New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-27

able and comprehensive work has been
done by women"
Dr.. Morton a Busy Woman.
DR. Morton herself has done great
deal OF public work In addition 10 her
practice. For two years she was chair
man of the public health education COM
nittee of the American Medical Associa-
ton. This committee was organized three
years ago, and was the first national or
| ganized effort on the part Of physicians
In q systematic way 20 educate the pco-
! pie on the prevention of diseases. She IS
now honorary chairman Of this com
mittee.
! Speaking on Sanitary Aspects Of Hous
/ ing Problems" Robert II. lie Forest. Of
New York. president Of tho National
| Housing Association. declared that ne
pinned all his faith for protection in the
! improvement OF housing conditions on the
! timeworn process Of education. He said:
knowledge OF proper housing conditions
creates a demand for them. The demand
will create the supply. ! do not ignore
! legislation, but / put education in the
/ first place. Many of my reforming friends
resolutions and enact laws and when
( they have done so. smile sef-satished
smile and calmly rest in the consciousness
that the whole thing ~ done. They FOR
get that education. to the extent Of form
ing public opinion. must precede laws.
The model housing law. which has been
helped materially 10 reduce the death
rate The death rate In the year 1909,
before the law went into effect. was
2o057 per thousand while I'm the first ten
months I'm 1911 It was 1904.
At the afternoon session of the section
on hygiene OF occupations DR.. Charles y.
Neln United States Commissioner OF
Labor. read a paper on The Relations of
the Bureau OF Labor to Industrial Hy-
giene," in which he gave an outline u
what the bureau had been able TO accom-
plish in the way Of securing better work
ing conditions. and related some Of the
obstacles that have been overcome I'm the
work
Nurses find that well-to-do families, re
we'll as the poorer, are often "astonish-
ingy ignorant Of even the rudimentary
principles Of house and personal hygiene,
according 20 Miss Adelaide Nuttins, Of
the Teachers College OF Columbia Uni
versity, whose paper was read this morn
ing.
Miss Nutting said that visiting nurses
were doing world Of good, even In such
simple matters as teaching tho children
Of houses where they visit that the
habits Of pet dogs and cats DO not render
them suitable objects to DO kissed and
fondled, that the pretty little wayside
brook ought usually TO he resisted, no
matter how thirsty one is. and that
screens are a good investment
Don't Make Rash Prophecies.
Don't make rash prophecies as TO the
date when disease Will be eliminated from
the world" said DR.. Livingston II. Far
rand. executive secretary Of the National
Anti Tuberculosis Association OF New
York. who talked on the development OF
educational efforts for the public health.
Dr. Farrand said that the newspapers OF
the country are the only medium in which
really hygienic education can be achieved,
and he said that the newspapers have
aroused wave of interest that II Is al
most difficult TO control. but. while en-
thusiasn IL growing and Is daily more
easy 20 find, remember that enthusiasm IS
not always wisdom"
'If alcoholism was the cause OF mental
diseases we would all be imbociles to-
day" asserted Or. Macmillan p. B.
Groszmaun. director OF tho National AS
ISOLATION for tho Study and Education OF
Exceptional Children. for our ancestors
drank excessively and took big might
cans and" ne added, "all tho Germans
would be irnbeciles, whereas they are @
nation of strong minded artisans and sci
entists."
Intemperance, he said, was a disease.
and would occur In families suffering
from mental Weaknesses: but until II had
been proved that It was cause II should
not be classed as such.
The United States probably Will reap
an increasing harvest in insanity as a re-
suIt Of the failure by Congress 10 pass
,n,n,gration laws requiring mental tests
90 Immigrants, declared Or. Thomas W.
o.,,oo,, Of the United States Public
Health Service
cosrevation Of feeble minded children
e., colonies would prevent society from
ho,rg hurdened with many criminals.
1,-,,Lards prostitutes and paupers. DR..
m.s Hutchinson, Of New York, de-
oI.rsd He said that II was mistake to
80. ,h.,o in classes by themselves for
IT,. ond then send them back into the
,,o,,a under the impression that they
,yera normal They never could DC maue
a, n. said. 10 become norman cltiAens'
IT.. ,,i,sl statistics section or the congress
s.a,aoa ,o nr.sent 20 the congress as
,,,ho,a recommendation that all couh-
-. IL soorts 10 have accurate mar