The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1916-03-24
LARGE CROWDS TURN OUT
TO HEAR THE ADDRESSES
Meeting Will Come to a Close
Today With Two Sessions, to
Which the People of the City
Are invited.

The fourth annual meeting of the
southeastern Sanitary association was
convened in the parlors of the Ogle-
thorpe hotel in this city yesterday aft
ernoOn. Prominent medical men from
Georgia, North and South Carolina and
Florida were in attendance. A large
number of local people were present
and the several addresses during the
afternoon were greatly enjoyd.
Th meeting was called to order by
President C. w. Coker of Hartsville,
S. c. The address of welcome was de-
livered by DR.. j. Sidney Roberts, mem
Der OF city council in the absence of
Mayor Hopkins. Dr. Roberts extend
ed to the visitors a very cordial vel
come to Brunswick The response
was made by DR.. Smith, secretary of
the association, who also told of the
organizations and its object Dr. Smith
said that the association was formed
four years ago in Freenville, S. c., that
southern workers might discuss prob
lens peuliar to their surroundings He
told of the need of the association in
TIE way of finances and publicity.
DR.. James A. Hayne of Columbia,
state health officer of South Carolina,
gave most interesting report on THE
Result of One Year of the Model Sta
tistics law in South Carolina" show
ing the excellent work that can be ac-
complished where birth registration is
enforced.
State Superintendent Of Shoots NJ.
L. Britain was the next speaker on
the program and he gave a most inter
esting talk touching upon the value
school architecture, supervised play
and nature study.
Jas. P. Faulkner, executive secretary
of the Raoul Foundation, delivered a
most interesting lecture on Health by
Indirection." Mr.. Faulkner spoke of
health by sanitation and health by
normal living. He told of the opinion
OF the majority who think that health
has to be bought instead of being lived.
He also touched upon sanitation
through the schools and the inspiring
of the child with the sense of the
beautiful.
Last Nights Meeting.
The Grand opera house was filled to
capacity last night for the lectures and
moving pictures that indicated warm
interest in public health work on the
part of the citizenship of Brunswick.
&c c1Iro1u inc tifi a hln in
a telling of pride" said DR.. w. r.
Lynch manager OF the department of
welfare and health at Spray. N. c., in
his address before the association
on the subject "Thc School Nurse a
Factor in Public Health and Santa
ton
perhaps in no section of the en-
tire country has greater gains been
made in public health and sanitation
than here during recent years. And
vet with these splendid achievements
list behind us, we are confronted with
the fact that much yet remains to be
done. Great fields of opportunity, each
with it's peculiar need, stretch out be-
fore us; we dare not even here pause"
DIR. Lynch expressed his apprecia-
ton of the value of such a gathering
as is being held here this week and
spoke in glowing terms of the pos
sibilities of the achievements that may
come from them. Attention to the
health of children, he says, is one OF
the strategic points for the conserva-
ton of public health in the south that
has scarcely been used heretofore
He particularly liked the idea OF car
rying the work into the schools.
AmonS many suggestions offered re
garding the rare benefits nurse car
be TO public health officials. he re
ferred to her cooperation with the
nhvsicians in examining the children
watching for results of measures
adopted in restoring health and pre-.
venting disease. much Of which work
can be done by her in small commun
tiles where no regular physician is EN-
ployed. Being always on the ground.
nurse can be great aid along the prac
tical side in seeing to it that measures