The Washington times., 1912-09-17
WILL SHOW WAYS
TO P!ROLONG AND
SAVE HUMAN LIFE.
Health Economics Is Main
Subject Discussed at Two.
Conventions.

How great an economic waste there
is annually in the United States in
needless loss OF life; how human life
may be prolonged: how insanity may
be prevented, and the general progress
Of health work in America, will be de-
seribed tomorrow at the New Willard at
the first days session of the American
Public Health Association, meeting in
it's fortieth annual convention. .
This afternoon health topics also were
discussed. At the Red Cross building at
Seventeenth and 3 streets northwest,
three short lectures were given In con-
nection with the exposition arranged for
the fifteenth annual congress on hy-
here. next week. More lectures will be
given in exposition Of the exhibits to-
night and from this afternoon until
three weeks hence there will scarcely
health topic will not be under discus
sion at one of the conventions.
$ Mexican Delegates Here. ..
Two of Mexicos and one of Cuba 8
delegates to the convention arrived to-
day. The men from Mexico City are
DR.. Eduardo Liciaga, president of the
superior board of health Of Mexico, and
DR.. j. Il. Monjara, secretary of the
come DR.. A. G. Dominguez, one of the
health officers of the port of Havana.
DR.. Liciaga will be the speaker in be-
half of Mexico making response to Dr.
Wiley's address of welcome tomorrow
evening at the New Willard. The two
Mexicans, who are staying at the
tsry % Of the association, Prof, seiskar
NJ. Gum, of Boston. who has been here
for some days arranging for the con-
vention.
lectures at the Red Cross building this
afternoon. The first Of the addresses
will be given by John Curtiss, vino VIII
tell of "The Engineerig Work of tae
As"ingto9 FiltTation Plant xsh1sr HE WIZ ~
the Bureau Of Chemistry, who Will dis.
, cuss THE Dangers Of Patent Medicine"
The third lecture Is to be given by Miss
Mary Campbell on The Deficiency OF
This evening at o'clock DR.. Allan
Mclaughlin will talk on The Fight
Against Asiatic Cholera In the Philip
pines" and he will be followed by pr
on 1.-The National Mental Hygiene Cam
paign.''
, American Public Health Association
viii call that body to order at the Will
lard at a. m. tomorrow, and after
reading the minutes Of the last meet.
ing, sectional work will occupy the rest
! of the morning. In the afternoon and
evening there will be general meetings
Tomorrow night the formal welcome e
the visitors will be extended by d:
Harvey w. Wiley, following invocation
by the Rev. James Shera Montgomery.
An Interesting Program.
The initial general program of the
association will begin with what prom
ises to be one Of the most interesting
papers of the meeting. This will be the
address bv Dr. c. V. Chaplin. superin
tendent of health, Providence, r. l.. or
1.-The Money Value of Human Life" ii.
will be followed by Dr. Oscar Bowling
president of the Louisiana State BoarC
Of Health. on Methods in Educationa
Hygiene" DR.. Dowling comes from Q
city where the residents were educated
into the obliteration OF yellow fever BY
teaching them to destroy mosquitoes.
Other papers of the afternoon are a
What State Control over stream
Has Done in Pennsylvania In Sever
Years. by Dr.. Samuel Dixon, commits
sioner' department of health, Harris
brug, Pa.
Need for General Health Protectiv,
Surveys and Programs" by N. M. Bak
er, editor of the Engineering News.
The Prolongation Of Human Life,
troit.
Health Work Progress in America.
by DR.. Francis E. Fronozak, health
commissioner Of Buffalo.
The Trend of Medico-Social Effor