The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-05-06
|DR, GORGAS TO SPEAK
/ At LEXINGTON MEETING
Famous Sanitarian and Other Nota-
bles to Address Virginia Public
Health Association at Meet
ing Next Week,

Especial to The Richmond virginian.
/ Lexington. Va, May 5.-Dr. j. W.
-. Pollard today gave out the final
oraIt OF the program of the coming
meeting of the Virginia Public Health
Association to be held May 1912 and
announced that among the distin-
gaisned speakers to address Virginia
sanitarians would be General william
~. Gorgas. surgeon-general of the
United States Army, and Miss Julia
{. Lathrop, director of the Federal
children's bureaus
DR.. Gorgas. who will deliver the
principal address on the evening OF
May II. is to be introduced by Gen.
eral r. W. Nichols, superintendent OF
the Virginia Military Institute and will
be one of the honor guests at re-
ception rendered In Carnegie Library
that evening by the president and
faculty of Washington and Lee. Miss
Lathrop will speak on the afternoon
of the same day. her topic being, $50
ciai Aspects of Infant Mortality"
Health Officers ON Program.
Others who are on the program
are DIR, K. c. Levy. chief health off,
Ger OF Richmond, DR.. p. s. Schench,
health officer of Norfolk. DR.. w. b.
Foster, of Roanoke: DIR. c. C. Hudson,
of Danville: DIR. Reid White. Colonel
Jones, Professor d. c. Humphreys, DIR.
c. II. Davidson, DR.. H. d. Campbell.
DIR. J. L. Howe and Miss Rosa F.
Boley, Of Lexington, DIR. Ennion G..
williams and several of his assistants
of the State Board of Health and
many other prominent speakers
Captain w. w. Baker. of Hillsboro,
one of the pioneers in public health
work in the state. Ia to make the
- u = A
his subject being. The Relation of the
Layman to Public Health"
The convention. DR.. Pollard reports.
promises to be one of the most largely
attended and certainly the most in
teresting in the history of the asso-
citation. Invitations have been sent
not only to health officers. physicians
and registrars of vital statistics. but
to a large number of private citizens
and laymen who are Interested In
public health work. The last-named
are welcomed as members at the as
ISOLATION and are expected TO be pres
emit in large numbers. A strong con-
tingent of visiting nurses from the
various cities and towns with organ
ICED health departments are also
looked for.
As a preliminary to the meeting Of
the association, DR. Howard r. Kelly.
of Baltimore, a physician of inter-
national distinction, who Is vitality in
terested In public health and social
work, will deliver an address Sunday
afternoon The various social features
of the convention. which include trip
to Natural Bridge. have been arranged
in such a manner as not TO conflict
with the business of the association.
To Open Next Monday.
The formal opening of the con-
vention will take place at p. NJ. Mon
day evening. May 10. Members ana
visitors are urged by DIR. Pollard TO
be present at that time or to arrive
not later than Tuesday morning. Those
who cannot attend but a single day are
advised to come on Tuesday, the nth.
as the program of that day includes
not only the addresses of General
Gorgas and Miss IAthrop, but paper
by DR. w. 8. Rankin, secretary OF the
North Carolina State Board of Health.
and a number of others