Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-13
HANDICAP
NOT BAR TO WORK
Scientists Meet Here to Perfect
Plans for Training Of Dis
z abIed Patients
BOON FOR WAR-WRECKED

Two hundred men and woman many
of national distinction in the fe,ds of
medicine and social service will meet at
| the fourth annual conference of the
| National Society for the Promotion of
occupational Therapy at the Hotel Rit.
tenhouse today. A banquet tomorrow
evening VIII close the conference. Mrs.
the society. "
One OF the features of the sessions will
be the consideration of a "workshop
for the handicapped' which Ia soon 70
ne opened in the city to continue the
treatment Of civilian hospital patients
with occupational therapv.
=, on the program are Colonel Robert
~, ~. Maddox; senior surgeon. Federal
d1rector public health Surgeon General
n. =. cummings. Of the United States
pupic nea,th service: DR.. Thomas Sal
n,on. medical director Of the national
fTommlttee T mI.', Tor mental hygiene: DR.. s.
| ". Devlin, medical superintendent 81.
Jean de Dieu Hospital, Montreal Can.
ada Or. Herbert Hall. Devereux Hall.
Marblehsad. Mass; Miss Beatrice
Lindburg, director of occupational
therapy,. for the state of Minnesota
sanatoria; DR.. W. r. Dunton, Towson,
Md. and Horatio Pollock, Pb. n,
statistician for the New York State
Hospital Commission.
IL Is to the Judgment Of sucb exnerts
aS these that Miss Florence W. Fulton
dean OF the Philadelphia School of Oc.
cunational Therapy. 2131 Spruce street.
VIII submit her plan for installing a
workshop In connection with the insti :
tuition. Literally it will be d continu.
a,on a.on, ehh'e Tor those who have expert
enced me benefit Of the "cure BY occu :
pation in the various hospitals where
occmpational thernpv has been installed.
Ehssiclans and surgeons will main :
.un 4Verslght OF the work. and the
convalescents who have overcomo tbe
physical handicaps imposed by disease
through the medium of gentle craft work
can continue the treatment nftcr leaving
the hospital. A shell shocked soldier,
,ed by MS mother to the schoo! in the
nope that some such treatment might be
given inspired Miss Fulton's decision
to found a workshop. ''''''
How greatly occupationaI therapy
has aided the sick. will be presented
at the conference from MANY angles by
experts. DR.. Samuel W. Hamilton.
medical director of the Philedelnhia
Hospital for Mental Diseases, viii tnjk
on The Importance of Occupaitonnl
Iherrapy." DR.. Frederick Brush, of the
Burke Foundation, will speak or
Heart Disease and Work" Voca
tional training for tubcrculous patients
ana accounts of work with consumptive
patients will be given by Mrs. CIyd,
NJ. Myers, New York Tuberculosi,
Association, and Miss Lindburg. direc
tor OF therapy in st. Paul.
A special symposium from the Belle
vue Hospital, New York. will be lee
on Tuesday evening by Miss Marian
Taber, with DR.. ]. W. Brannan, presi
dent of the board of trustees, DR.
George O'Hanlon. general medica
superintendent. Henry c. Wright. ,
trustee. and Miss Ruth Morgan. chair
man of the United Relief Societies.
An interesting exhibit compiled from
all the national work done in publ,
health hospitals is being arranged il
Washington and will be shown here il
charge OF Miss Harriet Robson. Mis-
Alice York, of Detroit, one of the mos
expert tin toy makers in the country
will send new collection. and tht
famous experimental workshop at
Devereux Mansion. Marblehead, Mass,
will send objects illustrating new occu
pations.
The federal public health service
through Surgeon General Cummings
has ordered the aides in the fifty Six
public health hospitals to come here foy
the convention. Some will travel from,
California. and all will appear in uni
form at ths sessions, where they will act
as ushers.
Colonel Edward Martin, state com
missioner of health will welcome the
delegates officially for the state OF
Pennsylvania. An interesting socia'
program has been prepared by Mrs. II
Gordon McCouch. Of st. Martini s.
chairman Of the Pennsylvania Society
for the Promotion of Occupationa,
Therapy. DR.. G. Lincoln Furbush
director of the Department of Public
Health, and Mrs. Furbush, will enter