The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-04-17
DOCTORS OF STATE
MEET AT FLORENCE
66th Annual Convention of AS
sOciatiOn Opens.
GET A WARM WELCOME
Address by President Weston.
Papers Read-Banquet and
Automobile Ride.

Florence Special to Charleston
News and Courier, April 15.-The
South Carolina Medical Association
met here this morning in the first
general session of the sixty-sixth an
nual convention, with about one
hundred and fifty visiting physicians
on the register. The sessions were
held in the auditorium of the graded
school. The Rev. r. T. Gillespie
opened the meeting with prayer.
Mayor w. R. Barringer extended a
welcome on the part of the city, re-
ferring to the previous visits of the
association here and the growth Of
the work of tn association, express
sing the pleasure that Florence felt
In having the doctors again visit this
city. He extended an invitation to
the association to visit the new city
crematory, and complimented the
state and the local boards OF health
on their efficient and earnest work
for the practical good OF the com
munity.
DR.. B. G.. Gregg, president OF the
County Medical Society, expressed
the pleasure that it gave to the doc
tors of Florence to have the associa-
tion here, referred to the changes
that have taken place in the associa-
ton and In the county society since
last Florence had the pleasure of en-
tertaining the association and to the
earnestness of purpose of the asso-
citation.
ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT.
These addresses were responded to
by DR.. j. II. Miller OF Cross Hill, who
complimented Florence and its medi-
cal society, saying that the name
and fame OF the city and its doctors
was widely known. and that 1t was
an inspiration to meet here.
Messrs. Barringer and Gillespie Of
Florence and Mr.. Richard l. Man
ming OF Sumter, who had come in
during the session, were accorded
the privileges of the floor and invit-
ed to remain. The invitation OF the
mayor OF Florence to visit the Gre
matory was accepted for 4 O'Clock in
the afternoon, he promising that au-
tomobiles should be In waiting to
take them TO the place.
The az ass OF President william
Weston was made on "The Mother
and Child" This he considered as
the great subject before the medical
men OF the age in all countries, that
the public was to be taught that the
Ills of children and childbirth we're
mainly subject to remedy, and are
not necessary evils. The RESPONSE
bility cannot he avoided; the unfit
=, must be eliminated, and that elimi-
|nation must be through constructive
work for the race, healthier and bet
ter parents and better conditions
surrounding childhood. he said. It
was to be accomplished, he declared,
by safeguarding marriage and child
birth by the establishment OF infiu-
form OF the class that ignored its
moral responsibilities, and which cul-
tivated physical infirmities in wo-
men. destroyed religious influences
and made for race degeneracy or
race suicide. 1t was not a new prob
lem. Julius Caesar had been obliged
{ to rebuke the Roman matrons for
caring more for pet dogs than for
children, and Christianity had
brought about the first reform In I'm
fanticide, he said. and that physi-
clans were peculiarly fitted to work
for the solution OF this problem.
He reviewed very Interestingly the
progress OF the work for the children
in the world and for maternity as a
study, the development OF the chill
dren's hospital ana the chairs in
medical schools devoted to teaching
these things as a science, of the
great doctors who had devoted their
lives to the work.
People must be taught, he said, 10
= no longer accept the high death rate
of children as a visitation OF I'm
scrutable Providence. but as the
violation of some laws of nature and
the carelessness of man.
PAPER BY DIR. INQUIRE.
q The first paper read before the as
y, Sciation was one by the distinguish
ed DIR. Stuart Mcclure OF Richmond.