The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-03-29
TO DISCUSS HEALTH PROBLEMS
Fifteenth international Congress on
Hygiene to Meet in Washington


Fifteenth international Congress on
Hygiene to Meet In Washington
Washington, March 24.-For the
first time in the sixty years of its
existence since il was called into be-
ing in 1852 to meet the great pan
demic of cholera in Europe, the Inter
national congress on Hygiene and
Demography will hold its sessions in
this country in direct response to the
invitation of the president and the
congress of the United States. The
meetings will be held in Washington
September 1928. In connection with
the congress there will be one of the
most elaborate exhibitions on
health" ever assembled. The exhibit
WILDE opened in the second week in
September and will last for three
weeks.
Although fourteen olher 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
already have appointed committees
OF representative physicians, health
officers and authorities on hygiene to
take part in the discussions in the
congress and TO arrange state exhibits
in the general exhibition. The usual
American representation at previous
congresses has been from five to ten
delegates, whereas at the coming
meeting delegates from every city and
many towns in the country are eX-
, pected 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 accom-
modations were arranged for dele
| CATION of 300 from Germany alone
Whatever may be the announce
ments of medical discoveries at the
! forthcoming congress, which may par
allel the Won Behring announcement
of diphtheria antitoxin in 1893 and
| the Pasteur anti-rabic treatment in
! 1889, it is intended that the Fifteenth
! International congress on hygiene
and demography shall bring about a
Standardization of hygienic methods
throughout the United States and the
world. This purpose is well outlined
| in the formal announcement OF the
exhibition on health which the De-
partment Of state has just issued and
which specifies that zone of the press.
| ing needs OF the times is the stand
ardization OF hygienic methods and
the coordination and the correlation
OF the work of Federal, State, munic.
ipal 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
il is determined. The exhibition will
be held in a specially constructed
building of large area now being
erected in Potomac Park.
The work of the congress is of
special importance to the government
and citizens of the United States, 4"
said DR.. John S. Fulton secretary
general of the organization. THE
congress will bring together about g.
600 of the most distinguished special
lists and other thousands will be at.
tracted by the exhibition Problems
of the greatest importance in the
United States will he discussed in
the sections and illustrated in the
exhibition such as the cure and pre-
yentlon Of tropical diseases, the in
spection Of animals and meat prod
ucts and federal state and municipal
organization for the preservation OF
public health"
President Taft, honorary presi-
dent OF the congress, will open the
convention