The Washington times., 1912-09-13
SPLENDID EXHIBIT
TO Be FEATURE OF
HYGIENE CONGRESS
Army And Navy, Cities, And
Trinity Church Will
Have Displays.

Washington is shortly to see another
great scientific exhibit, comparable only
to that of the International Tubercu-
losis Congress in f90S-that of the Inter-
national Congress Of Hygiene and
Demography, opening next Monday
night.
From the army and navy Of the Uni
ted states, from such widely diversified
organizations as the Society for the
Promotion Of Eugenics and the Pierce
Arrow Automobile Company, have come
exhibits of such an elaborate nature
that 1t is doubtful IL any Of similar
range will be held in this country for
years to come.
For three weeks the exhibit will be
open. the first week for the American
Medical Society meeting, the second
f1r the International Congress on Hy-
giene and Demography. and the third
for the public. The latter, however,
Is welcome at all times, and for its
benefit brief and practical talks will be
given In the lecture hall daily, supple
mented by motion pictures.
The exhibit Is now almost complete.
The navy has installed a battleship.
operating room, expected to reach its
highest efficiency in the stress CT bat
tie. and also its commissary depart
ment. Here Is to be seen a remark
able kitchen. Everything is run b.
electricity, including meat choppers
dough mixers, dish washers. ovens and
stoves. In the United States Navy are
to be found the largest and most salts
factory Mechanical dish washers in the
world, and the commissariat is justly
proud Of them.
The army is exhibiting hygienic appli.
ances. from the latest sanitary Khaki
uniforms to their field hospitals and
kitchens. The charts also give graphic
demonstration of the lowering of the
death rate since sanitary science wa.
brought to bear on army problems.
Trinity Church Shows Houses.
The American Dental Association mas
installed a modern dental operating
room, with every detailed appliance
which has been accepted by the profes-
sion. The Russell Sage Foundation OF
New York is showing its latest found
ling homo with models carried out in
perfect detail, both as to the exterior
and interior. Infants beds, weighing
scales, and all the paraphernalia Of a
baby hospital are included In the
exhibit
The city of New York has perhaps
the most extensive display in the ex'
hibit. 1t ranges from large plaster
models showing the gathering Of it!
water supply in the Catskills to, tn,
latest tenements of the East Side, par
ticularly on Rivington street, and II
Greenwich village. The corporation o
the famous Trinity Church. said to b,
the richest parish in the world, whicl
was so bitterly attacked three year
ago because of the wretched, disease
breeding condition of it's tenements, 1.
showing its progressive movement IL
the way Of reform. 1t has more thar
half dozen models, supplemented will
numerous photographs, of it's latest
model houses. and shows numerous
photographs Of an aged couple "whc
have been tenants of Trinity for NOR,
than thirty years"
New York city shows models OF iti
gigantic water supply system, running
from the Catskills to the Battery. The
models of its sewage disposal system
are said to be the only ones of theii
kind ever constructed. They are lent
to the Congress by the American Mu.
scum of Natural History, and 1t cost
more than $1,000 to transport them to
this city.
The American Society for the Promo.