The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-10
WATER AND
MILK NECESSARY
FOR GOOD HEALTH
Charities Conference Told About
:, Need of Their Proper
Supervision. u
EX-GOVERNOR SPEAKS AT
NEW JERSEY CONFERENCE
FavOrs Commission to Inyesti-
gate Moral Degeneracy.
Fort Absent.
lspecIal to the EvenIng sltar.

lSpecldA 10 tho Evening 6tuf.l
JERSEY CITY, Feb. 1O.-Todayss
session of the New Jersey State con
ference of Charities and Corrections,
which opened yesterday afternoon in
the High School, continued today, the
morning session beginning at $3.50
o'clock.
The first speaker this morning was
I. r. Thurlow. health officer of Plain
field, who spoke on ''The State and
Local Boards of Health Of New Jer-
sey." He advocated careful investiga-
ton of sanitary conditions in homes,
school, penal and charitable institu-
lions. He was followed by DR.. William
D. Sedgwick, professor of biology of
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology, Boston. His topic was Public
Health and Organized Charity" Water
that is conveyed by cities into the
homes of its inhabitants, he said, was
in a great many cases impure. It was
not, he thought, a difficult matter for
cities to obtain good water. 1t was the
duty of citizens to make sure of get
ting State n local boards of health
who would insist on this, he concluded.
According to Professor Sedgwick
much disease was taken into homes by
stale, infected milk. He suggested a
careful investigation Of the milk sup
ply source.
Professor Sedgwick advocated play
grounds for children. IA boy without
a playground is the father of the boy
without a job" he said. Clean streets,
too, he said, were necessary to health.
AT the conclusion of Professor Sedg-
wick's address DIR. Charles A. Clinton,
of the New York health department,
spoke on 1.-THE Work of the Health De-
partment for the Relief and Prevention
of tuberculosis"
DR.. George E.. MacLaughlin, of this
city, spoke on Correction in Local
Health Matters" At the conclusion
of the addresses there was a discussion
of the various subjects.
The Rev. Solomon Foster, rabbi of
the Temple B'nai ~Jeshurun, this city,
was one of the speakers at the OPEN
ing session of the New Jersey Con-
ference of Charities and Corrections.
which was held in Jersey City yester-
day. The Rev. Cornelius Clifford, pro-
fessor of philosophy at Seton Hall Col
lege. was also a. speaker.
Rabbi Foster said: "If the active
members of the association could get
the people to know all they knew, all
the States ills in a trice will be elm
mated. The greatness of a country
depends upon the spirit of its people.
This conference is for the exchange OF
views, in order that they may DO
multiplied until they become multiple.
1t is a clearing house of ideas. This
conference can be made useful by MAX
ing justice, and not charity, the DOM
inant feature. We need better con.
ditions of living more than we do
f1owerpots and soup houses. The need
is a union of social forces tina will call
forth our best services. The people
are waiting for q scientific call and they
will respond to a man."
Former Governor Edward C.. Stokes,
was the principal speaker, taking the
place of Governor Fort, who was un-
able to be present. More revenue for
carrying on the work of the confer-
ence is needed, Mr.. Stokes said
The State. he said, was doing its
share. 1t was Individual aid, both
moral and financial, that is needed. He
urged the appointment Of a commits
sion to investigate moral degeneracy.
Other speakers were ex-Congressman
Marshall Van Wrinkle, George B..
Wight. Commissioner of Charities and
Correction; DIR. William H. Allen, the
Rev. Cornelius Brett, and the Very
Rev. Dean Smyth. The conference was
largely attended.