The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-06-20
FIGHTERS AGAINST
THE WHITE PLAGUE
Open Convention at Denver
the Mecca for American
Victims of Disease.
(NationaI News Association)

Mecca of consumptives for the last
years, is for the first time
in its history the scene of a meeting
of tuberculous fighters from all parts
of the United States, the National
Association for the Study and Pre-
vention of tuberculosis today open
ing two day convention.
The meeting of the association is in
four sections: the advisory council.
consisting of secretaries of anti-tuber-
cu;osis societies. health officers, SUI.
perintendents of institutions, and 9th
ers; the pathological section, devoted
TO the study of pathological questions
in relation to tuberculosis; the clint
cal section, given over to the treat
ment of the disease and allied sub
jects; and the sociological, which will
discuss the social question in rela-
ton to tuberculosis. and particularly
how the disease may be prevented.
Subjects for Groups.
DR.. William Charles White, medical
director of the tuberculosis League of
Pittsburg, is chairman OF the advisory
council. The general subject to be
discussed by this group is, Official
Responsibility in the tuberculosis
Problem" Hon. Homer Folks of New
York, secretary of the State Charl-
tees Aid association, and former COM
missioner of Charities in New York
city, will discuss the subject from the
point of view of the state. DIR. Hoyt
E. Dearholt of Milwaukee, executive
secretary of the Wisconsin Anti-Tu-
berculosis association, will lead the
discussion from the side OF the
county. DR.. Clyde F. Ford, health Of
ficer of Cleveland, will show the city,
responsibility in the matter.
Alexander NJ. Wilson, sociological
director of the Henry Phipps insti-
tute of the University of Pennsyl-
vania, is chairman of the sociological
section, and Eugene T. LEES. secre-
tary of the Associated Charities OF
Minneapolis. is secretary. This Sec
ton, probably the most popular one in
the convention, will hold three ses-
sions. At the first section, the topic
for discussion will be THE Child and
the School," on which papers will be
read by Leonard p. Ayres, associate
director of the department OF Child
Hygiene of the Russell Sage Founda-
ton, DIR. c. w. McMichael of Chica,
go, DIR. w. A. Evans, commissioner OF
the health of Chicago. Miss Helen M
Wixon. superintendent of public in
structiOn of the state of Colorado, and
DR.. John B. Halves, second secretary
of the board of trustees of the Massa
chusetts hospitals for consumptives.
The second session of the sociology
cal section will be opened with a
paper on the topic, Relief of Famll
les in which there is tuberculosis,
by Fl. Writ Steele, executive secretary
of the Maryland association for the
prevention and Relief of Tuberculosis
which will be discussed by Frank E
Wing, superintendent of nurses of the
Chicago Municipal Sanitarium. Miss
Edna L. Foley, superintendent OF
nurses of the Chicago municipal San
itarium will speak on 1.-The Tubercu
losis Nurse Edward F. McSweeney
chairman of the Boston Consumptives
Hospital department, will read pa
per on Tuberculosis as a Factor in
the Increased Cost of Living and
Drs. Edwin A. Locke ond Cleveland
Floyd of Boston will present the re
suits of a study of five hundred male
consumptives with reference to eco
nomic losses to the community.
The general topic for discussion al
the third session of the sociological
sections will be THE Problem OF Rur
al Communities with Small Towns,
with papers by DR.. Hoyt E. Dearholt
executive secretary of the Wisconsin
Anti-Tuberculosis association, Georgt
J. Setback, assistant secretary of the
tuberculosis committee of the State
Charities Aid association, DR.. George
H. Pogue of Greeley, Colo, and othel
prominent anti-tuberculosis workers.
DR.. William Opheuls of San Fran
cisco, is chairman of the pathological
section, and DR.. w. L. Moss, of Bos
tone, secretary. Papers will be reat
in this session by DR.. Edward r. Bald
win of Saranac Lake, n. Y, DR.. NJ. P
Ravenel, of Madison, Wis, DR.. Geralt
B. Webb and c: Burton Gilbert of Co.
orado Springs; Drs. Henry P. Chad
wick and Roy Morgan Of Westfield
Mass. and DR.. William Opheuls o
San Francisco.
In the clinical section, of which DR.
Charles Lyman Greene of st. Paul, il
chairman, papers will be read by Drs
Edwin A. Locke and Timothy J. Muir
ply of Boston; DR.. A. NJ. Forster o
Colorado Springs; DR.. Lawson Brow
of Saranac Lake, n. Y, DR.. Frederick
Tice of Chicago, DR.. Sherman G. Bon
ney of Denver, DR.. William Porter o
| ST. Louis, Drs. E. S. Bullock and LIE
Roy S. Peters of Silver City. n. Mex
Dr. John Ritter of Chicago, DR.. Rus
sell T. Petit of Ottowa, H.. and Dr.
Meyer Solis-Cohen of Philadelphia.
On June 81 a meeting of the South
| western Conference of Tuberculosi
will be held under the chairmanshi
/ of DR.. William NJ. Brumby of San An
tonic