Evening star., 1922-05-05
ENOUGH HOSPITALS
FOR TUBERCULAR
Present Institutions Declared
Sufficient to Care for
Soldiers.

Col. Forbes Of the Veterans Bureau
has been advised by committee Of
| medical experts that no more tuber-
| culosis hospitals are needed to take
care Of soldiers beyond the institu
bureau.
This recommendation is contained
in a report of special committee,
headed by DR.. E. r. Baldwin of
Saranac Lake, N. Y, all members OF
which are members of the National
tuberculosis Association. in session
here at the First Congregational
Church.
The formal report, presented to
Director Forbes last night. declared
that in the belief of the members of
the special committee the peak load"
of care for tuberculosis soldiers
throughout the United States has been
| reached. and that no more hospitals
will be needed beyond those already
in charge Of the Veterans Bureau, TO
whom the President recently turned
over the thirty-nine public health
service hospitals.
The committee recommended that
the Veterans Bureau to develop its own
post graduate training course for
physicians. as it fears the hospitals
treating tutlercular cases will be short
Of trained personnel The National
to adopted resolutions favoring this
plan today.
The governments present scheme of
rating of disabled soldiers, as used by
the Veterans Bureau, was approved in
the report Of the committee. Besides.
DR.. Baldwin, the other members OF
the committee are DIR. Charles S.
Rockhill. Cincinnati; DR.. James Alex
ander Miller. president of the Ma
tional tuberculosis Association: DR..
]. w. Petit. Chicago; DR.. Leroy Dunn.
Asheville, N. c.; DR.. H. A. Pattison,
New York city. and DR.. D. r. Lyman.
Wallingford, Conn.
Technical Papers Read.
Scores of technical papers were in
process of delivery today at sectional
meetings of the eighteenth annual
meeting of the National tuberculosis
Association. which will end its ses-
sions tomorrow. Papers were read
before the pathological. nursing, elm
ical, sociological and other sections.
o'clock this afternoon. Among the
papers at afternoon sessions is one
on THE Mal-nutrition of Children"
by DR.. n. P. Emerson Of Boston. The
National Conference of tuberculosis
Secretaries holds its annual dinner at
o'clock tonight at Rauscher's. when
a Symposium will be. held on stand
ardization OF personnel and group in
| surance.
Following section meetings tomor-
row morning President Harding is to
receive the delegates at 1 o'clock at
| the White House. The last general
meeting win be at 11:45 o'clock to-
morrow morning in the church audi
! torium.
Community Program.
community program for exposed
| and tuberculous children. to be con-
sidered at tomorrow meeting of the
i sociological section, is of peculiar
| ton tuberculosis Association.
The local society has special COM
mittee, at the request Of the Count
ell of Social Agencies. considering
| this general topic. DIR. W. D. Tewks-
1 bury is chairman of the committee,
/, more than $50 local children dag
4 nosed as actively tubercular.
! Reduction Of the death rate in the
United States was detailed by DR..
| Victor c. Vaughn, dean of the med
| ical department of the University OF
| He emphasized the Importance OF
! combating preyentable diseases by
| organized effort, declaring that all
such effort is reflected in a lowered
death rate. He stressed the relation
of malnutrition to such diseases.
| Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming
Of the United States public health
service told of the Importance OF
| fullest cooperation between govern
ment, institutions and volunteer
health societies.
DR.. Livingston Farrand, president
of Cornell University, declared that
| unbelievable numbers of children in
Europe are starved and underfed,
and that this physical condition will
affect the next generation severely.
DR.. William F. Snow presided.