Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-25
HYGIENE THE TOPIC
international Congress Meets
in September.
FIRST GATHERING HERE
Elaborate Exhibition on Health"
Will Be Feature.
TO CONSIST OF NINE SECTIONS
Twenty-Five Foreign Countries Will
Send Delegates-OHcers
of Convention.
FIRST GATHERING HERE
TO CONSIST OF NINE SECTIONS

For the first time in the sixty years of
its existence. since it. was called into
being in 1852. to meet the great
pandemic of cholera in Europe. the In
Demography will hold it's sessions in
this country. at the capital. in direct
response to the invitation of the Presi-
dent and the Congress of the United
States. The meetings will be held in
Washington September 232S. In con-
nection with the congress there will be
one of the most elaborate exhibitions
on health" ever assembled. The exhibit
will be opened the second week in Sep
TENDER and will continue three weeks.
Even though the congress has behind
it the history of giving formal indorse-
ment to such epoch making discoveries
as the Pasteur treatment for rabies
and the antitoXin treatment for diphtheria
and giving to the world the knowledge
which enabled medical practitioners
everywhere the take advantage of these
discoveries, it is anticipated that the
fifteenth congress. in September. will
mark d greater step in the advance
ment of health than has any previous
congress.
Although fourteen other congresses
have been held in the various capitals
of Europe. this will be the first time
that the United States will have any
thing like appropriate representation.
The governors of forty-three states al
ready have appointed committees of rep
resentative physicians. health officers
and authorities on hygiene to take part
in the discussions and to arrange state
exhibits in the general exhibition. The
usual American representation at pre-
vious congresses has been from five to
ten delegates, whereas at the coming
meeting delegates from every city and
town in the country are expected. to
the number of between six and seven
thousand.
twenty-five foreign countries, too.
have signified their intention of being
represented at the congress and the
exhibition. Last week hotel accommoda-
tons were arranged for delegation or
900 from Germany alone.
May Announce Discoveries.
Whatever may be the announcements
of medical discoveries at the forthcom-
ing congress, which may parallel the
Won Behring announcement of d-phtheria
anti-toxin in 1898 and the pasteur anti
rabic treatment in 1889, it is intended
that the fifteenth International Con-
gress on Hygiene and Demography
shall bring about Standardization OF
iNSltnlC Iltl0ouS throughout TIC tHitSu
States and the world This purpose
is we'll outlined in the formal an
nouncement of the exhibition on health
which the Department of State has
lone of the pressing needs Of the times
is the standardization of hygientc
methods and the coordination and the
correlation of the work of federal,
state. municipal and private health
agencies"
The congress will be divided into
nine sections. each of which will have
its own program. and the work pro-
posed for the various sections will be
announced from time to time as 1T is
determined. The exhibition will be held
in a specially constructed building of
vast area now being erected in Poto-
mac Park.
The work of the congress is of spe-
cial importance to the government and
John S. Fulton, secretary general Of
bring together about 5000 of the most
distinguished specialists. and other
thousands will be attracted by the ex-
hibition. Problems of the greatest i'm
portance to the United States will be
discussed in the, sections and illustrat-
ed in the exhibition, such as the cure
and prevention of tropical diseases, the
inspection of animals and meat prod
organization for the preservation Of
public health.
Taft to Open Meeting.
President Taft, honorary president of
the congress, will open the convention
and its deliberations will be conducted
under the direction of the following Of
ficers: President, Henry P. Walcott, NJ
D., president of the state board of health
of Massachusetts, Boston; chairman Of
the committee on organization, Hunting
ton Wilson, assistant secretary of state;
secretary general, John S. Fulton, NJ. D.,
professor University of Maryland; direc-
tor of the exhibition, j. w. Schereschew-
sky, NJ. d., passed assistant surgeon.
United States public health and marine
hospital service; secretary of the finance
committee, II. Writ Steele, Senate Annex,
Washington. d. C; treasurer. Charles j.
Trust Company, Washington; executive
committee. William II. WEIGH. Nj. D.. LII.
D.. chairman. professor of pathology,
Johns Hopkins University, president of
the state board of health of Maryland;
Prof Walter f. Wilcox, vice chairman,
professor of economies and statistics,
Cornell University; Henry G. Boyer. NJ
Herman NJ. Biggs. NJ. D., chief medical
officer, New York city department of
health; John S. Billings. NJ. D., LII. D.,
director New York Library; Edward Il.
Devine. LII D.. general director, New York
Charity Organization Society; Surgeon
General Rupert Blue, United States public
health and marine hospital service; +.
Dana Durand, director of the United
States census bureau: Lieut.. Col. Walter
d. McGaw. United States Army. librarian,
surgeon generals library; Dr. John S.
Fulton and Dr. J. w. Schereschewsky.