Evening star., 1926-09-26
IS REPUBLICS SEND
HEALTH DELEGATES
First Pan.American Confer.
ence Opens Sanitary Ses-
sions Here Tomorrow.

The first pan American conference
Of National Directors of Public Health
will open a three-day session tomor-
row, under the auspices of the Pan
American Sanitary Bureau, at the
Pan-American Union.
Delegates from Is Central and South
American republics will be welcomed
at 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning in the
Hall of the Americas by Undersecre-
tary of State Joseph {. Grew. l.. :.
Rowe, director general of the Pan
American Union, and Surg. zen.
Hugh S. Cumming. United States Pub
lie Health Service, director of the Pan
American Sanitary Bureau.
The principal topics which will be
discussed at the conference are: the
pan-American sanitary code. pubic
health organization and administra-
ton and preventative measures and
methods Of treatment of leprosy,
plague, yellow fever, dysentery, ma
laria, ankylostomia sis, Venereal as
ease smallpox, typhus. trachoma, III
berculosis, goiter and narcotic addlc-
ton. Attention will be given to the
problems of infant and maternal NOR
tality, maritime quarantine procedure
garbage disposal and SANITARY ensi-
neering.
Officers to Be Elected.
The morning session tomorrow viii
be devoted 10 the election OF officers.
while the afternoon session beginning
At O'Clock iii the Columbus room
of the Pan-American Union VIII be
taken up with the presentation ana
consideration of papers by the dele-
gates A tea in honor OF the deie
gates will be rendered at $50 O'Clock
by Surg. Gen. and Mrs. Cumming az
their residence, 2219 California street
and the evening program at CLOCK
will be occupied with motion pictures
illustrating different phases OF public
health and hygiene and popular eou-
cation in heailh work.
AutomObiieS VIII call Tor the 'Oele-
gates Tuesday morning at > ocioch
at the Willard Hotel to take them
for a vlsl. 10 ua-.y plant, anu IA
inspection will be nlaue, al IL O'CLOCK
of the Hygienic Laboratory or the
United States Public Health service.
The sessions of the conference VIII
resume at . O'Clock in the Columbus
room of the Pan-American Building
with the reading OF reports ana dls-
cussion of health problems. a dinner
an honor ol the deiesaoes Will be
rendered at O'Clock a. ,he cosmos
Club by Surg. Gen. Cumming fol
lowed by tie discussion ol topics %
general intereSl. The ladies vi the
delegation VIII HldhS Gil oOlOihooiA~
trip during the morning to Mount
Vernon as the guests OF Mrs. Cum
ming. after which they will lunch at
the residence Of Asst Surg. Gen. and
Mrs. Bon>ar }. Lloyd, 1896 kanawha
street
Foundation of Library.
The foundation and dedication OF
the library OF the Pan-American
ufiil a nI2cp at
o'ciock Wednesday morning at the
Pan American Building, and members
of the conference will attend lunch
con at | O'Clock given ty the gov
erning board Of the Pan-Amerlcan
Union. The closing session of the
conference, at which all unf1nlsheu
business will be disposed of, will take
place at 2:30 o'clock. and Secretary
OF State Frank E. Kellogg will hold
a reception in honor Of the delegates
at o'clock at the Pan-American
Building. The delegates have been
invited to attend the meetings of the
international Union Against Tuber-
culosis. which will convene at the
Nayf1ower Hotel the following da.'.
and arrangements have Geen made
for the delegates to make an inspec-
ton trip on Sunday to the public
health exhibit at the Sesquicentennial
Exposition at Philadelphia.
Although this is the first officially
organized conference CT the directors
of the public health services Of the
pan-American republics. international
sanitary conferences have been held
ever since 1889. The first meeting
was held in Washington. and consid-
cred among other questions the san
itation of ships and quarantine. The
Second International Conference of
American States. as it was then call
ed, convened in 1901 at Mexico City
to create the then International. now
Pan-American. Sanitary Bureau.
Conference Here In 1907.
The first International sanitary con
ference, tndepenfn nnt of the general
conferences of American States. met
in Washington il 1902, under the an.
spices of the IT. .ernational Union nj
the American Republics, with dele
gates present from Chile. Costa t,ica.
Cuba. Ecuador Qua iemala. Honduras.
Mexico. Nicaragua. Paraguay. Uru-
quay and the United States. This con.
ference adopted resolutions concern
ing the time Of detention and meth
ods Of disinfection at quarantine.
measures to destroy the yellow fever
mosquito and means TO control fever
and cholera.
The next conference. in 1905, was
also held in Washington: the third. in
1907, at Mexico City; the fourth. in
1909. at San Jose. Costa Rica; the
fifth, in 1911. at Santiago, Chile: the
sixth. in 1920. at Montevideo. with
reorga MIA ton of the sanitary bureau
along more formal and efficient lines.
and the last. in 1924. at Havana.
Among the topics discussed at that
time were a campaign against alco-
holism, the establishment of public
health schools. infant welfare, pre-
vention Of bubonic plague. drug and
food laws, publication Of drinking
water and the abolition of prostitu
tion.
Delegates Expected.
The following delegates will he pres
ent at the current gathering of public
health authorities: DR.. Blanco Galindo
and DR.. Villaroel. La Paz, Bolivia; Or.
Fernando Rensoli. Havana: DR.. Rs
mon Baez, Hijo. Santo Domingo. Do
minican Republic; DR.. Pablo Suarez.
Quito. Ecuador: Ccmdr. c. s. Butler.
Port Au Prince, Haiti: DR.. Antonio
Vidal, Tegueiwalpa, Honduras: DR..
Bernardo Gastelum, Mexico City; Dr..
Sebastian Lorente. Lima. Peru. DR..
Carlo Farde Y Arthes, San Salvador,
Salvador: DIR. Carlos j. Bello, Caracas.
Venezuela DIR. Alfonso Puneda, rector
Of National University, Mexico City:
DR.. Mario G.. Lebredo. honorary di
rector Of the Pan-American Sanitary
Bureau, Havana; DR.. Cesar Muxo,
lieutenant colonel, Medical Corps. Ha-
vana: DR.. Pablo Garcia Medina, Bo
gotta, Colombia: DR.. Andres Gubetch,
Asuncion, Paraguay: DR.. Guillermo
G. de Paredes. Panama. and Prof |
Leitao da Cunha.' Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil.