The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-05-27
UNCLE SA
Will Do Some Important.
Things at Health Congress
Next September.

WASHINGTON. May 27-Uncle
Sam, physician extraordinary and
hygienlst plenipotentlary to all these
United States, will display all OF his
accomplishments. not only before the
American people but before the as
sembled scientists Of the world at the
Forthcoming Fifteenth International
Congress on Hygiene and Demograp-
by which will be held in Washington
in September At least that is the
plan which has the support not only.
Of the officers of the Congress but
President Taft and the members Of
his cabinet, and it is believed that
efforts are now nearing fruitlon soi
secure the necessary appropriation of
some $4,000 by Congress to make
possible the proper participation by
the governmental departments.
Everyone knows in a more or less
general way that many bureaus oil
the federal departments are actively
engaged in the conservation Of the
public health, and the work of the
meat inspectors, the medical inspec-
tors Of immigrants and other officers
permorming similar duties are fire.
.queptly in the public eye. But never
before has their been either reason
or opportunity for showing in con
centrated form all of the public health
work which is accomplished by the
servants of Uncle Sam in the regu-
lar routine Of their daily labors.
In the exhibition on health which
will be a material part Of the Fiji
teenth International Congress, it is
proposed to have exhibits from
every one of the twenty-three gov
ernment bureaus which deal with
life-saying or health-saving for the
people, The department Of the
treasury, for instance, desires to
show what its public health and ma
rine hospital service is doing in fif-
teen different lines of work. 1t also
desires to make an exhibit of it's
1ife-saving service, with a fully
equipped life-boat, apparatus and
crew for demonstrations.
Similarly the war department and
the navy department wish to illus
'trate the operations OF their medical
branches; the postoffice department
proIpbs6s to show how pathological
material ds safely transmitted in
mailing cases.
Representing the department of the
interior there will be the exhibits by
the bureaus Of 1ndlon affairs, educa-
ton, and mines and the geological
survey. The department of agricui-
ture will demonstrate the activities
Of the bureaus of animal industry,
plant industry 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,
immigration and naturalization, and
standards.
The 1sthmian Calan Commission
proposes to show how it has dealt
with military, naval and topical hy-
giene, to show the influence Of trop-
tcal climate on foreigners, acclima-
'tization, housing, dietics, clothing
and the prevention of tropical dis
ease. The Smithsonian Institution
has an ambitious program; among
the exhibits it proposes to make be-
ing those intended to show "the
physical characteristics of pure-bred
Americans, data relating to results
Of inter-marriage between the Indian
and the white, and the normal growt!
of the average American child"
All of these exhibits have been
planned by the inter-departmental
committee which was appointed by
Secretary Franklin MacVeagh, Of the
department of the treasury. In its
request for the necessary appropria-
ton the committee stated that "the
federal bureaus are constantly in re-
ceipt of requests for exhibits with
which they are often unable to COM
ply, and that the occasion of this
congress and exhibition affords a
rare opportunity for the dissemina-
ton of much valuable knowledge"