Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-01
HEALTH PROBLEMS
Medical Men Hear Addresses
by Dr.. ViIIanueva of Mexico
and Others.

Discussions of health problems and
I'm address on public health work in
Mexico by DR.. Aguilino Villanueva, chief
of the Mexican department of health,
featured the opening of the second days
session of the forty-fourth annual on
ference of State and Provincial Health
Authorities Of North America, which
will bring the conference to a close with
the election of officers and adoption of
resolutions this afternoon. The ses-
sions are being held in the Annapolis
Hotel.
Reports of the organizations commit
tees on public health and nursing, DR..
C. OH. Laughinghouse. chairman;
disaster relief, DR.. E. L. Bishop. chair
man: American Red Cross relation TO
health authorities, DR.. William De
Kleine, chairman; child hygiene, DR..
M. Nicoll, jr, chairman, and h pre-
ventable disease committee, DR.. Bigelow.
chairman, were to come up during the
day.
DR.. G.. H. Bigelow, Commissioner on
Health for the State of Massachusetts,
in a report yesterday afternoon, de-
DiOISu IIlG IdCh VI hitON1CdSC ~ OAh
batting respiratory and other diseases
and referred to the many precautions
taken against them, without success.
DIR. Bigeiow's Address.
After referring to the physicians gen.
eral knowledge in dealing with certain
diseases. DR.. Bigelow declared:
I'VE have all blushed for shame that
in the name of prevention people have
been forced to walk over sheets soaked
with disinfectant; lap dogs and their
foster mothers have been parted; auto
mobiles have been detoured round
towns over roads where the menace OF
cranial trauma was enormous; railroad
stations have been stated with other
wise honest physicians who, after in
spection of the tongue or other easily
accessible organ, issued travel permits;
at one time or another everything from
schools to soda fountains have been
closed, except transportation and the
mouths of the prepoSterouS admins
traitors. In all this" he continued, "the
stamp machine vendors, h paper cup
interests, the handkerchief manufac-
turers and the proprietors and pro-
prietaries applaud and egg us on"
Report by DR.. Anderson.
DR.. j. C. Anderson, chairman of the
organizations committee on uniform
sanitary railway code, made his report
Yesterday, making the following general
recommendations:
l. That the standard railway sanitary
code be made to cover sanitation of bus
lines.
2. That a plan be worked out jointly
between State and railway officials by
which some one will be charged with
the enforcement of the code.
3. That all railroads in the various
states be encouraged to follow the splen-
did example of some of the railroads
carrying on mosquito control work. the
elimination of surface comfort stations
and immunization against diseases In
the communities which they serve.
4. That all railroads be encouraged
to eliminate as rapidly as possible all
grade crossings.
5. That the conference cooperate
more fully with authorities in Mexico
in extending the provisions of the code
to railway lines in Mexico.
6. That more adequate provisions be
made by h railroads for rendering
first aid in flooded areas and in times
of unusual stress.
Industrial Hygiene Discussed.
Dr. .. n. OSBORN, chairman Oh the
conference committee IN industrial hy-
giene. made specific recommendations
for the examination and care Of en-
ployes of organizations. Other reports
made yesterday included the following
Report by DR.. A. T. Mccormack
chairman of the full-time county health
units committee; by DR.. Kendall EN-
erson, who reported on the Nationa,
tuberculosis Associations relation tt
State and provincial health authorities
and a report by DR.. D.. l.. Cannon
chairman Of the milk committee.