The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-06
ALDERMAN URGES
SANITARY REFORM
Wants Compulsory Physical Ex-
animation Of School Chill
dren in Virginia.
MAKES ADDRESS TO DOCTORS
Seaboard Medical Association in
Annual Session at New
port News.
MAKES ADDRESS TO DOCTORS
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Newport News, Va, Dccemper o.
Dr. e win "A Alderman. president Of
the University Of Virginia and DR..
Cyrus Thompson, of Jacksonville, \.
O.. were the principal speakers at the
opening session OF the sixteenth an
nual gathering of the Seaboard Med
ical association OF Virginia and North
CaroiiEu Tonight at the Olympic The
atre" the former discussing The Value
OF Trained Medical Man to a COM
inunity," and the latter speaking on
~. aste.
Addresses of welcome were delivered
by Mayor Marquis Jones. W. H. Coionna
president of the Chamber OF Commerce.
and DR.. Joseph L. Buxton, president of
! inc Newport News MEDICAL Association
ana responses were made by DIR. III.
w. Carter of Washington. ~ c., and
, Dr. }. II. tawles. of Suffolk
Following the meeting, a smoker
ana luncheon were given at the War
WICK Hotel by tch local medical as
Of the University Of Virginia, in honor
.. DR.. Alderman
Ihere arc about 100 physicians at
tending the convention, and the ses
kions VIII continue until Thursday
afternoon. Many prominent surgeons
ana specialists from all parts OF the
East and South. and surgeons of the
government service will address the
convention Tomorrow and Thursday.
DE-. Aldcrman'B Address.
Fewer and better eoIipnod nadI.,
institutions and fewer and more thor
oushly taught doctors are natural and
desirable results OF the change tho
hedical profession has undergone with
m ~ 'nc past thirty years, according to
II hidcrinan. Much already has bceIiac
complished in this direction. DR. Alder-
ginni e. - nc
I.,.d dhere We're fifty-seven medical col
itses In the South in 1910" said The
speaku, In which region II sna,ns
Ia ARP elear that four would answer
al purposes. The South now contains
one doctor for every 100 people. prus.
sla considers herself overstockcd Win
G Gne ior every 1000. Thirteen hundred
year. when 400 would have served nj
purposes due to death and Increase ~
population" IL
Inc speaker expressed the belief thai
t'nisofy physical examination and
treatment OF school children in an
99rsanized scientific way Is the moat
fundamental sanitary reform of our
IRA ira ana declared 1t .waa his mr.
~ p1Sy 10 SEND out from the University
~ Nirsinia trained and capable man
TO preach that Idea and demand tho
service throughout the South.
more are to-day In Virginia" he
sald. 100000 white children at school
Sixty per cent, or 10000 of them.nre
una pic to take full advantage of their
educational opportunities b. reason Of
some physical defect. 1t follows ioLf-
caiiS that some sensible and wisely
planned system OF compulsory medical
school inspection should be Instituted
ny lcgal enactment and generally
adopted. The plan has been tried in
nine OIL our states and in $50 American
Sities In greater or less degree In the
south II Is as yet almost untried."
The glory OF our age is that il
mas placed the child foremost in the
centre OF regard. not only of the man
OF letters or the man of art, hut of
me economist. the statesman and the
scientist. The grown folks may some
times be past saving, but through the
child the state is forever renewed and
made strong and vIrile The physi-
cal condition of the child during his
school life Is the prime consideration
Tor without health all else Is OF no
Reminding the doctors of the exalt
cd nature OF their calling, DR.. Alder
man said. The medical profession
stands In class all by itself among
human M, eallings. Its ancestry is as
old as pain and suffering. Its slow and
Dlundering but majestic progress
through the ages, since the Greek In
tellsct gave II birth. illustrates so i'm