The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-24

tee, will take an automobile trip around
the city at 10 o'clock this morning and
will visit all the points Of interest.
ness Of the hour. DIR. Rubner Will de-
liver his address at length to-day.
At the conclusion of DR.. Runners Re-
marks thirty-three representatives OF
foreign governments who had been seat
ed on the platform responded briefly TO
the Presidents address of welcome.
At 3 o'clock nearly 1000 delegates.
members. and other invited guests at
tended reception at the White House.
The affair was to have been a garden
party. but because OF the weather was
transferred to the East Room. where
President Taft shook hands with hun
dreds Of noted scientists from all parts
Of the world. Music was furnished by a
section Of the Marine Band.
Various Sections Meet.
While the reception in the East Room
OF the White House was still in progress.
the different sections of the congress met
in rooms assigned them at Continental
Memorial Hall. the Pan-American Union
Building. and the new National Museum,
to discuss papers by American and
foreign delegates the various ramifica-
Alols VI Niic subJcNto ~ 1ohSaue2 "hASh
the congress has met
An elaborate defense OF the use OF
benzoate of soda and sulphate of copper
in foods and an implied attack upon DR..
Harvey W. Wiley, who as chief of the
Bureau of Chemistry engaged in q
lengthy war upon these preservatives,
featured an address by DR.. John n. Long.
professor of chemistry at the Northwest
ern University Medical School, Chicago.
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ments which he had conducted and which
resembled closely those in which DR..
Wiley's famous poison squad" figured
several years ago. His experiments. DR..
Long said, fully indicated the verdict
of the Remsen board. about which CEN
tered DR.. Wiley's war.
A paper entitled. The Study o: Fa-
tigue and Its Application to Industrial
Workers. by Miss Josephin. Gu. mark,
Of New York, was read.
Many ordinary occupations" she said.
employing hundreds of thousands OF
workers, are in themselves inocuous. but
dangerous to health through the over
fatigue and exhaustion they engender."
Speaks on Child Hygiene.
"On the question of child hygiene" de-
clared DIR. A. jacob. of New York City,
in opening the sessions of the section
dealing with the hygiene of infancy and
childhood. depends the gravest ques-
ton OF sociology"
With this as a keynote. a dozen teach
cr3 and physicians discussed hygiene as
preventive for many OF the ills Of
childhood, natural and acquired.
DIR. Mary Sutton Macy. of the New
York School of Pedagogy, urged the ed
uCation of parents and prospective par
ents. as a step which must be taken be-
fore the full benefits of child hygiene
can ever be reached.
Open-air schools. not as the exception,
but as the rule. was the plea made by
DR.. S. Adolphus Knopf. of New York
City. The physician declared that If no
better open-air school can be obtained.
every window in a schoolroom should be
left open.
Taking a stand for the physical ex-
normal school candidate. DR.. Grace n.
kImball, of Poughkeepsie, n. Y, adj
dressed the meeting.
Diseases in Armies and Navies.
Problems Of coping with the social dis
eases among the enlisted men of the
armies and navies of the world were dis
cussed by leading medical experts of the
military services of the United States.
Germany. and Russia. Papers were read
by DR.. Won Vagedes. of Danzig. Ger
many: DR.. Zohart. who was surgeon gen.
eral of the Baltic fleet of the Russian
navy in the Russo-Japanese war; Col. L.
NJ. Maus. United States Army Medical
Corps; Medical Inspector George A.
Lung. U. S. N; Maj. D. C. Howard. L.
S. A, and DR.. G. A. Rost. of the German
Navy
1t was agreed that il would be useless
to attempt to eradicate the social evil
from the fighting service of the world.
Owing to the isolated life usually led by
both sailors and soldiers, 1t has not been
regarded as advisable from the military
point of view to attempt to prohibit such
Indulgence.
The greatest influence for the reduction
of the amount of these dSeases was
shown to be through educational and
moral measures, lectures by medical doc
tors, talks by ehaplains. recreative and
athletic features, by monthly physical in
srection, and personal prophylaxis. 1t
was brought up that with the present
rate of decreasing the extent of such
Affections the efficiency of the fighting
men of the world would be increased by
100 per cent within a period Of two
years.
Measures Against Plague.
A micro-organism has been discovered
b. DIR. Frederick G. Novy. of the Uni
versity of Michigan. which may prove Of
the greatest value in the wiping out of
brbonic plague, for this micro-organism
IL peculiarly pathogenic to rats and rats
only. DR.. Novy told Of his discovery at
the meeting of Section I at which the
president, Prof. Theobald Smith. Of the
Harvard Medical School. presided.
This micro-organism, which has not
been named as yet is fatal to rats In the
most minute quantity. II this discovery
Is used in what the Public Health Service
calls the "deratization" of a community.
II will have to be fed to them in their
food. according to DR.. Novy. for the rats
afflicted dc not communicate II very
readily to one another, though0fhey can
get the poison very easily in their food.
In marked contrast to the system for
public health administration outlined In