The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-01-30
Recent Conference In At
lanta Started the Great
Campaign.
PLANS MADE FOR FIGHTING THE
VAMPIRE IN EVERY SOUTHERN
STATE-DR. PORTER is LEAD
ING THE ASSAULT IN FLORIDA
AND PHYSICIANS ARE ALL BE-
COMING ACTIVE.

in store for the hook worm, the in
sidious disease that has made such
inroads upon the manhood of the
south
It's doom is sealed. Within the near
future the forces of science, of human
ity and of progress will be marshal
led in battle array, and the war upon
the scourge of the south will be wag-
ed with relentless vigor until the dis
ease is eXteriminated, and the coun-
try cleansed of it's last, lurking
germs.
Within the next few days. DR.. H. F.
Harris, president of the Southern
Health conference, and w. G. Cooper,
secretary of the new organization,
will meet to select the members of
the executive committee of five pres
cribed by the constitution adopted ut
the conference which closed in Allan
ia last week.
To Formulate Plans.
AS soon as this committee is Sc
lected a meeting will be called, at
which the plan of active campaign
against the hook worm disease will
be clearly mapped out, and the forces
arrayed against it modified.
Just now, no definite plans have
been formulated. The conference just
closed did it's work in a manner that
will ever be source of keen pleasure
to those interested in the movement.
Enthusiasm marked every session ans
the attendance was far above the
most sanguine expectations of it's pro
jectors.
Thursday morning found the two
gentlemen in whose hands the guild
ance of the campaign is entrusted
completely exhausted with the work
of the convention. Neither DR.. Harris
nor Secretary Cooper have been able
to give any thought to future action as
yet. To a press representative who
called upon him Thursday, Secretary
Cooper said:
1T is impossible for me to tell you
anything as to the plans for the fu-
ture as yet President Harris will
have to appoint the members of the
executive committee, five in all, with
whom we will both serve, and this
will be done soon.
The Logical Course. A.
"The logical course will then be to
make definite plans for the cam
paign against the hook worm. War TO
the death has BEEN formally declared,
and the work will BE pursued until it
is finished to the satisfaction of all
concerned, but exactly what will be
done first, or how and where and
when the first gun of the campaign
will be fired, cannot yet be announc-
ed
One thing is certain, and that is
that the operations of the Southern
Health conference, while cooperative
with those of the Rockefeller com
mission, will be entirely separate and
distinct therefrom.
1t was announced by DR.. Wickliffe
Rose of Nashville. executive secre-
tary of the Rockefeller commission,
who was in attendance at the confer
ence that the plans of that body for
the war on the worm are practically
completed.
. With happy discernment. the COM
mission has decided that its cam
paign must be conducted along two
lines at the same time. these being
educational and practical in nature.
It is proposed to hold both state and
county clinics throughout the sections
of the country where the hook worm
is prevalent, these clinics to be under
the direction of the state and county
boards of health. In addition, syS-
tematic and well selected methods If
education will be inaugurated, dealing
with the prevention and cure of the
disease.
To Spend 100000.
The manner in which the $1,000, 0G0
gift of John D. Rockefeller for the
determination of the hook worm win
be spent will be along these lines, and
the commission feels that great
good will be done before the money
is all gone.
While the Southern Health confer
ence will not have the spending of any
part of this sum, it will receive the
aid encouragement and hearty 90
operation of the Rockefeller commits
sion, and as the interest of emdical
men, commercial and trades bodies
and all citizens of the south who have
| the progress and advancement 70 the
| country at heart is enlisted in the
| case. success seems absolutely assut-
| ed.
| AS the means of prevention are
| simple. and the treatment for the dis
ease cheap and easy, it is safe to
| predict that not many years will pass
! before the hook worm will be Danish
| ished forever from the country 20
which it was imported from Africa SO
many years ago.
! When the executive committee of
| the Southern Health conference meets
! it will. in addition to mapping out
| the campaign. appoint the place for
! the conference OF, 1911.
DR.. Porter Is Active.
| DR.. Jos. Y. Porter, Florida's eff
| cient health officer. is leading the
! fight in Florida and he has already
taken the matter ND by letter with
| the physicians of the state. The
newspapers are taking up the IL
| as well and ii will probably be carried
| into the public schools as well as in
other WAYS.
| The disease is easily treated and
! cured and with the sentiment that