Arizona republican., 1913-08-25
Fourth International Con gress on School Hygiene Will Begin Tomorrow at Buffalo With Representa- tive Attendance
IN SESSION
 FOR ONE WEEK
Numerous Papers Will Be Presented by Experts Treating on Open-Air Schools, Summer Camps and Modern Rest Rooms
Especial to The Republican,

BUFFALO, N Y. Aug. 24-The Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene, for which prepara- tons have been making for many months. will open in this city tomor- row with an attendance remarkable for it's size and representative char acter. While the majority of the delegates. as was to be expected. come from the United States and Canada, there are many and eminent representatives here from the na-
 uons Of Europe. Noted educators scientists, physicians, health officers and civic welfare workers to a total running into the hundreds have regis
 tered. For an entire week they will
 exchange views and listen to papers
 and addresses on every important phase
 of work having to do with improving
 the health and efficiency of school
 children.
 The present meeting is the fourth
 triennial session of the International
 Congress on School Hygiene. The
 congress was organized at Nuremberg
 in 1904. The second meeting was held in London in 1908 and the third
 in Paris in 1910. Twenty-Five na-
 tions have membership on the per
 manent international committee of the
 congress.
 Among the topics that will he con
 sidered by the congress during the
 week are the following The relation
 between school hygiene and home con
 ditions; rural school hygiene, school children as carrier of disease, the re- lation of athletics to health, eye dis
 eases among school children, the hy
 giene of the defective child, and the relation of spinal curvature and flat feet to the health of the child. Numerous papers to be presented by experts will treat of open air schools. lunch rooms, drinking fla cilities, village schools. summer camps,
 rest rooms, school architecture, the prevention of epidemics. school nurses. and school decorations.
 The subject of "Open Air Schools" will be given particular attention.
 Speakers from numerous cities will deal not only with the work of the open air schools, but also with the effect of the open air treatment upon the pupils.
 A symposium on Sex Hygiene" will be conducted under the auspices of the American Federation for Sex Hygiene Prominent among the speakers who will be heard are United States Com missioner of Education Philander P. Knox, Dr Hugh Cabot of the Massa- chusetts General Hospital, President William T Foster of Reed College and Dr. Thomas M Ballet of New York university.
 The American Physical Education Association will conduct q symposium on Physical Education in the Public Schools" "Tuberculosis Among School Children" will be discussed under the auspices of the Society for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis. The i Society for the Prevention of Blind ness will conduct a symposium on l the "COnservation of Vision in School ] Children" and the Illuminating Engi- neering Society will conduct similar discussion on the subject of school 1 illumination.
 The president of the congress and 1 the presiding officer at the general l sessions is pr. Charles w. Eliot, presi- i dent emeritus of Harvard university
 The vice presidents are pr. William H. Welch, the great pathologist of Johns l Hopkins University, and Dr. Henry r. Walcott, chairman of the Massachu- setts State Board of Health. l Many educators, medical men and | l cluded among the honorary Vice-presl- l dents of the congress. Among them | are Sir James Grant, one of the | foremost representatives of the medl- cal profession in Canada; Dr. Rupert Blue. head of tpe United States Pub l lie Health and Marine Hospital SerV- l ice; Dr. Abraham Jacobi, president or
 the American Medical Association; pr. | David Starr Jordan, president or Le- land Stanford university; pr. Theobald | smith of the Harvard Medical school; !; pr. H. M. Bracken, secretary ot the 1 Minnesota State Board of Health, and Dr. M. Uribey Troncoso, chief Of the Depa rtrnent of Hygiene of Mexico.
 l The city of Buffalo has generously contributed $40,,00O for the expenses
 of the congress and to provide enter ! tainment for the delegates. The local
 committee has arranged for serles
 of social events, including a ball. oan-
 ouet. luncheons and receptions. There | will be daily automobile tours of the city and excursion trips to the great industrial plants and to the scenic
 wonders of Niagara Falls.