New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-26
.HOOKWORM VICTIMS
SHOWN At CONGRESS
BOYS Afflicted with the Disease
Are Exhibited to Interna-
tionaI Scientists.
10000 BABIES DIE DAILY
E. B. Phelps, of New York, Says
an Infant Death Occurs Every
Other Second-Health
Marriages Urged.
LFrom The Tribune Rurtau.l

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From The Tribune Bureau
Washington. Sept. 95.-Two schoolboys.
aged fourteen and seventeen years. VINO
are victims Of the hookworm disease.
We're exhibited at the International Con-
grcss Of Hygiene and Demography to-day.
/ Theyc were shown by Professor W. {.
stiles, of the Public Health Service, who
discussed The Economic Aspects OF the
Hookworm Disease in the United States.
Professor Stiles said they we're typical
examples of the ravases OF the disease
'IIookworm disease in the United
States" said Professor Stiles, rs pre-
cminently a disease of children or schooi
age and of women OF child bearing age
lie showed that the educational handi-
cap to rural children follows them
throughout life. making them less Ell
hient factors in the economic develop
ment OF the country. He described the
special strain on mothers. the tendency
to age rapidly. and the influence OF the
tendency on the home
Professor Stiles said that we are FAR
less I'm need OF immigration than OF laws
TO improve the health Of the country, 40
claring that better health conditions and
a decreased death rate would permit the
natural increase Of population TO furnish
All the workers needed In our expanding
industries
Health the National Capital
Or. Frederick zahn. OF Munich. director
of the Bayarian Statistical ONCE, was the
principal speaker at the plenary session
OF he congress His subject vas The
Working Mans Insurance, Its Social
HYGIENE ana Social Polite Importance.
lie said:
The people aud the peoples strength
ara The greatest asset OF the nation. II
is not a mass. no, negligible guanu'y,
but an organic national capital whose
further meaning represents inc iouliuh-
ton Of culture and of commercial pTouuC-
tivity. Judging the wealth OF a coun,
try to-day depends 10 large extent uIon
the uuantitativo greatness and also upon
toe qualitative maturity OF the inhsoit-
ans 70 make the greatest use ana 20
secure tie greatest development OF the
p,oplc. II IL ncc"ss airy. therefore. 20 have
. systematic CONSERVATISM Of the organic
national capital. and IN" interest," sna
compound interest ~ no chptdI repre-,
,eutrd bv the people must bo obtained
without elimination of the intrinsic value
81 this capital
Tic foundation OF every farsishted
social policy must be based more on
energy reserve than on money reserve
asserted Or. Zahn.
Edward Bunncll Phelps, OF New York,
discussed the worldwide effort 10 dim'n-
.sh infant mortality and It's present status
and possibilities. Demonstrating by data
that approximately 10000 babies are
born each year and that about 10000
die before the frat year Of hfe, Mr..
Phelps declared that 1900 babies succumb
each day. year in and year out which
practically means that an infant death
occurs every other second.
There are the best Of reasons for be-
levin. that at least - per cent OF the
worlds present infant mortality ir readily
preventa BE" said Mr.. Phelps and the
civilized countries are just beginning 10
awake 10 that tact
Must vacoinsts Children.
pr. Abraham Sophian. Of the New York
Department OF Health said that we must
yacciuatc the children against meningitis,
n the ravageS OF the disease. the mortal
ity rate Of which sometimes runs 10 ~
per cent, arc to he ended.
Fmployes Of diaries and hotels. espe-
cialiy summer resorts. should be required
10 present clean BILLS Of health before be
inc EMPLOYED declared Dr.. Charles Nor
rs OF Bellevue Hospital New York. The
elimination OF bacillus carriers from this
class Of semi-publc servants, he said,
would go long way toward removing
a. lob he. h
lie is exposed
When women make II plain that they
= ~ not marry unless the bridegroom can
produce a doctors certificate Of perfect
health, on that day the problem OF sex
hygiene practically will be solved, declared
Or. Ira $. VILE, OF New York. Pointing 20
charts. models. photographs and h'e-sze
casts illustrating the effects OF disease az
the exhibition hall OF the congress he de-
clared that he would rip ont the whole
thing with the exception Of the section
on eugenics saying:
10 Won suppose that chamber o, hor
rors has a moral reforming or even an
educational effect? I do not believe that
fear Is a high ethical concept To appeal
l.. our efforts must be turned, not
toUard draaooning the young 10 DO right,
hui toward the Incubation OF that right
thinking which leads 20 right doing. The
educai ion of girls IL the cruX OF the prob
lem. FOR they can most effectively train
the boys.
The declaration that IL is impossible
10 rid a zone Of yellow fever and that
Inc disease IS found now In tho Panama
Canal zone, made by Dr. Hara!d Seidilin.
OF Liverpool. England. vas denied by Or.
A. !. Orenstein, OF the sanitary depart
ment Of the canal zone, and by several
other American medical officers.
Representatives OF the Association Of
Life Insurance Presidents are attending
most OF the sections. Recommendation
will be made 10 the next annual meeting
OF the association based on new informa-
lion In regard TO health and statistical
lucas gathered here.
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