Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-08
PER|[S To HEALTH
At MANY RESORTS
DR.. w. E. Brown Urges Better
Sanitation at Summer
ing Places.
FACTORY HYGIENE THEME
AT ROCHESTER CONGRESS
Cooperation of Employers Urged by
Speakers Before American Public
Health Association.

|
lions of many summer resorts was pre-
scented by Dr. William Eustis Brown of
York. Me-, in an address before the
American Public Health Association
| yesterday.
| .'Temporary increases of population
| in summer resorts create city condi1
| TONS" he said. Because such con-
| ditions prevail only part of the year
only partial provisions are made for
meeting them. We often find condi-
lions approximating those of the
crowded city with only camp methods
for meeting them. This is true in
spite of the fact that patrons of the
summer resorts pay high prices Tor
their accommodations and should re-
ceiye the greatest amount of health
protection
Dr. Brown pointed out many diff
culties presented in sewering coast re-
sorts, such as the difficulty of access
to the sea, the possibility of polluting
the bathing beaches and the difficulty
of constructing cesspools because of
underground water. He also gave some
attention to the town situated away
used by such town as the overflow
for cesspools and the making of open
sewers. This affects the lowlands at
low water and results in the pollution
of bathing beaches and the injection
| of fish, Holsters and oysters.
Another subject of a similar nature
was also on the days program, THE
Refuse Disposal in Small Towns by
George w. Simons, jr., of Boston.
Protection for Workingmen.
| A central bureau of industrial hy-
giene composed of members of firms
| for the dissemination of knowledge for
their mutual benefit was advocated by
DR.. D. C. Selby of Toledo, Ohio. Dr.
Selby pointed out that many employ
ers are installing departments of hy-
giene, sanitation and accident preven-
ton. Employers of large numbers of
men could afford to do this. but the
| relatively high cost prohibits the en-
ployers of few men from following
this example.
THE functions of commerce club.
or other civic organization, can very
well be broadened to render this serv-
ice. upon a mutual plan, for the en-
service could take form in a separately
organized, yet affiliated, bureau of in
dustrial safety. sanitation and hygiene.
as is now being organized in Toledo.
1.-THE activity of such a bureau would
display itself in educational work, the ex-
change Of information. the making of in
vestigations or surveys and the making
\ of recommendations-in short, anything
| that would increase the efficiency Of the
employee, and lessen the hazard to his
| limbs, health or life.
| by cooperation this bureau would be-
come the local representative of the state
industrial commission or department Of
| labor and the state department of health
in the work Of accidents and occupational
disease prevention.
Low margins of profit now, more
| than ever. compel industrial efficiency.
Compensation acts compel industrial
pei the prevention of occupational dis
eases. These are the economic rea-
sons which justify a bureau of this
| kind But above all. the great reason
is that such a bureau would seek to
conserve the lives and health of indus
trial workers. who now pay a tremen-
dous tribute to toll"
Urges Health Campaign.
AS part of the campaign for main
tenance of health among factory en-
ployes, DIR. W. Irving Clark of Worces-
ter, Mass, urged that employers make
use of the pay envelope as a means of
distribution of good health literature,
interesting the employee in all that per-
tains to his physical welfare.
Every factory should have a special
medical department ulTeCtly lne
superintendent of the board of di-
rectors of the plant, he declared, and a
small hospital equipped for the main
tenance of the efficiency of the workers
comparable with the repair department
for the maintenance of the efficiency
of the machinery.
He urged more thorough medical ex-
aminations of all employees. In addition
to an examination of a man when he
applied for work, DIR. Clark declared
there should be a second examination
two or three weeks after the man had
been at work to ascertain fully his con-
dition.
.'Where it is possible he continued,
cit is advisable to have a follow-up
system by which all men absent from
are looked up in their home and the
cause of their absence ascertained.'
Welcomed by Gov. Whitman.
Gov Whitman spoke at the open
meeting of the association in Conven-
ton Hall here last night. welcoming
the delegates to the state and express
| ing the states ideals for the health of
it's citizens.
| DR.. William T. Sedgwck of the Mas
sachusetts Institute of Technology
| ures in Public Health Work"
| Mai. Gen. William G. Gorgas gave a
! brief eulogy of DIR. Charles j. Finlay,
| who worked with him in sanitation
| work in Cuba and whose death oc-
CURED August 20 OF last year.