Evening star., 1912-09-13
District Official to Talk on Pub
lie Health at Coming Congress.
LECTURE COURSE PLANNED
Bureau Busy With Details Of Series
on Subjects of Interest to Public.
EXHIBIT FAST TAKING SHAPE
Systematic Grouping Of Features to
Prove Big Aid to Visitors-Bus
Line to Building Is Planned.

Asa E. Phillips, superintendent of the
sewer department of the District gov
public on several interesting features of
the engineering question concerned in
public health, the lecture being part OF
the series prepared by the directors of
the fifteenth International Congress on
Hygiene and Demography. The an
OF the date Of this and other
lectures in the public hall Of the build
ing in which the congress and its eX-
hibits are now being housed in Potomac
Park will be made within few days by
Norman Roberts. passed assistant surgeon
of the public health service. who is IN
charge Of the lecture bureau.
The appearance Of several other men.
all experts in their line, is promised by
this lecture bureau: the lectures will be
lar terms, and will be entirely for the
benefit of the public education In pub
lie health, sanitation, child study and the
various branches Of hygiene represented
in the congress and the exhibits. q.
Stanley Hall OF Clark University, Massa-
chusetts, recognized as an authority on
child study, will appear on the lecture
platform, and will also cooperate with
the educational officials here I'm connec-
tion with the abnormal children which
the schools have to deal with.
Bus Line to Exhibit.
Although the exhibit is in a compara-
lively inaccessible place, the directors are
planning to establish a bus line to con-
meet with the nearest street car line.
The exhibit will be opened formally
Monday evening and will continue open
until October 4. The sessions Of the nine
sections OF the congress will take place
during the first week. The exhibit will
eschewsky of the United States public
health service.
States to Cooperate.
The recent progress Of the public health
movement in continental America and
the dependencies of the United States /.
to be thoroughly illustrated. To this enc
the governors Of all the states in the Cnior
have appointed committees to cooperate
with the committee on organization II
preparing and planning the exhibit. 81
great. has been the pressure for space fol
exhibits that the building In which tn,
exhibition is housed has been enlarget
three times since 1t was first planned fo
delayed arranging for space have beer
unable to be accommodated
More than an acre Of floor space is pro
vided in the building. This and all tn,
wall space Is taken up with the various
exhibits. The exhibition is to be free t,
all. There Is no charge for exhibits, an<
there will be no admission fee.
The exhibition on health is planned I,
create a popular impulse toward the gen
eral betterment of sanitary conditions il
the United States and show even greater
results than have followed the exhibition
on tuberculosis which took place in Wash
ington in 1908 and which has already re
suited in the adoption of countrywide
measures for the suppression of this one
disease, effecting a notable diminution il
On Topical Basis.
The exhibition. covering the genera
field Of hygiene, has been arranged on q
topical basis, SO that the material i.
shown in an orderly and instructive man
ner. In this way striking and concrete
exposition Of fundamental principles o.
hygiene and the practical methods o
their application have been furnished
The various data is presented so as to re-
cetve proper weight according to theil
relative Importance, thus diminishing the
danger Of visitors being confused by the
presentation of a great body Of unre-
lated facts.
There are twelve distinct groups in the
exhibition, one Of which Is devoted to
vital statistics and demography and the
others to various phases of hygiene.
Some remarkable figures in the first Sec
ton are set forth. For instance. the Dis
trict of. Columbia's part in this section
shows that the people Of Washington
now live on an average of nine years
longer than they did before the present
sanitary measures were put into effect.
There are many other equally startling
figures set forth in this group The
group itse.f Is subdivided into seven sec
tons, with special group on infant
mortality.
The second section illustrates growth
and nutrition and the part that various
foods play IN developing or retardine
health: Various measures for sanitary
control Of food supplies are shown.
There are six other sections of this
group. The hygiene of infancy and
childhood. with an elaborate series of
sections relating to school hygiene and
hygiene Of early childhood and infancy,
composes the third group. and 1t is GER
tain to command the interest and atten-
ton of educators and parents.
Of Interest to Athletes.
The physiology and hygiene Of exercise
is illustrated in the fourth section, and is
designed to interest athletes and sports
men.
An entire group, the fifth, is devoted to
the subject of sanitary housing, with
sections on city plans, planning of build
ing, dwelling essentials, ventilation and
illumination. Here, again, another grouu
of persons will be especially interested,
the builders, architects and home owners.
Capitalists and laborers alike are ex-
pected to be interested in the sixth sec
ton. which has to do with Industrial and
occupational hygiene. There are eleven
sections in this group.
The seventh group Is devoted to COM
municable disease; the eighth to state
and municipal hygiene; the ninth to meth
DDS of caring for the sick and to life saw
ing: the tenth is an elaborate illustration
of the hygiene of traffic and transpOrta-
ton, covering every form OF public trans
portation; the eleventh will be an exposi-