The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-04-24
DIR. EAVES DECLARES
POVERTY MAIN CAUSE
OF TUBERCULOSIS
Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand In
fants Die Annually, States Miss
Knipp in Address-Wyman De-
clares Little Being Done by
Alabama in Fight
THURSDAY, 10 A. NJ.
T" nDIsNT


oductory 10 minutes, DR.. J.
H. Phillips, superintendent Bir-
mingham public schools.
"The Delinquent Child 20 min
utes: THE Juvenile Court" Judge
S. D. Murphy, jefferson county Ju-
venile court.
schools and Reformatories,' 20
minutes Mrs. r. d. Johnston, pres
ident Alabama Boys Industrial
school
.'Education," 10 minutes, Hon. II.
]. Willingham, state superintend-
ent of education.
Vocational Education" 2b min
utes. DR.. c. c. Thach. president
Alabama Polytechnic institute.
THURSDAY, 2 P. M.
"Penology." 20 minutes, Judge
w. H. Thomas. chairman, Mont
gomery.
"JaiIs.' 80 minutes, DR. William H.
Oates, state prison inspector.
'rhe Long and Short Term Con-
Wet" 30 minutes. DIR. e. Stage
Within, general secretary national
committee on prison labor.
THE 1ndeterminate Sentence 30
minutes; "The Discharged prison
err Isadore Shapiro, Birmingham.
THURSDAY, 7:30 p. NJ
"'rhe New Social Conscience 10
minutes, Judge N. B. Feagin, chair
man, Birmingham.
industrial Insurance" (a) En-
ployers' Liability. Cb) Workmen's
compensation, tc) Old Age Pen
sions. 40 minutes. Frank J. Hayes.
vice president United Mine Work
ers America.
Housing Reform" (a) The Rented
- House and Health, OBJ The Owners
Opportunity. 40 minutes, John ibid
er, field secretary National Hous-
ing association, New York.
THE Social Evil" 40 minutes,
Judge c. G. Roe, ex-secretary
American Vigilance association.
1T Is a matter of sociologic concern
more of late than ever before. thai
abnormal exhibitions of psychic OF
mental deficiencies and defects are in
creasing in the country more rapidly
than the population declared Dr. j
T. Searcy, superintendent of the state
hospital for the insane. in striking
paper read yesterday before the Ala
bama Sociological congress now in ses-
sion at the city hall. Not only arc
insane persons increasing but all grades
of psychic deficiency and effectiveness
are multiplying,Y he continued.
I'm the schools there Is an increas-
ing number of deficient children moi
able to keep up with their classes
and there are increasing numbers OF
the detectives or the nervous immoral
i~ascible. fretful children or the like
among the adults there are more pau
pers and insane. The insane hospitals
have been supplemented with feeble
minded schools, with epileptic colonies
With inebriate reformatories, homes foi
dullards and dotards; still the insane
hospitals are calling for more room.
Infant Mortality
DR.. Searcy spoke to the afternoon ses-
sion of the congress yesterday and there
We're other notable speakers at the other
two meetings of the body. Miss Julia c
Lathrop, chief of the recently created
children's bureau at Washington, told oil
the workings of her organization, its aims
and the work that it was doing She
took up the subject of infant mortality
briefly and showed the unnecessary waste
of human life that the bureau hoped to
prevent.
As to the purpose and the work of the
bureau, Miss Lathrop said:
I'VE wished to know how many babies
had been born in the community in a
given year and to trace through every
case to find out whether the child hac
survived or not. We wanted to know the
sort of home to which he had come, the
sort of work the parents did, the kind oi
care they We're able to give him, the kino
of protection the community could give
him. in short we wanted a picture OF
every home into which a child has come
into that town in which we are pursuing
our investigations.
The staff of the bureau, said Miss
Knapp, consisted of 10 workers with about
$4,000 a year to pay running expenses.
25O,000 Infants Die Annually
Miss Gertrude B. Knipp, executive sec
retary of the American Association fol
the Study and Prevention of Infant Nor
tality, who was then introduced, wen,
into more detail as to the deaths of in
fants She declared that 250,O00 died an
nually. large number of the deaths
she contended. were preveptable and tolo
of the work that her association is doing
toward reducing the toll that is taken
annually.
There will be three more sessions oi
the congress, the final meeting taking
place tonight. The reports of the com.
mittees recently appointed to nominate
officers, form a permanent organization
ana the report of the resolutions commit
Tee are expected today. 1t is probable
that the officers of the congress will b,
ramed during the day and that the time
and place for the next meeting of the
congress will also be determined.
Owing to the three rather lengthy
papers that will be presented tonight il
was announced yesterday that the con
gress would convene in the final session
at 7:3O p. m. instead of o'clock al
shown by the programme.
What is regarded as one of the most
interesting sections of the congress viii
be presented this afternoon under the
head of penology with Judge w. II
Thomas of Montgomery In the chair DIR
w. H. Oates. state prison inspector, will
deliver an address ON 'Jafls,' DIR. e. Stagl
Within will tell of the long and short
term convict and Tsadore Shapiro will
speak on 'The Indeterminate Sentence
Morning Session
The proceedings of the congress were
opened yesterday morning shortly aft
10 clock with the section of Health
and Recreation, the Rev. George Fave:
presiding. DIR. Eaves first read a paper
on ''The Church and the Industrial
Order"
He was followed by DR.. B. J.. Wymar
who discussed tuberculosis and the stat,
and county provisions for it's care. II,
declared that the no tubercular patien
should be admitted to county almhouse.
and pointed out that there were bu
four sanitariums in the state: here, II
Mobile Montgomery and Tuscaloosa. DR.
Wyman said that while the state wa,
spending millions for education and 9th
er things very little was being done I,