The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1913-08-25
PROMOTE HYCIENIC
WORK IN SCHOOLS
Civic Welfare Workers of World
to Meet in Buffalo

Buffalo, \. Y, Aug, 25.-The fourth
international Congress on School Hy-
giene. for which preparations have
been making for many months, was
opened in this city today with an at
tendance remarkable for its size and
representative character. While the
majority of the delegates as was to
he expected, come from the United
States and Canada, there are many
and eminent representatives here from
the nations of Europe. Noted educat-
ors, scientists. physicians, health Of
ficers and civic welfare workers to Il
total running into the hundreds have
registered For an entire week they
will exchange views and listen To pap
ers and addresses on every important
phase of work having To do with i'm
proving the health ana efficiency of
school children.
The present meeting is the fourth
triennial session of the International
Congress of School Hygiene. The con-
eress was organized at Nuremberg in
1904. The second meeting was held
Paris in 1910. Twenty-Five nations
nave membership on the permanent
international committee of the con-
sress.
Discuss All Phases Of Subject
Among the topics that viii be con-
sidered b> the congress during the
week are the following: The relation
\ n
ditions; rural school hygiene, school
children as carriers of disease; the
relation of athletics to health; eye
diseases among school children; the
hygiene OF play. the hygiene of the
defective child; the relation Of spinal
curvature and flat feet To the health
of the child.
Numerous papers To be presented
hy experts will treat OF open air
schools, lunch rooms. drinking facil-
titles, village schools summer camps,
rest rooms. school architecture, the
prevention Of cpiGemics. school nurses
and school decorations.
The subject of "Open Air schools
will be given particular attention.
Speakers from numerous cities VIII
deal not only with the work of the
open air schools. but also with the er-
feet OF the open air treatment upon
the pupils.
SYNOPSIS on Sex Hygiene" will
be conducted under the auspices of the
American Federation for Sex Hygiene.
Prominent among the speakers who
will he heard are United States Com
| missioner of Education Philander L.
Knox. DR.. Hugh Cabot of the Massa-
chusetts General Hospital, President
William r. Foster of Reed College. and
! DIR. Thomas NJ. Ballet of New York
| University.
Noted Educators Present.
The American Physical Education
! Association will conduct a symposium
on "Physic Education in the Public
schools" Tuberculosis Among
School Children" will be discussed un-
der the auspices of the Society for
the study and Prevention Of Tuber-
culosis. The Society for the Preven'
ton of Blindness will conduct a SYM
postum on the Conservation of Vision
| in School Children" and the lllumin-
ating Engineering Society will con-
duet a similar discussion on the sub
icct of school illumination.
The president of the congress ana
the presiding officer at the general
sessions is Dir. Charles w. Eliot. pres
ident emeritus of Harvard University.
The vice. presidents are Dr. William
II Welch. the great pathologist of
Johns Hopkins University and DIR.
Henry l.. Walcott, chairman of the
massachusetts State Board of Health.
Many educators. medical men and
health officials of prominence are in
cmded among the honorary vlce-pres-
idents of the congress. Among them
are Sir James Grant, one of the fore
most representatives of the medical
profession i'm Canada. DIR. Rupert Blue.
head of the United States Public
Health and Marine Hospital Service,
DR.. Abraham jacob. president of the
American Medical Association, DIR.
David starr Jordan, president of l.e-
land stanford University DIR. Theo-
bald smith. of the Harvard Medical
Schools, DR. II. NJ. Bracken, cfiei Oh
the Department of Hygiene of Mexico
The city of Buffalo has generously
contributed $40. 900 for the expenses of
the congress and to provide entertain =
ment for the delegates. The local COM
mittee has arranged for Il series oi
social events. including ball. banquet
mncheons and receptions. There VIII
be- daily automobile tours of the city
land excursion trips To the great in
Idus,riai plants and to the scenic won
ders of Niagara Falls.