Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-07
KISS BABY !.
IF YOU HAVE COLD
Warning Is Given by Doctor al
Atlantic City Con-
vention.

ATLANTIC CITY, June 7.-"Don KISS
the babies If you have a cold" is the
warning DR.. Thomas s. Southwortn' %
New York. delivered to the physicians az
tending the sessions OF the American
Medical Association convention here yes
terday.
tIf the parent or a member OF ths
household has a cold The baby should %
kept In a room apart and not even az
lowed to enter A room with the suherer'
let alone being touched or caressed ~
the victim of a cold, = he said.
Speaking before a section of the Amer
lean Medical Association, DR.. southwortn
declared that young babies run not ohi'
the ordinary dangers of colds deveiopihs
into pneumonia or tubercular affections
but that their growth is interrupted anu
that they lose instead of gaining weight
when colds are prevalent he SAID
,tbe baby should not ride In trains, othe..
public conveyances or be taken INV
crowded shops. Children with even siishs
| colds should be excluded from primary
schools"
DIR. southworth declares that he has
stopped asking how the baby took colu,
but now asks who else in the housenoin
has a cold. Colds, he added, almost al.
ways attack every grown member OF q
household. but tile children always eaten,
them If they are exposed to Infection.
DR.. Richard Cole Newton, consuiii's
physician to the Mountainside Hospital
| Montciair, presented a paper on a
| short Discussion of Some of the Recent
Hypienic and Economic Improvements In
Dairying.' ,
DIR. Newton said that while 1t has been
generally admitted that no milk can be
safely recommended for general use that
is not at least as good as 'eertihed
milk, the cost of producing milk of this
grade has been so high that the product
has been beyond the means of poo pei
sons. Many efforts to produce and place
upon the market milk which shall be at
clean and safe as certified milk at a
moderate price have proved unavail-
ing until very recently.
DR.. Newton said that while it has been
milk produced under almost absolutely
perfect conditions cannot be guaranteed
not to convey disease. at least occa-
\ SlOnahN, uHieSb IL Shdh nave pNSH -
teurized. The paper contained a short
account of how all these things have
been effected and a safe and clean milk
put on the market to be sold at a profit
iof ten cents a quart.
Paterson Man an Officer.
DR.. John A. Witherspoon, of Nash
vile. Tenn. was elected president of
the American Medical Association by
the house of delegates, which locke
after the business of the organization.
DR.. Philander Harris. of Paterson. \,
J., was named for first vice-president.
| DR.. John L. Heffron, of Syracuse, Sec
ond vice president. and DR.. H. NJ. Nc
liClenahan. of Omaha. Neb.. third vice
president; fourth yice-president, Dr.
Walt p. Conaway. tiantic City; sec.
rotary, Dr.. Alexander II. Craig, Chicagoi
treasurer, DIR. William Allen pusey, Chi
cago; trustees, DR.. M. l.. Harris, Chi
cago: DR.. C. A. Daugherty, South Bend
DIR. w. T. Councilman, Boston; MEM
bers of the judiciary council, DIR. George
| w. Guthrie, .Wilkesbarre, Pa; member
of council on health and public instruc-
ton. DIR. Walter B. Canon, Boston;
members of council on medical educa-
ton, DR.. James w. Holland, Philadei-
phia; DIR. w. d. Haggard, Nashville,
Tenn.