Evening star., 1926-09-29
AMERICAS COMBINE
|NSAN|TARy WORK
Conference Here Marks Out
Program of Unified Fight
on Disease.

Far-reaching steps toward welding
the nations of the two Americas into
closer cooperation have been taken
in the sessions here of the first Pan
American Conference of the National
Directors of Public Health. This was
:he consensus today as the delegates
representing Is American republics,
met in the final days sessions to per-
feet plans for the coming year.
Among outstanding actions of this
inaugural health congress are the for
nation Of a permanent organization
adoption of a new program of inter.
national health measures, including
classification of ports. and the found.
ing this morning Of library of the
Pan-American Sanitary Bureau.
All to Aid Program.
The remainder Of this mornings
session, which was executive, was de-
voted to reports by delegates upon the
health and sanitation conditions OF
their respective countries and the
progress which has been made in re-
cent years. All delegates pledged
their support to the program of the
conference and to work for wider
adoption Of the new pan-American
sanitation code.
The conference paid a tribute to the
work Of Dr. John D. Long, Assistant
Surgeon General Of the United States
Public Health Service, who for more
than a year has engaged in assisting
the Chilean government in organizing
public health work throughout that
nation. The public health directors
sent him the following cablegram to
Santiago:
Conference extends unanimous
vote of felicitation for your sanitation
work in Chile. Congratulations"
The message was signed by DR..
Lucas Sierra, Chilean director Of pub.
lie health.
White House Reception.
The delegates this afternoon will
conclude their deliberations with
adoption of recommendations of
number Of committees, and at 9
o'clock this evening will be received
by Secretary Of State Kellogg.
Tomorrow afternoon the health di-
rectors, together with delegates to the
tuberculosis Convention, will be re-
reived at the White House by Presi-
dent and Mrs. Coolidge. Many will at
tend the sessions of the Tuberculosis
Convention, and on October 3 will go
to Philadelphia to see health exhibits
Al the SeSquicentennial Exposition.
Delegates Report Gains.
Reports showing increasing appre-
citation of the Importance of public
health measures have been given by
number of the Latin American
delegates. All told of progress made
recently in the enforcement of scien-
iific programs of combating diseases
One of the most important of these
measures, 1t was stated. was the
effort being made to insure healthful
water supplies for their people
Others told of quarantines inaugurat-
ed to check spread of diseases.
cablegram from officials of the
colombian government, read at yeSter-
days session. said that nation had
Just appropriated Sl1 900, 900 for san
ttary work in different parts of the
republic.
Code Committee Named.
A committee was named to prepare
recommendations and reports on the
pan-American sanitary code which
are to be submitted to the Eighth
Pan-American Sanitary Conference in
Lima. Peru. in October, 1927. This
committee includes Surg. Gen. Hugh
s. Cumming. dire otor of the Pan
American Sanitary Bureau. and
the secretary general and cheif
public health official Of each country
a1iliated with the Pan. American
Union, who are 70 carry on their
deliberations by correspondence with
Gen. Cumming.
The following were appointed mem
hers of the resolutions committees: Dr.
Bernardo j. GaStelum, chief of the
Department of Public Health of Mex
ico: DIR. Lucas Sierra, director gen
'I'al of public health of Chile; DR..
Sebastian Lorente. director Of public