirman of each:
 | Pathology and bacteriology, over
 which William 1T. Welch of the Johns l I1OpklnS IlOSDlLdl WILL pECHlu0s |. Clinical study of tuberculosis, pre-
 sided over by pr. Vincent Y. Bowditch of Boston.
 Surgery and orthopedics Dr. Chas. Fl. Mayo of Rochester. Minn., president.
 Tuberculosis in children. under the presidency of pr. Abraham Jacobi of New York City.
 HygienIc, social, industrial, and eco-
 homie aspects of tuberculosis, Edward
 T. Devine, of New York City, presi- dent.
 state and municipal control of tu- berculosis, under the presidency of Sur
 geon General Walter Wyman of the
 United States Public Health and Ma rine Hospital Service.
 | Tuberculosis in animals and it's rela-
 tion to man, Dr. Leonard Pearson of Philadelphia, president.
 Eminent Speakers. Tn connection with the Congress a
 series of public lectures will be given
 by some of the most eminent of the
 foreign investigators. This list, in- cIudes pr. K. W. Philip of Edinburgh,
 founder of the first tuberculosis dis pensary.
 pr. Theodore Williams of London. pr. Arthur Newsholme. Health Of- hcer of Brighton, England, director of | King Edwards Sanitarium.
 Dr. E. c. Spronck of Utrecht. Hol-
 land.
 pr. Turbsn, of Davos-Platz. switz-
 erland. the originator of the scheme