Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-26
THE ACTIVITY OF
|SSHOWN|N
HEALTH PICS
Experts From Numerous
Countries are Scheduled
for Important Talks Be-
fore Hygiene Congress.
WOULD MAKE GROOM
HAVE CERTIFICATE

New York Physician Makes
Plea for More Healthy
Marriages; Rabies OF
Dogs Referred to.
Washington, D.. c., Sept. 25- The
activities Of various agencies In dis
seminating infectious diseases and the
relative importance of flies, shell fish
and other carriers of bacilli in trans.
ferring typhoid fever, diphtheria, chol-
era and influenza were among the
topics for discussion on the program
OF today's session of the fifteenth In
ternational Congress of Hygiene and
Demography meeting here. Experts
from Germany, France, England and
the United States were scheduled to
\ talk.
Among those to speak we're DR.. l..
o. Howard, chief of the United States
bureau of entomology and probably
\ the greatest authority in this country
on the fly as a carrier of disease;
Prof H. Conradi Of the University Of
Halle, Germany: DR.. j. c. C. Leding-
ham, Lester Institute, London; Prof.
q. s. Nutall, Cambridge University,
England; DR.. j. Jochmann, Berlin;
Prof. Meanil, Pasteur Institute, Paris;
Dr.. w. L. Moss, Johns Hopkins uni
versity: DR. Samuel T. Darling, An
con, Panama. and DR.. Herbert D.
Pease, New York. :. s,3s
Infantile mortality in this country
and elsewhere, the present position OF
municipal vital statistics, sanitary
supervision Of merchandise in trans.
portation disposal Of sewage and
wastes, school inspection and the econ.
omic aspect Of hook worm in the
United States, were other subjects on
the days program.
Puts It Up to Groom.
When women make it plain that
they will not marry unless the groom
can produce doctors certificate of
perfect health, on that day sex
i hygiene practically will be solved, de-
clared DR.. Ira s. Vile of New York
In an address at the exhibition hall OF
the congress.
Pointing to charts, models, photo
the effects of disease, he declared that
he would rip out the whole thing with
the exception Of the section ons1
eugenfcs.
.Do you suppose that chamber Of
horrors has moral, reforming or
even an educational effect?" he asked.
Il do not believe that fear is high
ethical concept to appeal to. Our
efforts must be turned not toward
dragooning the young to do right but
toward the inculcation Of that right
thinking which leads to right doing.
The education of girls Is the crux Of
the problem. for they can most effect
lively train the boys"
May counterset Rabies.
Suggestion Of means which may
give to man an absolute immunity from
rabies OF dogs, without reference to
the time elapsed after being bitten,
was offered by DR.. J.. L. Harris, city
bacteriologist and patAologist Of st.
Louis, Missouri. in a paper read today
before the congress.
Giving summary of his own work,
Dr.. Harris described series Of ex-
periments with dogs and rabbits by
which immediate and direct immune
zation against rabies was secured by
the injunction OF fractional parts of a
grain Of noneffective rabies virus OF
10 special type. of'virus produced from
the brain Of dog, dead of rabies.
frozen with carbondioxide, snow dried
IN q vacuum at a very low temperature |
and kept in an ice-box.
In the paper on diseases and injuries |
occurring in electric plants, DR.. ]. D.
MCGOWAN surgeon of the Common
wealth Edison Co., of Chicago, ILL.,. de-
clared that the popular impression
shared with the laity by many physisi
clans that contact with electric cur
rent caused paralysis and brain LESSONS
was an erroneous one. DR.. MCGOWAN
said he had seen hundreds Of cases of
shock, and where the man did not
meet Immediate death there never had
been a case in which the patient suf-
fered in any way outside Of local effect |
Of the burns.
A plea for an efficient supply and|
exhause circulation Of air for seamen
on man-of- f-war in time of battle was
made by Surgeon r. G. Holcomb, U. s.
N. In part, Or. Holcomb said:
"a ship in time Of peace, at which |
time the hatches are open, is much |
different problem in ventilation than
ship with it's matches battened down !
ready to enter into battle.
"In peace time the air that is forced I
into compartment finds ready exit
through the open matches When all
matches are closed on the other hand.
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