The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-09-23
HEALTH EXHIBITS
DRAW Big CROWDS
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will be awarded a trophy in the form Of
a large bronze plaque.
The judges will be army surgeons and
leaders in the Boy Scout movement The
municipal bathing pool at the edge of
the field will be used for the water
events. Every evening there will be
big camp fire. at which talks will be
given on the problems OF camp and boy
lite by Lee McClung, Treasurer Of the
United States: Mgr. Russell. pastor of
ST. Patricks Church: William Knowles
Cooper. secretary Of the Y. NJ. c. A; Z.
S. Martin. James E. West. chief scout
executive of the Boy Scouts of America:
Lee F. Hammer. assistant director of the
Russell Sage Foundation, and DIR. Luther
Gulick, in charge OF the department of
child study of the Russell Sage Foun-
dation. Other speakers will be drafted
from day to day from the list of notables
on the programme Of the Hygiene Con-
gress.
Camp Fire Girls Busy.
simultaneously with the work of the
Boy Scouts. the Washington Camp Fire
Girls will carry out a daily programme
of athletic events on the same field, with
competitive features. The full programme
for this work has not been completed,
pending the arrival of members OF the
camps OF other cities. They will also
be addressed by men and women taking
part in the congress.
An area of approximately twenty acres
will be used for the various camps and
exercises. An additional feature will be
the Fairgrounds contests on the part of
boys and girls not in the scouts or camp
fire organizations. More than l.ooO chill
Jren from various playground associa-
tions OF the city have been enrolled to
participate, and they gave their first big
exhibition drill before large assemblage
yesterday afternoon. All events are to be
competitive, the boy and girl winning the
highest number of merits each to be
awarded bronze medals. While the work
OF the boys will be practically all ath-
letic the work Of the girls will pertain
mostly to the home.
At the close OF the exhibition drills
yesterday afternoon the spectators were
surprised by the sudden appearance of
Field Hospital No. of the United States
army. which galloped onto the field and
demonstrated how quickly It could be
set up for the reception of patients.
Within two hours a complete field hos
pital outfit was established, and demon
strations were at once made Of admins
tering to the wounded. performing surgI-
cal operations. &c.
VIII Use Dummies.
Each day there will be practical demon
strations OF treatment OF live patients.
and dummies will be used for the surgi-
cs! operations. Every organ. muscle.
lisament. and bone in the human body is
represented in the dummies. The hos
pital Is also used for actual service when
required. and while demonstration of
an operation was under way a little
urchin who had fallen out Of a swing
and suffered a sprained wrist. was
brought in. treated, and sent back TO
play within a period of ten minutes.
The camp consists of twenty-three
hospital tents. five officers tents and
eight pyramidal tents for the men.
There are cot accommodations for 16O
patients, but in actual service the force
could handle from 300 to 500 cases
every twenty-four hours. This is de-
clared by the army authorities to be
the model field hospital equipment of
the world. 1t is commanded by Capt
DR.. w. A. Wickline. of the United
States Army Medical Corps.
Exhibit Cars Arrive.
The three health exhibit cars. which
were sent-one each from Maryland.
Louisiana and California-were thrown
open to the public out in the railroad
yards, near Union Station, yesterday
afternoon and there were many visit
ors. These exhibits were sent too late
TO be given space in the exhibition
hall. The California and Louisiana
cars contain maps. photographs. charts
and models dealing especially with the
problems Of health and sanitation in
rural districts. some of them being
planned on novel and impressive lines.
The California car is under the
charge of DR.. William F. Snow, secre-
tary Of the California State Board of
Health. and DR.. Oscar Bowling, presi-
dent of the Louisiana Board of Health.
is in charge of the car from that State.
The Maryland car was sent by the So
ciety for the Prevention of Tubercu-
losis of that State, and its exhibits are
planned on the policy of visualizing
the great loss from white plague, with
object lessons and concrete examples
A course of hourly lectures was begun
in each OF these cars yesterday.