Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-05-23
Accomplishments
TO Be DISPLAYED
Robert M. McWade.

Bismarck Tribune washington Bureau.
WASHINGTON, May 23.-Uncle
Sam, physician extraordinary and
hygienist plenipotentiary to all these
United States is to display all his
accomplishments, natural and acQuir.
ed, not only before the American peo-
pie but before the assembled scient-
lists of the world at the coming Inter-
national Congress on Hygiene and
denography, which is to be held here
in September. At least, that's the
plan that has the warm support not
only of congress but also President
Taft and his cabinet; and the proba-
bilities favor the early appropriation
by congress- of $4,000 to make pos
sIble the active and proper participa-
ton of the governmental department.
Every one knows in general way,
more or less, that many bureaus of
the federal departments are engaged
in the conservation of the public
health. Thus, the IVORY of the meat
inspector, the medical inspectors of
Immigrants, the analyses of food and
drugs that are sold for human con-
sumption, and lost Of other important
and responsible officers performing
kindred duties are very frequently in
the publics eye. But never before
has there been either reason or op-
portunity for showing in concentrated
form all OF the public health work
which 10 accomplished by the servants
of Uncle Sam in the regular routine
of their daily duties or labors.
In the exhibition of health, which
is to form a material portion of the
congress it is intended to have ex-
hibits from every one Of the twenty
three government bureaus which deal
with Efesaving or health-saving for
the people. For instance, the treas
ury department desires to show what
it's public health and marineIhospital
service is doing in fifteen lines OF
work. 1t alsodesires to make an ex-
hibit of it's .life-saving service, with
a fully equipped life-boat, apparatus
and crew for demonstrations.
Similarly the war department and
the navy department wish to illust.
rate the operations Of their medical
branches; the post office department
proposes to show how pathological
material is safety in mailing cases.
Representing the department of the
interior there will be exhibits by the
bureaus of Indian affairs, education,
and mines and the geological survey.
The department of agriculture will
demonstrate the activities of the
bureaus of animal industry, plant in
dustry and entomology and of the
office of experiment stations For the
department of commerce and labor
there will be exhibits from the
bureaus of labor census, fisheries,
migration and naturalization, and
The Isthmian Canal commission
proposes to show how it has dealt
with military, naval and tropical n.y.
gene, to show the influence of tropi-
cal climate on foreigners, accclima-
ton, housing, dietetics, clothing and
the prevention of tropical dis ease.
The Smithsonian institution has an
ambition program; among the exhibits
it proposes to make being those in
tended to show 1.-THE physical charac-
teristics of pure-bred Americans, data
relating to results of inter-marriage
between the Indian and the white,
and the normal growth of the average
American child"
All of these exhibits have been
planned by an Inter Department CON-
mittee which was appointed by Secre-
tary Franklin MacVeagh, Of the de-
partment of the treasury. In its re-
quest for the necessary appropriation
the committee stated that "tae fed
eral bureaus are constantly in receipt
Of requests for exhibits with which |
they are often unable to comply, and
that the occasion of this congress and
the affords a rare opportunity for the
dissemination of much valuable know
LEDGE"