The Washington times., 1912-09-16
HYG|EN|C EXPERTS
. COMING TO CAPITAL
IN LARGE NUMBERS
Thousands of Exhibits Will
Be Open to Public
Tonight.

Hundreds OF physicians, sanitary and
hygienic experts. vital statisticians. mu-
nicipal health officers. and sociological
investigators will pour into the city to-
morrow and "wednesday to attend the
fortieth annual meeting OF the Ameri-
can Public Health Association. Many Of
them will also be here next week for
the fifteenth Congress on Hygiene and
'Demoeraphy. Two hundred German
scientists who will attend one or both
OF these gatherings landed in New York
today, and will come here after stop
in Philadelphia.
The convention of the American Pub
lie Health Association will have it's
real start wednesday afternoon, when
d. G. v. Chaplin, of Providence. r. l..
reads paper on 1.-The Money Value
OF Human Life" Nine other papers Will
be given at the meeting that afternoon
at the New willard.
At meeting the same evening at s
o'clock, DR.. Harvey w. Wiley will give
an address of welcome and responses
will be made by four men representing
this country, Canada. Mexico, and Gu
ba. The annual address of the presl-
dent Of the association. DR.. John N.
Committee on Arrangements.
Arrangements for the convention have
been made by DIR. Selskar M. Gum, OF
Boston, secretary of the association,
and local committee of which John
Dolph is chairman, and DIR. w. c.
Woodward vice chairman. The other
members are f. A. Fenning. w. F.
Guide, Harry C. C. Stiles. George f.
Schutt, Chaplin Brown, w. c. Galliher
DIR. c. A. Weaver, and DR.. s, r
Carpeies. .... .... .. .
First view of the thousands of ex.
hibits in the exposition of the Congress,
on Hygiene and Demography will b,
afforded the general public this evening
following short program beginning a
! o'clock. For three weeks this exposi
ton will continue at the Red Cros!
building, Seventeenth and b street!
northwest. 49,
An informal reception was conducted
at the building yesterday afternoon fo
newspaper men by DIR. ]. w. Scheres
chewsky, of the Public Health Servic,
and member of the executive commit
tee Of the congress.
Thirteen Groups of Exhibits.
Tonisht's visitors will see thirteen DIFF
ferent groups Of exhibits arranged 8,
as to provide a striking and concret
exposition Of fundamental hygieni
principles and their application, thes
different groups having the following
titles:
Vital statistics and demography
growth. nutrition and food, hygiene o
infancy and childhood, including pre-
vention Of infant mortality and schoo
hygiene, physiology and hygiene o
ho, fndtafrfal
pational hygiene, communicable dis
ease, State and municipal hygiene, car
Of the sick and life saving, hygiene U
Z traffic and transportation, military, ma
val and tropical hygiene, sex hygiene
Huntington Wilson, First Assistan
Secretary Of State and chairman of tn
organization committee of the congress
is expected to preside at this evening
opening meeting. Short addresses wi
be made by Surgeon General Blue an
.Dr. William H. Welch, president Of tn
Maryland State board of health, and b
Brig. Gen. G. H. Torney, surgeon ger
etal. U, s. A. II he arrives in the cit
this afternoon from California as eS
pected.
Municipal Comfort.
District visitors to the exposition wi
find that more has been done for the
comfort and health as respects mos
quitoes by the Sewer Department Of tn
District this summer than is general
known. The Sewer Department has ir
stalled among the exhibits a demon
stration Of its work in prevention {
mosquito breeding in catch basins. tt
hardly any layman has ever heard o
but the desirability Of which will NJ
be debated, Is included in the expos
tion. A model shows the methods {
! 10 t, t,.
city. including the sewer piping for a
ordinary house with its connection
the sewer and the "house stack" whic
effects the ventilation. A diagral
ming trap which prevents sewer vel
tilation. and which is now omitted
plumbing regulations here. Oth'
models, diagrams. charts. and phot,
Of the sewage plant built for the smailpc
hospital here, the general sewerage sy
tenn OF the city, the city's sewage di
posal system, and the treatment
sewers and sewer outlets in the parl
Of Washington.
Trinity Church as Landlord.
The exhibition of a great church
the role of landlord is one of the stril
ing features of the exposition. Trini
parish OF New York, once sharply >crit
cased for the conditions of Its real e
tate. has sent hene an exhibit consis
ing OF models of the dwellings OF whit
Trinity is landlord, and also models
typical rooms, back yards, and playir
centers. The exhibition shows tn
Trinity Church is now landlord over Z
houses containing accommodations 4
$40 families. That these families pref
Trinity as a landlord Is indicated ~ ol
OF the charts which shows hat mo
than 50 per cent of the flmflics ha'
occupied Trinity's houses for from fl
to fifty years.