The Washington herald., 1912-09-26
Rearing Children Morally and
Physically Theme of Lectures
MUST CAPITALIZE
MANS ENERGY
AT ITS HEIGHT
Continued from Page One.

ment. Canal Zone; Former Surg. Gen.
Sternberg, OF the army, and others de-
clared emphatically that the system of
preventing the existence OF the yellow
fever stegomia Is not only eminently
successful in Kidding the Canal Zone OF
mosquitoes. but results In the shutting
out of yellow fever there.
Those who listened to a lecture on
the hookworm disease by DR.. W. C.
Stiles, Public Health Service. were given
an opportunity to observe for themselves
the effects of the ravages OF the dis
ease upon boys. DR.. Stiles brought with
him to the lecture two schoolboys. aged
fourteen and seventeen years. who were
victims of the disease and who DR.. Stiles
said. were typical examples.
Handicap of HOokworm.
"Hookworm disease" said DR.. Stiles.
''is in the United States at least pre-
eminently a disease Of children Of school
age and of women Of child-bearing age"
DIR. Stiles showed that the handicap ex-
perienced during school age follows the
victim through life.
There is far less need of immigration
laws" said DR.. Stiles. than Of laws to
improve the health OF the country. Bet
ter health conditions and the correspond
ing decrease in the death rate would
permit the natural increase of popula-
ton sufficient to furnish all workers
needed in our expanding industries"
The advisability of instituting a sys-
TEN of government control over the
movements of so-called disease carriers
that is. supposedly healthy people who
carry in their systems germs OF contagi-
Gus diseases and while themselves i'm
bla n nfharS-Uas dis
cussed by English. French, German. and
American scientists in the morning. The
opinion of the American public health
officials who took part in the discussion
was that II would be exceedingly diff
cult to institute such a system without
infringing on the constitutional rights OF
the citizens. DIR. G. NJ. Loeffier. Of Ger
many, however. was positive that such
a thing not only is highly desirable, but
is feasible as well. DR.. w. L. Moss. OF
Johns Hopkins University. declared that
in his opinion the isolation or the appli-
cation of any effective restrictions upon
disease carriers is impracticable.
note Of encouragement to prospective
devotees OF the succulent biyalve which
is about to come into Its seasonal popu-
lar favor again was sounded by DR.. Her
bert D. Pease, OF the Lederle Labora-
tories. of New York City. Dr. Pease
oysters. may be the medium of spread
ing disease germs, especially when their
growth has been accomplished in pol
luted waters.
Marriage of Foreigncrs.
OF Schools Of Washing |
ton. and DR.. Willard S. Small. principal |
Of the Eastern High School. read papers !
before one Of the morning sessions. DIR. |
Chancellor said that his experience In
Conn. where he is in charge |
Of the public school system. has shown |
him that the foreign male immigrant |
who marries in this country invariably |
takes an American or an American-born |
woman for wife, except in isolated cases.
where he brings his prospective bride
from the old country.
Exactly the reverse is true, he said,
II foreign women who come to this coun-
ry. They invariably marry foreign men
r remain unwed. DR.. Chancellor's con-
,!usions were drawn from 100 marriages
n Norwalk where OF the 5000 inhabi-
ants, s. per cent are new foreigners
'One thing ! have noticed" he said,
is that the foreigner always picks out
woman who Is physically above the
.verage."
DIR. Small's paper advocated a more
tgid medical inspection of the schools
Medical inspection" he said, lis for
nulating comprehensive programme for
he conservation of the health and eff
iency of children in the schools 1t is
rganfzing agencies not only TO remedy
Effects and to effect cures but also to
improve the hygienic conditions of school
lfe. Medical inspection has pretty fully
olved the problems inside to the control
communicable diseases-both infec-
ious and parasitic
An interesting discussion on the means
4 combating sleeping sickness was led
y DR.. Laveran, OF the French Academy
4 Medicine. and Dr. Therioux. OF the
'rench colonial troops. They agreed that
leeping sickness Is caused for the most
art by tsetse flies or glossines. Glossines
lone. through the medium of bloodsuck-
ng insects, appear able to spread sleep
ne sickness in intertropical Africa. The
isease has often been imported. espe-
tally in America, but they declared that
hey can find no cases Of contagion out
ide of the tsetse areas of Africa.
Municipal MISUNDERSTANDING plants SINH
ar in their work to central markets,
Tere advocated by DR.. John r. Williams,
ecretary of the Monroe County Milk
Rochester, N Y. in an ad-
ress on the economic problems on milk
istribution in their relation to the public
ealth.
Prof. William T. sedgwick. of the Mas
achusetts Institute of Technology, pre-
ded over the section on hygiene OF
-affic and transportation
Protection of the public from pollu-
on from railroads, which was en-
hasized yesterday by Interstate Com
lerce Commissioner Clements, is one
the vital necessities in connection with
lblic health problems, in the opinion
scientists gathered here for the In
Hygiene and Demography
ongress. Papers read by different
ealth officers have given instances
artling in their application of the toll
human life annually taken because
negligence along these lines.
The pollution Of our railroad beds and |
aterways must cease said Prof. w.
Sedgwick. OF the Massachusetts, In
itute OF Technology, in a paper YES
rday. The interest of public
.alth demands that cognizence be taken
this problem" Prof Sedgwick had ii
,inted out how the action Of the State
Washington in protecting the Cedar
iver along the Milwaukee and Puget
,und Railway had resulted in a marked 4
minution of typhoid in communities
pendent upon this river for their water
pply.
Another course OF typhoid epidemics.
nall in size but great in the aggregate
IS Of human life, is the insanitary rail-
ad contracting camp. Lack Of proper III
nitary precautions results not only In III
IS of life among the workmen in the III
mp, but also in jeopardizing the health II
communities for miles around through II
bsequent pollution Of water supply