The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-09-10
CARRIERS HOME
FROM HEALTH
CONFERENCE
Miss Laura Carter Ac-
companied Father on In
teresting Mission
~ OCTOR HENRY r. CARTER,
the Assistant Surgeon General
O of the Public Health Service,

OCTOR HENRY r. CARTER,
the Assistant Surgeon General
IL of the Public Health Service,
and his daughter, Miss Laura Car
ter, have Just returned from a
thoroughly fascinating summer va.
cation-a vacation that took them
away from the beaten paths Of
summer tourists.
Doctor Carter and his daughter
went as the guests Of the United
Fruit Company under whose Med
ical Department was held an inter-
national conference on health prob
lens In tropical America. To this
conference, which lasted from July
20 to August Z, and which was
held In Kingston, Jamaica, were
invited leading authorities on va
rious health problems that concern
residents in tropical countries. In
the group were about hundred
and twenty-five, which included the
wives Of several of the doctors and
the daughters of a few. For in
stance, Doctor Fred Banting, the
famous young discoverer of insu.
lin, had his bride, a charming
girl with him.
Miss Carter was perhaps the
most eminent daughter present.
She has collaborated so much with
her father in the writing of his
various publications and has trav-
eled with him in almost all the
lands of the earth that she is a
pretty good authority on many
health problems that have chal-
lenged the intellect Of the foremost
physicians of the world.
But to get back to- this "sum.
mer vacation given at the expense
OF the United Fruit Company. The
company had two of it's boats en-.
gagged to take its guests to ia.
maica--one sailing from New York
on July 10, carrying the North
American delegation, and one sail.
Ing from England about the same
time carrying the European group.
After the conference was over the
guests tickets were still good for
travel IN South American and Cen.
tral American countries and return
70 their native lands as late as
December 81.
Conference Sessions Held
In Famous Kingston Hosiery.
The sessions of the conference
were held IN the Myrtle Bank Hotel
at Kingston. which is considered
one OF the finest hostelries in the
New World. On the second dav ~
the conference Doctor Carter gave
his address. on 1.-THE Preferential
and Compulsory Breeding Places Of
Some Disease.bearing Mosquitoes
and the Limits Which Determine
the Latter" Such language as the
above title is First Reader stuff for
Doctor Carter. who is probably the
best living authority on yellow
fever and its accessories-such as
. mosquitoes and SO forth.
After the conference was ended
Doctor Carter and his daughter
went to Panama and then to
Colombia where they visited in
Cartagena, one Of the Oldest settle
ments in the Americas, Baranquilla
and Santa Marta. A novel called
-Four Bells" has recently been
written with Cartagena as the
locale. In Baranquilla the Carriers
We're guests at an official reception
given at the A. B. c. Club, which
initials are the short" of
Aristocracy. Beauty and Culture.
From Colombia they returned to
Panama for another visit and back
to Kingston and then on board for
New York where they landed last
Friday. On their way to Jamaica
they stopped at Havana for a few
days. In every place the Carriers
met many friends for Doctor Carter
] is known almost everywhere there
/ is a medical profession.
Miss Carter brought back many
odd and lovely things purchased or
presented to her in the different
stops on their tour. One is a
"pajuela," a gold dagger to be
worn. in the hair and not in the
heart as the tropics night suggest
Another is some "Blue Mountain"
coffee grown and packaged in ia
maica.
Now that Miss Carter and her
father are established in thei.
apartment at the Westmoreland for
the winter they will soon be at
work again on the History of Vel.
low Fever" that Doctor Carter,
with the assistance of his daugher,
/ is writing. Miss Carter, who also
is poet of ability, collected on this
"trip Impressions and ideas which
she win probably express in verse
when the mood possesses her, ir-
reSistibly