Evening star., 1911-06-10
THE WORLD IS DOING
United States Not Among tho Coun-
tries Represented.
THE BEST WAYS OF LIVING
Comparative Values Of Different
Foods Displayed - Workmen's
Insurance System Explained.
'orsign Correspondence Of The star.

BERLIN, May %, 1911.
The health exhibition at Dresden prom
ises to be OF extraordinary value and i'm
portance. Throughout the exhibition ed
ucational principles have been made to
prevail. and, Of course, the foreign Sec
tions are directed to showing what for
eign countries are doing. The United
States. however, Is not represented.
great deal Of space has been given to
the illustration Of the system OF work
mems insurance in Germany. Tables and
diagrams show the whole development of
state insurance since 1885, and Of vol
untary insurance. as we'll as the organ
izations In particular trades and places.
There are elaborate models of sanatoria,
workmen's dwellings and other products
Of the insurance system. The imperial
insurance office In Berlin has, for the pur-
Turin exhibition, prepored great dis
play OF statistical and other material COW
erfng the whole field In its immense ex-
perience.
Frankness In the Exhibits.
From Insurance tho spectator passes to
disease. All that Is known Of the sources
and methods Of injection is explained ex-
haustively with . great wealth Of bac-
THEOLOGICAL detail. There Is q special Sec
tion OF great interest for Immunity and
protective incubation" arranged by DR..
Ehrlich and DIR. Won Wassermann. and
tho greatest living authorities have dealt
specially with tuberculosis, cancer and
kindred diseases. and the plague. 1t is
noteworthy here. as indeed throughout
the exhibition. that . highly modern"
ly that wax casts of the most repellent
kind abound, but every public aspect of
disease Is treated with absolute openness.
Modern Germany seems to have arrived
already at the final conclusion that in
such matters the only safe principles are
statistical accuracy and fullest publicity.
A great deal of light Is thrown on the
care OF the teeth in Germany, with ref
erence especially to the school clinics
which are springing up all over Germany.
care for the young" with an extraor-
dinarily interesting department illus
trating the methods and successes Of the
modern institutions for the prevention Of
infant mortality. AS is well known, Ger
many has made great progress in this
work In recent years, and the success
achieved is the principal set-off to the
constant fall in the birth rate. Every as
pect OF baby-tending and infantile pa
thology Is here laid bare, with luminous
of the greater mortality
among bottle-fed infants and the precise
effects Of irregular nutrition and insani
tAry surroundings.
The Popular Section.
The greatest attraction Of the exhibl-
tion Is a popular" section, In which the
whole mechanism OF the human frame is
displayed by countless models and photo
graphs. and all that is good and bad for
man as we'll as much that is neither good
nor bad Is illustrated In every conceiv
able way. Whether from a physiological
or pedagogic point Of view. the contents
Of this enormous building are wonder
fully interesting and stimulating. The
principles OF sound living are inculcated
both Systematically and exhaustively.
and no less effectively the ravages Of cor
sets upon both the outside and the in
side OF the female body-and every appli-
cation of the health-giving properties of
air and sun and water Is displayed, to-
gether with an exhaustive examination of
food va1ues and healthy housing. The ex-
hibition Is intended to show the public
how to get more health for its money.
and SO foodstuffs and other things are
examined from the point of view of the
amount of nutritive and
other benefits that may be purchased.
China and Japan are prominent exhibit
ors: Russia and France have particularly
imposing and characteristic buildings;
Brazil, Austria, Switzerland. Spain. Hun
gary and the city of Amsterdam are Of
ficially represented. The unofficial Eng
lish section. which is being organized by
a committee under the presidency of the
lord mayor Of London, will deal es-
disease. the combating Of tuberculosis.
hospital and preventive work. town and
house planning and industrial poisonings
and injuries