Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-07
Plans for Permanent Health
Exhibit in Washington.
SEVERAL SCHEMES IN VIEW
One Includes Building by Govern.
ment and Display by States.
COURSE OF FREE LECTURES
Material on View During Hygienic
Congress Being Removed From
Red Cross Building.

Plans looking toward the establish
ment in Washington of permanent
national health exhibit, which have been
discussed in the form of suggestions
since the opening of the big exhibition
held in conjunction with the Inter-
national Congress on Hygiene and Demog-
raphy, are taking more definite form. and
DIR. j. W. Schereschewsky. director Of
the exhibit, as well as others connected
with 1t. are considering several ideas for
the establishment of such show.
The latest suggestion, and the one that
meets with most favor among the hygien-
lists Of Washington, is that the govern
ment provide a permanent building, adj
vantageously located, for housing an ex-
hibit to be made by the different states
Of the Union. Under this plan each state
would have a section devoted to dis
play of what the state was doing in the
way of safeguarding the health of its
residents. To each state would be as
signed one week in each year, when lee
turers would give free illustrated talks on
health conditions and hygienic measures
adopted and in force in the state.
Forty-Eight Weeks of Lectures.
This would give a program of forty
eight weeks of lectures during the year.
The remaining four weeks OF the fifty
two, 1t has been suggested, might be
given to national health affairs. with,
perhaps, additional lectures by foreign
health authorities brought to the United
States to tell what other countries are
doing along the lines Of sanitation and
hygiene.
Active steps will be taken at once, it
is stated, to procure the adoption of this
or some other popular and comprehensive
plan for national hygiene exhibition, to
be open to the public every day in the
year. and 1t is hoped that a bill provid-
ing for such an exhibit and the necessary
funds with which to conduct it may be
passed at the next session of Congress.
Work of taking down and packing the
exhibits that for the past three weeks
have been housed in the Red Cross build
ing at 18th and B streets northwest has
proceeded rapidly since the closing Of the
exhibition last Saturday night, and by
this evening practically all the exhibits
will have been taken down and boxed
for shipment Many of the big packing
cases were started on their way yester-
day and many more were hauled away
from the building on the Monument
grounds during the day The public was
not admitted to the building during the
dismantling OF the hygiene exhibit, and
none OF the exhibits was sold or dis
posed of.
Value of the Exhibit.
DIR. Schereschewsky and others asso-
ciated with him in charge of the big ex-
hibition declare the value of the exhibit
TO the Washington public, as well as to
the people Of the country at large, can
not be estimated in dollars, and are
united in the statement that incalcdlable
good, In the way Of public education on
practically all lines Of general health and
hygiene, has been accomplished during
the three weeks of the exhibition. A
total Of close to $4,000 persons, it Is esti-
mated. visited the exhibition since 1t
was opened.