Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-24
AMERICANS LEAD IN
BERLIN CONFERENCE
DELEGATES to White Plague
Congress Expected to Share
Largely in Program.
RECOGNIZED IN VAN
OF WORLDWIDE FIGHT
Maj. Gen. Wood to Find Eminent
and August Company at Ger
man Maneuvers.
gu Correspondence Of The Star.

Foreign Correspondence OF The Star.
BERLIN, August Is. 1913.
Recent progress In the world wide
fight against tuberculosis will be clearly
set forth at the eleventh international
anti-tuberculosis conference, to be held
this year in Berlin from October 30 to
&c One evidence will be the attend
ance. Twenty-eight states will be rep
resented by delegates. and although no
cure" for tuberculosis can be report
ed, encouraging progress will be re-
corded toward the control of the disease
by natural restorative means, food and
fresh air, and by modern methods of
sanitation, disinfection and isolation.
DR.. F. +. friedman has not applied
for place on the program and, accord
ing to one member of the committee
of arrangements, none would have been
given him had he done SO. the German
experts being more than ever skeptical
and inSlstent on the submission Of the
Friedman serum to the conventional
tests before taking the doctors pre-
tentiOns seriously. The American WIS.,
itors to the conference will, however.
have opportunity to see the patients
on whom Dr. friedman based his
original claims OF success. eighteen
months to two years after treatment
have been borne out by time.
Aside from the social and business
sessions. the program shows reports
, and discussions under the general topics
Of Tuberculosis and Mankind. 1.-The
Surgical Treatment of tuberculosis
The Role Played by Life Insurance in
the Struggle Against Tuberculosis"
professional Schools for Children
Predisposed to Consumption" and an
afternoon devoted to miscellaneous
topics.
Handle tuberculosis Successfully.
American delegates are expected to
contribute largely to the program, the
United States being admittedly in the
lead in many respects in the success
full handling of tuberculosis problems
In Europe, although the Scandinavian
countries. particularly Sweden, have
scored the greatest results in COM
batting the white plague. Germany is
considered to show the highest degree
of organization.
The delegates will find that Germany
has made substantial progress since the
first Of these conferences in 1852 in re-
ducing the terrors OF consumption. From
the reports OF 34S cities of more than
$1,000 population each. it appears that
the yearly death rate from tuberculosis
was reduced from o2.28 per 10000 popu-
lation in 1905 10 11.3O in 1911 For the
whole kingdom of Prussia the rate for
1912 was only 14.49 The reduction has
been particularly rapid in hospitals and
homes for consumptives having dropped
within sixteen years from 81 to IL. In
penitentiaries and jails, formerly regard
ed as breeding centers for tuberculosis
diseases, the mortality is now only about
one-sixteenth of what il was some If
teen years ago.
Military Women at Maneuvers.
Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood. who will at
tend this years grand or kaiser ma
neuvers i'm Si!esia September 5 to 10 at
the personal invitation of Emperor Will
liam, will find himself in eminent and
august company. the emperor's other
guests including Gen. Polio. chief of the
general staff of the Italian army: Gen.
Ramon Ruiz. chief Of the general STAFF
of the army of the Argentine Republic: