The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1913-06-05
NOTED men ON PROGRAM
Many Associations to be Represented
at Great International Congress on
School Hygiene to be Held in Buff
calo in August of this Year.

The Fourth International Congress
on School Hygiene, and the first to be
held in America, at Buffalo, Aug. 20 to
80, according to an announcement OF
the executive committee, will be by far
the most elaborate effort yet made in
this country toward getting the problem
of school hygiene before tie world.
The first International Congress was
held at Nuremberg in 1904, the second
at London in 1907, the third at, Paris
in 1910. Mrs. Mary D. Bradford, super
intendent of the Kenosha schools, is to
be on the program with paper dis
cussing the benefits of the Kenosha Out
Door school.
The objects of this Buffalo Congress
are:
a. To bring together men and women
interested in the health of school chill
dren.
(2) To organize a program of papers
and discussions covering the field of
school hygiene.
(3) TO assemble school exhibit rep
resenting the best that is being done
in school hygiene.
ca To secure commercial exhibit
Of practical and educational value to
school people.
90 To publish the proceedings of this
congress and distribute them to each
nlegal,e
In addition there is a plan on foot to
effect permanent organization for the
purpose of carrying out school hygiene
reforms in all the individual communi
ties in this country, if not all over the
world
One of the interesting features of
the congress will be the presence of
delegates representing the community
interest in school hygiene, including
those appointed by mayors and COVER
nors, by women's clubs, by school
boards, boards of health, by mothers
congresses and charity organization So
cieties and boards of trade. Their help
is being solicited with view of organ
ling the community in campaign of
school hygiene reform.
The program committee announces a
program of two hundred fifty papers
and fifteen symposiums, taking up n.y.
giene from the following points of
view:
I. The hygiene of school buildings,
grounds, material and upkeep.
II. The hygiene of school admins
tration and schedule.
III. Medical, hygienic, and sanitary
supervision in schools.
The contributors to the program make
up notable list of speakers, college
presidents and professors; state, city
and county commissioners of education;
teachers and superintendent of public
schools, medical college professors;
state county and city health officers;
physicians in private practice, engineers
and architects.
Special discussions are being arranged
L.
School Feeding: Arranged by the
committee on school feeding of the
American Home Economies Society.
Oral Hygiene: Arranged by National
Mouth Hygiene Association.
Sex Hygiene: Arranged by the Am
erican Federation Of Sex Hygiene.
Conservation of Vision in School
Children: Arranged by the Society for
the Prevention of Blindness.
Health Supervision of University
Students: Arranged by DR.. Mazyck P.
Ravenel, University of Wisconsin.
School Illumination. Arranged by
the Society of Illuminating Engineers.
Relation Between Physical Education
and School Hygiene: Arranged by the
American Physical Education Associa-
ton.
tuberculosis Among School Children:
Arranged by the Society for the Pre-
,-on+;o, of TuharcuIosis
Physical Education and College Hy
giene: Arranged b. the Society of Di-
rectors Of Physical Education in Col
leges.
The Binet-simon Test: Arranged by
Professor Terman, Stanford University.
The Mentally Defective Child: Ar
ranged by DR.. Henry H. Goddard, Vine