The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-03-22

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nosha, one of the directors-at-large of
the league. has been appointed as
delegate.
How can the lifetime of the race be
further lcngthened-how much and how
sooD-will be the theme of all of the
addresses of an entire day at the fifth
eth anniversary meeting of the Nation
al Conference of Social Work to be held
in Washington, May 1928. What pre-
ventive medicine and public health
work have accomplished in the past
fifty years and what further progress
toward increasing the average duration
of human life may be reasonably be
expected in the next two decades will
be discussed by physicians and health
workers of national and international
reputation.
Homer Folks, president of the con-
ference, who will preside at the semi
centennial, made public today the pro-
gram of the committee on health, which
has been arranged for Thursday, May
18th, by a committee headed by DR..
Livingston Farrand, president of Cor
nell University, Ithaca, N. Y, and
former chairman of the central COM
mittee of the American Red Cross.
DR.. Hermann M. Biggs, commissioner
of health of New York State. who
served on the Rockefeller foundation
tuberculosis commission in France, will
deliver an address at the evening SEES
sion before the entire conference on
practical Detectives in Health Work
During the Next Twenty Years" Dr.
Farrand's address will be on Social
Work and Health Programs"
At the morning general session,
Disease as a Factor in Poverty will
be the subject of an address by Bailey
B. Burritt, general director of the New
York Association for Improving the
Condition of the Poor. Prof. R. E.
Chaddock of Columbia University, New
Y ork, will speak on Health, a Nation
al Economic Asset" Dr. Wade Wright
of the medical school of Harvard Uni
versity will speak on Minimum Stand
ards for Health in Industry" DR.,
Charles j. Hastings. commissioner of
health of Toronto, Canada, will preside
at this session.
"The Importance of public health as
a preventive of poverty and delinquen-
cy has become generally recognized"
said President Folks today, "and the
notable program developed by DR.. Far
rand will seek to indicate what the
next practical steps are in applying
effectively the knowledge of preventive
medicine and public health administra-
ton which is now available"
In addition to the two general meet
ings of the entire conference, six group
meetings on health will be held. One
of the most important addresses at
these group meetings will be on Gun
occupied Fields in Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention" by DR.. Wat
son S. Rankin, secretary of the state
board of health of North Carolina. The
topics of other group meetings will in
clude Health Demonstrations" "Hos-
pital Social Service and Health" $50
cial Aspects of Medical Research" $50
cial Problems in Rural Communities"
and "The Growth of the Social Point
of View"
Dr. Lee K Frankel Of the Metropoli-
tan Life Insurance company, New York,
will deliver an address on "The Theory
of Health Demonstrations" John A.
Kingsbury, secretary of the Milbank
Memorial Fund, will discuss the health
and tuberculosis demonstrations which
have been started by the fund as a
fve-year experiment in a rural area
consisting of Cattaraugus county, New
York, and an urban area comprising the
city of Syracuse, N. Y. Reports will
be given or the birmingham, Mass,
health demonstration, by DR.. Donald B.
Armstrong; on the Mansfield, O., health
demonstration, by DR.. Walter F. Brow
Of Mansfeld; on the East Harlem, N.
Y, health center, by Kenneth D. Wild
demer; the Mulberry health center
demonstration conducted by the Asso
citation for Improving the Condition of
the Poor in the Mulberry section of
New York City, by John c. Gebhardt;
and the health demonstrations of the
Commonwealt Fund by Courtenay Din
widdie of Washington.
At the session on Social Health
Problems in Rural Communities, J. c.
Logan of Atlanta, Ga, manager of the
southern division Of the American Red
Cross, and Miss Jane Van De Vrede of
that division, will speak on Rural So
cial Work and Health" Eugene r.
Jones, executive secretary Of the Ma
tional Urban League, will discuss "The
Negroes Struggle for Health" and 7. j.
Woofter Jr., of the commission on in
tpr-racial cooperation, will speak on
"The Organization of Rural Negroes
for Health Work"
Miss Ruth v. Emerson of the Boston
Dispensary, Boston. Mass, viii preside
ct the session devoted to Hospital So
cial Service and Health" There will
be addresses on "The Social Case Meth
cd in Health Work" by Miss Janet 7.
Thornton, committee on dispensary de-
velopment of New York, and tThe Con
tribution Of Hospital Social Service to
Health Conservation" by Miss Edith
Baker, director Of social service at the
Barnes hospital, St. Louis, No.
One group meeting viii be devoted
to the Social Aspects of Medical Re
search" with DR.. Eugene R. Kelley,
state commissioner Of public health Of
Massachusetts, presiding. Surgeon
George w. Mccoy of the United States
Public Health Service will speak OF
practical Application of Research
Findings" and the discussion will be
opened by DR.. Wickliffe Rose of the
Rockefeller Foundation, New York.