South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-01-24
PROMINENT MEN
WILL SPEAK HERE
Announce Program For So
Ciety For Prevention of
tuberculosis.


Programs for the conferences
during the two-day state convention
OF the Indiana Society for the Pre-
vention Of tuberculosis which will
be held here Tuesday and Wednes-
day. Jan. 80 and 81, include talks
by some OF the most prominent
tuberculosis workers in the country
The convention will open at 10.
o'clock on Tuesday morning and will
close with a dinner at the Oliver
hotel at o'clock Wednesday even
ing.
Sessions OF the convention will be
held in the Rotary room of the
Oliver hotel Two luncheons Will
be held on Tuesday noon. one for
nurses attending the convention and
the other for physicians \ dinner
will be given at the hotel at $50
o'clock by the Anti-Tu berculosis
league, the ST. Joseph county branch
Of the Indiana society Wednesday
Moons luncheon will he served at.
the Healthwin hospital at 1890
o'clock
The opening meeting Tuesday
morning win be the annual session
Of the secretaries of branches of the
Indiana society. The minutes of
last years meeting and the report
of the treasurer will be read by
Mrs E. p. Kehrer of Anderson. and
short talk will be given by Prof.
Severance Burrage of Cambridge.
Mass, who has been president of
the society for the past seven years.
The nominating committee will be
appointed at that time. DR. r. G.
Patterson Of Columbus. O.. will talk
on The District Sanitarium Idea
and the address viii he discussed
by Rev. NJ. Kretzman Of Kendall
vile. and Mayor Mcclellan Of Au-
burn Miss Irma Collmer. secretary
Of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. league. will
speak on Secretaries Training
Course"
viii Nominate Officers.
Following the secretaries meeting,
the convention proper will open at
II o'clock with an address Of well
come. Prof Burrage will deliver
his presidential address and a COM
mittee will he named 10 nominate
officers for the state society. The
district chairman will be appointed
at this session
Reports from various committees
Will he heard at the business session
Tuesday afternoon Prof Burrage
will preside at this meeting. One
Of the important reports to be heard
is that of the legislative committee.
i'm which the legislation affecting
tuberculosis will be discussed. The
nominating committee will make its
report Tuesday afternoon.
DR. Victor G. Vaughan of Ann
Arbor. dean Of the University of
Michigan school of medicine. will
deliver an address at s o'clock Tues
day evening. DR. Vaughan formerly
was president of the American
Medical society.
DIR. Henry To Speak.
Home Treatment of Tubercu-
losis' will he the subject Of a talk
by Dr. Alfred Henry. vice president
of the state society. at the opening
session Wednesday morning at 9
o'clock. The address Will be dis
cussed 10y Mrs. +. b. Kehrer and
Mrs. ID. c. Ramsey OF Mt. Vernon.
other talks to be given Wednesday
morning are: THE Reduction of
Tuberculosis i'm Industries" Dr..
Harry Smock, chief surgeon OF
Sears Roebuck &, Co; EXtention of
Community Nursing" Miss Gwy-
nedd Webster of Goshen: The State
Tuberculosis Hospital at Rock
Vile" DR.. c. J. Stephens. medical
director Of the institution; "A Dou-
BILE Work" Miss Charlotte Straszer
of Peru. There will be a discussion
Of the latter subject by DIR T. NJ.
Mueller of Lawrenceburg. Dr. Miller
of Goshen and Miss Mary H. Baird
Of Aurora and Dawrenceburg.
George T.. O'Brien. president of
the sanitarium board of Healthwin
hospital. will speak on Establish
ing a County Sanitarium" at the
Wednesday afternoon meeting. The
talk will be discussed by Or. Eric
hospital at Fort Wayne. and Miss
Mary A. Meyers, secretary of the
Marion county society. T. B. Weth-
crow Of Peru. superintendent of the
Miami county schools, viii talk on
school Health Surveys Mail
Sales in the Red Cross. Seal Cam
paign" will be the subject OF talk
by Miss Mary Ogilvie of Evans
Vile and Edwin L. Rickert super
intendent of the COnnersville
schools will speak on school Sales
on the Seals