The Washington times., 1912-09-19

navy was explained today to many per-
sons at the Red Cross building. The
army was represented by one OF its
cooking schools which was moved over
from Washington Barracks and put In
full operation With the fourteen ovens
OF tents the school comprises a plant
said to be extensive enough to feed
many thousands of men
Potato-Peeling Economy.
The navy exhibited kitchen and
crews mess table as they appear on a
warship. Among the many labor -sav-
ing devices shown in this kitchen is q
potato peeler which skins off the skin
of dozen and one-half bushels at u
time. The saving in time is only one
factor In actual potato saving the ra-
ito is as $50 to 1856 bushels under the
handspring way.
Tomorrow night there will be reports
of the executive council. election of
officers. and program which includes
inson, of New York, on "The Preven-
ton of Ill-borness," by Prof. w. T..
sidswick. of the Massa husetts Insti-
Lumsden, of the Public Health Serv-
ice. Professor Sidgwick is to discuss
the theme, Common Sense in Public
Health Work"
lOudN lHe ldJcIdlOGy section OIL tno
convention heard r. c. Longfellow, of
Toledo, Ohio, tell of the common house
roach as a carrier of disease; the vital
statistics section discussed mortality ta-
bles and questions of uniform birth and
death certificates; the municipal health
officers listened to addresses on disin-
fection; the sanitary engineers talked of
sewage disposal, publication of water
supplies, ventilation and street clean
ing.
Charity Workers Speak.
The sociological section had a pro-
gram with addresses on it by Homer
Folks secretary of the State Charities
Aid Association of New York, and by
DR.. Otto P. Grier, superintendent of
Charities and Corrections, of Cincin-
natl.
Vigorous denunciation of modern in
dustrial conditions came from DR..
Joseph S. Neff. of Philadelphia. chair
man of the health officers section.
We know that many preventable
deaths are iue to diseases contracted
on account of lowered vital resistaaGe
through occupation" said DR.. Neff: TO
the evil of employment of immature
children to satlate the greed for wealth:
to improper care of female operators;
to working in insanitary buildings; in
addition to the hazardous occupations.
improper housing conditions, and to al
cholism and poverty, all tending TO
make a sub-normal people and a high
death rate"
Duty of City Officers.
Municipal health officers must ally
themselves with social associations
working along the same lines to pro-
tect women and children in their en-
ployment, according to Dr. Neff--must
work in the Improvement of general
housing conditions in the home, as we'll
as in the mill and factory.
We confine ourselves too strictly to
the medical side of municipal health
work" he said. IF We are to keep
abreast OF the times. we must realize
the full Importance that social service,
eugenics and euthenics play in lessen
ing the death rate
N. Harvey Wiley, in an address last
night attacked local government and
health conditions hem, payiIs p"vticu-
Lar attention to Congress f,t failure to
appropriate money for Health Depart
Inent work. DR.. Wiley said ne wished
that families of members OF Congress
might contract preventative diseases
here and all others eScapc.E r. that
happened he thought there might lie an