Goldsboro semi-weekly argus., 1909-06-19
PHYSICIANS In CONCLAYE.
State Medical Society i'm Session il
AsheyilIe.

State Medical Society i'm Session i'm
AsheyilIe.
Asheville, N. c., June 15.-The fifty
sixth annual meeting of the North
Carolina Medical Society, which be-
gan it's sessions here today, promises
to be a very interesting one from the
medical standpoint. Several subjects
of great Importance to the health con-
ditions of the State and the subjects
~pellagra, which the experts declare is
increasing rapidly. will be thorough
ly discussed.
The convention vas called to order
this morning at eleven o'clock by DIR.
T. E. w. Brown, chairman of the local
committee on arrangements. Rev.
R. F. Campbell, D. D., delivered an
earnest invocation. The address of
welcome was made by Judge Thomas
A. Jones, who, while making a very
appropriate speech, offered the doc
tors som very helpful suggestions in
regard to studying medical jurispru-
dence. Judge Jones declared that they
should study medical Jurisprudence,
not only to be able tt hold their own
III any court, but also for their own
5elf-protection when called to the
stand for expert testimony. He ad-
yised them, even at the expense Of his
1wn-the legal professionals avoid
using too technical terms before a
jury.
DR.. C. A. Julian, of Thomasville,l
responded in a beautiful speech to the
address of welcome. He made a glow
ing description of Asheville and its
natural surroundings, and said it was
like travelling through a long desert
to meet in this oasis among the hills
and he was glad to get here. He said
that he had found from the schools,
the hospitals and other charitable in
! situations of Asheville, that the peo-
pie here were truly their brothers
keepers. He said they would return
to their homes inspired to higher
hopes, and to perfect mon them
selves a more harmonious and perfect
union.
DR.. j. Highsmith, president II the
Medical Society, delivered the presi-
dents address, taking as his subject,
Hygiene in Relation to Public
Health"
DR.. Highsmith made a strong ad-
dress and traced the gradual awaken
ing of the public to the necessity of
observing sanitary principles. This
development has been going along for
the last thirty years, but very little,
he declared, had been accomplished
to what would be done within the next
few years. The u~p-to-date medicine,
he declared, was the preventative
medicine. The public must gradually
be educated up to sanitation. He re-
ferred to the good that had resulted in
the schools of Boston, New York and
Chicago by having sanitary inspectors
for the schools.
He made several recommendations,
the first of which was hat the State
should pass a law requiring physi-
clans to report every case of tubercu-
osis, and that the cases should be
-reated in sanitariums and thus avoid
he danger of the health of others.
The second recommendation was
chat a law should be passed making
t a misdemeanor for any parent or
guardian to allow a child who vas
born defective to go without sufficient
medical treatment.
The third recommendation vas that
the Legislature should pass a aw
providing for a sanitary Inspector
physician-who should visit the
schools frequently, and thoroughly
look after the health of the school
children. He called attention to the
advances made by the last Legislature
in establishing a sanitarium for the
treatment of tuberculosis, but said
that this was only a step. The State
had further advanced by appointing
w. S. Rankin, of Wake Forest, to the
new position of secretary to the State
board of health. He paid a great trib-
ute to the work of DIR. r. III. Lewis, OF
Raleigh, who has done so much for
public health.
SIR THOMAS Upton.