Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-26


selves.
Training schools. he said, should he es-
tabliShcd where young men who desire
10 make Tailroading their life work may
be trained and made as efficient as are
the young men who are trained at West
Point for careers in the army. y care
fully trained and thoroughly competent
body of railway employees. the speaker
declared. would do more 10 bring about Il
decrease in the number of accidents and
fatalities in railroad travel than all the
laws that have been passed since rail-
reading became Il business
Many Other Papers.
other papers presented at the session
Nere: Organized Relief by DIR. S. L.
Barr of Baltimore. superintendent OF
tho relief department of the Baltimore
and ohio railway; The Accident Prob
lens Of the Railroads. by DR. Francis
J. Patterson chief surgeon of the
Philadelphia and Western railroad: an
outline OF the work of German and
other European railways to restrict the
us OF alcohol among their employees,
by Or. Gave of Stettin. Germany,
similar outline of work in the United
States. by Prof. Reid Hunt OF the
United States public health service,
and papers on the protection OF pas
svngers and the hygiene OF food ana
water supplies of the travelling pub
lie by Or H. VI. Bracken, executive
officer of the state board of health of
Minnesota: DR.. Arthur NJ. Hume, chief
surgeon of the Ann Arbor railroad and
steamship lines, OWaSsc, Mich, and Dr.
3 j. Crumbine. secretary OF the state.
board of health OF Kansas.
The general topic for discussion at TINS
morning joint session OF sections i ana
V. ..PoliomyeIitis. Etiology and Mode of
Transmission" would probably mean
very little TO the layman However, po-
liomyelitis Is the name the men or sell
ence have given to the disease popularity
known as infantile paralysis. The joint
session was devoted to discussions of the
disease and the manner in which it is
transmitted. as Wei as methods OF guard
ing against II.
The half-dozen or more papers read dis
closed a hopeless divergence of opinion
among the scientists. some Of WON
claimed the disease Is transmitted by
means of the bites o. bloodsuchinS IN
sects, While others denied that this is
true.
Some of. the speakers declared the dis
ease is so infectious that each case should
be isolated carefully as If 1T We're
diphtheria while others pointed out that
innumerable cases are on record where
the disease attacked one member of a
large family without in any way affecting
others in the same family.
Some Noted Speakers.
The speakers included DR. Simon: F'iex-
ner of the Rockefeller Institute, New
York: Prof. DR.. Alfred Peterson of the
national medical corps of Sweden, DR..
Mark w. Richardson. secretary of the
state board OF health of Massachusetts;
DR. Karl Landsteiner of the University of
Vienna NJ Levadiu of France. Prof
DR. Paul ROmer Of Hamburg, Germany
and others During the session cable
gram was delivered TO Prof. Peterson
from the Pasteur Institute of Paris, ask
ing him TO take part In the elaborate re-
search work into the causes of 1nfantlle
paralysis for which the French govern
ment has recently appropriated several
thousand dollars.
practical Dietetics'' was the general
topic at this mornings session of sec
ton II. on dietetic hygiene, the four pa
pers presented and the discussions fol-
lowing all having TO do with a practical
phase OF the subject.
DR.. 6. T. l-anSworthy, expert in charge
OF nutrition Investigations in the Depart
ment of Agriculture, told of experiments
that have been made to determine the
cost and nuIritive value Of foods, both in
this country and abroad.
lie traced the analogy between the
money COS; Of various foods and their
food values. and showed the amazing
ignorance Of many American families,
where children Of ten years or younger
were permitted To do the family market
ing
In such families, said Or. Lang
worthy 1t is wonder that the full
food value of the housekeeping money is
rot obtained. when children buy fancy
butter at ~ cents "a pound. or. far worse.
buy tomatoes III the winter at 40 or 80
cents a pound
Foods. and Weight.
DR.. Carl Won Ncorden. professor OF inter
nal medicine and director OF the Imperial
Medical Clinic OF Vienna. read a paper
fr, u Ia
10 Disease" incidentally showing how
the oyerfat man can safely reduce his
weight by modifying his diet. and how
the man who is too thin can build up his
weight by a jucicious selection of foods.
Or. Axel Hoist. professor OF hygiene at
the University OF Chr4stLana, Norway, dis
cilssed diet IN Relation TO Disease,
Chiefly In Relation to Some Forms of
Partial Underfeedins, as Beriberi and
Scuryy.
Dr. Warren Coleman OF Cornell Uni
versity Medical College read techni-
cal paper on Diet and Metabolism In
Fevers." a paper on The influence of
frttiye Value" by Prof Dr. Max Rub
uer. was on the morning program, but
was not read. This was practically
the same paper as that read at the
o'clock plenary session last Tuesday
afternoon.
The morning session OF section " on
the hygiene OF occupations was consider
ably contracted by reason of the failure
IF several authors of papers to appear.
Prof DR.. l. CarozA of Milan. Italy. was
scheduled for two papers, but was unable
10 attend the congress, md his papers
were not read. NJ. Henri Many, director
Of the Association OF the InduStrialists Of
France for the Prevention of Industrial
Accidents and NJ Paul Weiss, minister
Of public works of Paris, also failed to
appear, thsir papers being omitted
Examination of Employees.
Occupational Diseases and Physical
Examination of Workers'' was the title
OF a paper read by DIR. George NJ. Price
81 the New York state factory investi-
eating commission, in which DR. Price
outlined the results OF Investigations made
IN New York factories on the special dis
eases affecting workers in certain indus
tries and the results obtained in raising
the efficiency of the workers by regular
physical examinations.
Dr. Theodore Il. Sachs OF Chicago one
~ Americas foremost authorities on tu-
herculOsiS, discussed Examination of
EMPLOYEES for tuberculosis" saving that