The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1912-10-11
DEMOGRAPHY AND
WHAT 1T MEANS.
Interesting Conclusions are
Reached by Scientists and
Specialists at the Worlds
Congress of Hygiene.

which has just closed it's 18th annual
session in Washington, has moved
some of the epitomizers of the capi-
tai city to incase it's results in the
traditional nutshell. Everyone knows,
of course, what hygiene is, but no.
body except those who look it up or
happen to meet someone who has
looked it up, knows what demog-
raphphy is-an dit isn't safe to take
the word of any newspaper article, if
one really wants to know what it is.
There are thousands of people in
Washington, though, who have learn
ed within the past few days that
demography is, in broad sense, the
drawing of differences and conclusions
from medical and vital statistics. 1t
doesn't include just any kind of con-
clusions or inference-it has got to be
a scientifically drawn one.
Among the more important discov-
cries announced during the sessions
Of the recent congress are those
enumerated below, which are said by
the epitomizers to comprise the re-
suits of the congress in a nutshell:
Mine explosions can be reduced
through the use of a new chemical,
which absorb coal dust, the chemi-
cal not being named.-Sir Thomas
Oliver, England.
Sneezing and not the scales from
children having measles carries the
germs of the disease.-Drs. John An
derson and Joseph Goldberger, Wash
ington.
The dread of hunger is a potent
factor in the development of social
ism.-Dr.Max Rubner, Germany.
Infantile paralysis is carried
through the bite of the stable fly
DR.. M. j. Rosenau, Harvard Univer-
|sity; y-,......-..
The gland virus ef rabies is better
as an antitoxin for rabies than the
brain virus.-Dr. Warren Poor, New
York city.
Insects are the carriers of typhus
fever, proposition which has been
disputed during the congress.-Drs.
Joseph Goldberger and John Ander-
son, Washington.
Irfantile paralysis is carried from
person to person through the secre-
tions of the nose.-Or. Alfred Pet
terson, Sweden. Disputed by DR.. M. J.
Rosenau, of Harvard University.
Benzoat of soda in food prepara-
tions is not harmful, despite the con-
clusions of DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
DR.. John H. Long, Chicago.
The virus of new micro organism
used in a hundred bilionth of CEN
timeter, will kill rats carrying bu-
bonic plague.-Dr. Frederick Novy,
Ann Arbor, Mich.
tuberculosis in Children.
Fully 100000 public school chill
dren in the United States have traces
of tuberculosis.-Dr. S. Adolphus
Knopf, New York.
There must be an economy of wo-
mans energy if the nations of the
world are to maintain the high stand
ards set by the age.-Dr. Frederick
Zahn, Germany.
The great advancement in science
will make it possible for the next
century to realize Ponce de Icons
dream of perpetual youth.-President
William H. Taft.
Farmers are the healthiest class of
humanity and liquor dealers the most
sicky.-Dr. Jacques Bertillon, France.
Dwarfs can grow, no matter how
long the stunted conditions has ex-
isted.-Dr. Lafayette Mendall, Yale
University.
The child should make its own
moral code and have any kind of
food It wants when it wants it.-Dr.
Woods Hutchinson, New York.
Infection by the air is no longer
the chief factor in the spread of in
fectious diseases.-Dr. Charles ".
Chaplin, Providence, r. I.
. All milk fed to babies should be
pasteurized, to insure healthy milk
being fed to children.--Nathan Straus
New York.
Immunization from influenza men,
nights can be obtained through the
virus Of the serum Of persons suffer-
ing from the disease.-Dr. Anna
Wollstein, New York.
Prevent Malarial Fever.
Malarial fever parasites can be pro-
duced artificially, thus opening the
way for the prevention of malarial
fever.-Dr. c. C. Bliss, New Orleans
A specific yellow fever parasite ex-
ist and was discovered by him. Dis
Juted by the United States army
medical ofiicers.--Dr. N. Fornet, Ger