Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-20
GOVERNMENT TO SHOW
LIFE AND HEALTH WORK
Exhibits Planned for Congress
on Hygiene and Demog-
raphy.

Uncle Sam as q physician and hygienist
win display all of his accomplishments,
not only before the American people, but
before the assembled scientists of the
world, at the fifteenth International Con-
gress on Hygiene and Demography. which
will be held in Washington in September.
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 1t is believed that efforts
are now nearing fruition to secure the
necessary appropriation of $4,000 by
Congress to make possible the proper par
ticipation by the governmental depart
ments.
Many bureaus of the executive depart
ments are actively engaged in the conser-
walton of the public health, and the work
of the meat inspectors, the medical IN
spectors OF immigrants and other officers
performing similar duties Is frequently
in the public eye. But never before, 1t Is
explained. has there been either reason or
opportunity for showing in concentrated
form all of the public health work which
is accomplished by government officials in
The Exhibition on Health.
In the exhibition on health, which will
be an important part Of the fifteenth In
ternational congress. 1t is proposed to have
exhibits from every one of the twenty
three government bureaus which deal
with life saving or health saving for the
people. The Department Of the Treas
ury, for instance. desires to show what
its public health and marine hospital
service is doing in fifteen different lines
Of work. It also desires to make an ex-
hibit of its life-saving service, with q
fully equipped lifeboat, apparatus and
crew for demonstrations.
Similarly, the War Department and the
Navy Department wish to illustrate the
operations of their medical branches.
The Post ONCE Department proposes to
show how pathological material is safely
transmitted in mailing cases.
Representing the Department OF the
Interior there will be exhibits by the bu-
reaus Of Indian affairs, education and
mines and the geological survey. The De-
partment of Agriculture 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
bureaus Of labor. census, fisheries. immi-
grafton and naturalization and standards.
Sanitation Of the Canal Zone.
The isthmian canal commission pro-
poses to show how 1t has dealt with
military, naval and tropical hygiene: to
show the influence of tropical climate on
foreigners. acclimitization, housing. d.
etetics, clothing and the prevention Of
tropical disease. The Smithsonian Insti-
tuition has an ambitious program. among
the exhibits II proposes to make being
those intended to show 1.-THE physical
characteristics Of pure-bred Americans.
data relating to results Of intermarriage
between the Indian and the white and
the normal growth of the average Ameri-
can child"
All of these exhibits have been planned
by an interdepartmental committee which
was appointed by Secretary Franklin
MacVeagh of the Department of the
Treasury. In it's request for the neces-
sary appropriation the committee stated
that "the federal bureaus are constantly
in receipt of requests for exhibits, with
which they are often unable to comply,
and that the occasion Of this congress and
exhibition affords q rare opportunity for
the dissemination Of much valuable
knowledge"