Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-05-05
President Taft Guest Of
Honor al Philadelphia.
Reception Given Thursday Night
by The Medical Club.
Suggestion Of NATL Department Of
Health Well Received.

l,llilduciJtId, hd% 4t--IttStuCHt tfLI
was the guest OF honor at q reception
given here tonight by the Medical CLUB
OF philadelphia. The President was
hailed as the Chief Executive who had
Gone tho most for the advancement Of
medical science and his recommended
ton that Il national department OF
health be created by Congress was
dwelt upon approvingly by DR. w l..
Rodnan, who presided.
President Taft referred in his ad-
dress 10 the efficiency of tn madical
corps OF til army and point out that in
tie camp at San Antonio. where ls.0b9
troops are qnartered only one ease
Of typhoid fever had appeared. He
compared this to the dreadful scourRe
during TIE Spanish American War,
when he SAID 30 per cent became in
fectcd within eight weeks Of The date
of mobilization.
The President said that much mon
~ was expended and many lives we're
sacrificed in the SPanish-A ueriCaa
War, but that they are as nothing
compared with the benefits to human
IT, which nave accrued from the dis
coyeries made during that period.
Surgeon General George Toruey OF
the army spoke on Sanitary Progress
in the FCrt ami Filed: and Surgeon
General Charles i. stokes Of the navy.
spoke on The Hospital snip ard It's
MISSION Of Mercy.
The President praised the doctors OF
the United safes army and doctors III
general fUr the efficiency they have
displayed in eanaHering disease in
Cuba, in the Philippines and in tho
Panama canal ZGne He found juSti-
heation for the war with Spain in the
stamping out ~ yellow. fever in cuba
that threatened death 10 "Our south
ern cities. He reviewed the work OF
the army surgeons in combating yell
low jack in cuba and Panama and in
lowering the death rate from cholera
hobonic plague, beri- berl ard other
diseases III The Philippines.
In conclusion the President said:
And now we have q division of 49,
o90 n%H in Texas and California They
nave been there Tor two months living
under canvas and in country soaked
With lain and deep with profanity
provoking mud. Rut So effective have
methods adopted u reduce sickness
that tire percentage Il sicl: men Is less
than it was in the posts from which
those men We're mohilized. need not
recall the dreadful record of sickness
from typhoid fever ii the camps at
Chickamauga and other camps during
the Spanish American war.
The price of typhoid cases vas so
hard that it is hard 10 believe. 0fI
10000 men the,e were 2D.0i0 cases
with :, case mortality Of per cent
Of tile volunteer regiment mobili@edI
during the Spauisn-AfAeri an War 10
per cent. became infected with ty-
ptoid fever within eight weeks from
the date of mobilization. Today tNol
months after m3b!liza ton with Ia,
modern health regulations and by tho
use of vaccination against typnaia
me- one case of typhoid fever has ap-
peared m the entire force exceot ;itar
Of oae teamster ~ho WAS not vaccin-
atei.
We expended many lives and much
money in the Spanish Wa, and in the
discharge of the responsibilities that
have followed that war But they
arc as nothing compared with the
benefits tn the human race that have
already accrued and will continue to
accrue from the discoveries made an
der the conditions and necessities
which the eNigencies oe that war and
the governmental burdens following il
presented
d., his way over from Washington.
TIE President talked reciprocity with
Chairman Penrose of the Senate com
mittee "u finance. Senator Penros,
told the Pr, sident that hearings would
be held by his committee vntil May
IL, so that the constituents of West
err senators might be heard The
bia, the senator thought would pass
the Senate without amendment
fhiiadeiphla. May 5.-President Taft de-
parted for Washington al II % this morn
ing over the Pennsylvania Railroad.