The Washington herald., 1922-10-15
DELEGATES VIEW
EXHIBITSOf WORK
| IN CHILD HYGIENE
Secretary Hoover Contin-
ues as Head of Associa-
ton for Another Year.

Secretary Of Commerce Herbert
Hoover will continue as president
Of the American Child Hygiene AS
sociation, having been elected yes
terday by the board of directors.
DR.. Livingston Farrand, president
elect, declined to assume office at
this time In view Of the associations
reorganization plans. He remains
president-elect for 1924.
Other officers Of the association
who will continue in o ce are:
DR.. Fred L. Adair. of Minneapolis.
and Miss Mary Arnold. of New York
City, vice presidents; DR.. Richard
M. Smith, of Boston. secretary: and
Corcoran Thorn. of Washington.
treasurer.
DR.. Van Ingen, Chairman.
The executive committee is COM
posed of DR.. Philip Van Ingen. Of
New York. chairman: DR.. Adair.
Miss Arnold, DR.. Farrand. DIR. John
A. Foote, Secretary Hoover. Of
Washington; DR.. Clifford G. Grules.
OF Chicago; DR.. s. McHamill. of
philadelphia; DR.. William Palmer
Lucas, Of San Francisco; Miss wini-
fred Rand, of Boston: DIR. Anna e.
Rude, of Washington: DIR. III. L. X.
Shaw. of Albany. n. Y; and DIR.
Richard NJ. Smith. Miss Julia C.
Lathrop. former head of the Chill
dren's Bureau of the Department of
Labor. was appointed an honorary
member of the association.
The association closed Its lthlr-
teenth annual convention at Conti-
mental Memorial Hall yesterday. Be
fore adjourning delegates to the
convention viewed exhibitions of
what is being done for children and
mothers in and near the District of
Columbia.
shown in Pictures.
A motion picture was shown at
the Army Medical Museum of the
Arlington County. Va, health CEN
ter demonstration. one of about
fifty in the United States carried on
through the cooperation of - the
United States Public Health Serv-
ice. county authorities and State
health boards. In Arlington Coun-
ty a health bureau is directing the
work of nurses. sanitary inspectors
and clinics, and Is carrying on
school hygiene work and tubercu-
losis prevention. DR.. l.. L. .Lums-
den, of the United States. Public
Health Service. explained the pic
lures.
Delegates taken to the Children's
Hospital were shown the cubicle
system Of isolation-a measure
taken to prevent the spread of con-
tagious disease among the little
patients by placing them in indi-
vidual rooms of glass. The welfare
work Of the hospital, which Is ex-
pected TO open next week with a
dietetic center, where the mothers
of well children" will be given sd.
vice on the care of their little
ones. also was shown and explained
to the delegates.
Maternal Mortality Increases.
A medical session at which DR..
Frank Leech. of Washington. pre-
sided, was held yesterday after
noon in the auditorium of the Dis
trict OF Columbia Medical Society.
DR.. Borden s. Veeder, Of st. Louis;
DR.. Edgar J. Huenekens, of Mime
apolis; DIR. william H. Park, of
New York City; DR.. John Hart
Davis. of Cleveland. and DR.. Ciar-
ence J. Grieves, Of Baltimore, dis
cussed medical subjects relating to
child hygiene.
Maternal mortality Is increasing,
despite the attention which has
been given the subject in the past,
DIR. W. T. Bell, of Toronto, Canada,
told the association during the
morning session. Under the present
system of death registration, he
said, figures on the actual rate of
maternal mortality are difficult. to
obtain even when available and a
large error occurs because some of
the physicians prefer to report a
death due to almost any cause
rather than puerperal sepsis. or any
other cause of maternal mortality" :"