Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-09-19

Asymposium on the cold storage Of
foods and food products was held at the
general session of the American Public
Health Association, at the New Willard,
| this morning.
After the transaction of routine BUSH
ness and the election of new members
Prof. William T. Sedgwick Of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology, Bos-
ton. read a paper on 'Cold Storage and
Public Health in the course of which he
| declared that modern cold storage, al
| though it undoubtedly has proved a pow
erful factor in the maintenance of a
steady and regular supply of foods,
| which, without such storage, could not
be made available at ,all seasons has,
equally undoubtedly, contributed in no
| small degree to that general modern af-
| fiction, poor digestion. and consequently
| has had a strong tendency to lower the
health standards of the country.
DIR. Peter H. Bryce, superintendent Of
| immigration, Ottawa, Canada, read a
| as Applied to the Conservation Of Food
Products" in which he discussed the
physical changes brought about in vari-
GUS foods by reason of longer or shorter
storage in the modern cold storage plant.
1.-THE Bacteriology of Fermentation and
Putrefaction in Relation to the Conserva-
| ton OF Foods was the title of a paper
| by Prof Samuel c. Prescott of the
| Massachusetts Institute or Technology.
| and DIR. Mary E. Pennington, chief of the
| food research laboratory, bureau of chem
istry, Department Of Agriculture. told Of
| The Hygfenic and Economic Results Of
Refrigeration in the Conservation Of
| Poultry and Eggs, in the course of her
paper holding that the economic results
attained by reason of such storage of
! these perishable foods are considerably
| greater than the hygieric benefits Of
| storage.
| Dr. Herbert D. Pease Of the Lederle
laboratories. New York. discussed The
| Hygienic Results of Refrigeration In the
| Conservation of Fish and Molluscs." The
| final paper in the symposium, on the
subject Cold Storage in Relation to the
Food Supply was read by Harry E.
Barnard. state food and drug commits
| sioner of Indiana The general discussion
| which followed the closing of the SYM
| postum was participated IN by dozen
or more of the scientists
This Afternoons Session.
At the general session this afternoon
the opening paper was by Dr. John A.
Terrell, director of the hookworm COM
mission of Raleigh. n. c., who gave a
history of the commissions work and told
what has been accomplished. Already
more than $4,000 persons have been
treated OF these $4,000 We're treated by
! the general practitioners, and $4,000, OF
these have been treated free by repre-
sentatives of the state health departments
for demonstrative purposes in county dis.
pensaries.
The Cuban delegate, DR.. Julio F. Ar
| tega, contributed paper on Possible
| Dangers in Mineral Waters" and DR.
Miguel Marquee Of Chihuahua, Mexico
discussed Rules of Hygiene Which
Should Be Observed in Hospitals and in
Sanatoria." Other papers read at the
Afternoon session were: Sewage Treat
ment VS.. Sewage Publication by Prof
| George C. Whipple of Harvard Univer-
sity, and a paper on Seasonal Tempera-
lures and Seasonal Diseases" read by Dr..
Charles E. North, consulting sanitarian OF
New York