The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-24
URGES 4 NATIONAL BUREAU OF HEALTH Taft Welcomes Delegates to
 Hygiene Congress
HEALTH PROBLEMS
Dr. Now Has Discovered Micro Or gaiiism Fatal Only to Rate iss Minute Particles-Too Much
 Theory in School Hygiene

Washington. September 2S--A national
 bureau of health was urged today by
 President Taft in his address of welcome to the Fifteenth Annual Congress
 of Hygiene and Demography, and by pr. Henry II. Walcott, of Massachusetts, president of the congress.
 The first days session of the congress, which will continue throughout the week, was filled with discussion of importance in its relation to public health problems.
 pr. John H. Long, of the Northwestern
 University Medical school. Chicago, told
 the delegates today that he had experi- mented with poison squds' and had found no i'll effects from the use of ben-
 zoate of soda and sulphate of copper. The discovery of micro organism which may be great value in wiping out bubonic plague being fatal to rats and rats only in minute quantities. was an-
 nounced by pr. Fred c. Now, of the
 University of Michigan. One hundred
 millionth part of a cubic centimeter, he said. would kill any rat at once. Too Much Theory In no other profession does the practi- tioner know so much about the theory of his subject and so little about the mater ial with which he is to work as in teach- ing school hygiene declared pr. Mary $. Macy of the New York University. A common mistake today, she said, was to emphasize the psychic side of the child and ignore the physical needs. The hy- giene of childhood should be discussed she asserted, in women's clubs. at mems lodge meetings and in college courses of study.
 The physical standards required of wo- men teachers today are comparable to those in the army and navy, said Dr. Grace N. Kimbal of New York. More and more has been demanded year by year of the teacher. she added, and yet
 the convenience of the teacher is little
 considered.
 Open air schools, not as the exception, but as the rule, were urged by Dr. $. Adolphus Knopf of New York. who said if no better method could be adopted every window in the school room should be left open.
 pr. Theodore Thompson, chief assist
 ant medical officer of the local govern-
 ment board, London, said that in Eng land the board of health body is the To- cal government board, which has super
 vision over practically every public health administration throughout the country.
 Advocates Health Bureau We need to develop nnder govern mental auspices bureau in which the funds of the government shall be ex- pended for research of every. kind useful in the practice and enforcesnent of hy- giene and preventive medicine" President Taft said today in welcoming tine dele- gates. That something of this sort may I grow out of the public health service, there is reason to believe"
 i Continuing he said:
 "Our responsibilities in Cuba. Porto 1 Isthmus of Panama. have so enlareed our
 knowledge of the possibilities of the sue
 cess at first pictured of ssnifaton afiaor
 the most burdensofne condition that it
 nowadays impresses the laymen and
 professor at all familiar with the condi-
 tions of the necessity for more rigid and
 comprehensive health laws and stricter
 enforcement of the quarantine. The Span | ish war resulted in useful development of one of the most important functions l that q modern government has to dis charge as well as in nabng clear the
 need of an additional branch of general i education in the matter of hygiene of l the home and the indIvidtial
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