Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-31
NOTED PHYSICIANS
!. TO ATTEND SESSION
Hospital Conference viii
Open at Catholic Uni
verSity Tuesday.

Promotion of the scientific, educa-
tional, economic and spiritual welfare
of the hospital as an institution will
be sought by internationally known
medical men and women here this week
in the fifteenth annual convention Of
the Catholic Hospital Association of the
United States and Canada at Catholic
University, beginning Tuesday morning
/ Nineteen other organizations in the
general medical field, including the
American College of Surgeons, the
American Medical Association, the Ca-
madam Medical Association, the Ameri-
can Red Cross, the United States Public
Health Service and the Hospital Divi-
sions of the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps, will participate in the convention
with the Catholic Hospital Association
making the four-day session a virtual
medical congress for the further adj
vancement of the science of hospitali2a-
| ton.
In its coming convention, the aSSocis.-
| ton proposes to carry still another step
| forward the purposes it set up with us
organization in 1915: To promote the
/ advance of general interest of all hos
pital work and to help the cause OF
medical education by contributing in
/ every way possible to the advancement
| of medical science through the encour-
| agement and aid of internes and hos
pital stats.
ID. C. Physicians on Program.
Discussions of virtually every phase
| of hospital administration will be pre-
sented by eminent authorities. Wash
| ington's own leading medical men viii
be we'll represented on the convention
program. DR.. William Gerry Morgan
| former president of the American Med
ical Association and governor of the
American College OF Phy ysn aastio WI
meetings on the first day of the con-
vention. In the same meeting DIR. Nor
gan will discuss the significance OF ed
ucation to the hospital. Brig. Ger.
Hugh S. Cumming surgeon general q.
S. Public Health Service, will discuss
the hospital as a factor in publ,
| health and Rev. John L. Gipprich, S. j.,
regent of the Georgetown UNIVERSITY
| Medical School, will present paper on
the hospitals responsibility toward med
| ical education.
The leading out-of-town delegates to
the convention are headed by the as
sociation's president, Rev. DR.. Alphonse
M. Schwitalla, S. j., dean of the St
Louis University Medical School, GEAR
of the Nursing School in the same uni
versity and regent of its Dental School,
and one of the Nations outstanding
biologists. DR.. Schwitalla will pre-
Side over the general meetings Tuesday
and Wednesday mornings and, IN the
course of the convention, will discuss
the Contribution of the Catholic Hos
uital to the Community
DR.. McCoIIum to Speak.
Johns Hopkins University will be
represented by DR.. E. V. McColium;
professor of biochemistry In the Scnool
of Hygiene and Public Health. DR.:
McCollum will talk on the science OF
Nutrition and Dietetics."
A solemn pontifical mass in the Ma
tional Shrine of the Immaculate Con-
ception on the university campus at
40 o'clock Tuesday morning will open
the congress. Most Rev. Pietro Fuma-
soni- Biondi, apostolic delegate to the
United States will be the cele-
brant, while the associate clergymen
in the celebration of the mass Will M
clude Rev. Bonaventure Simon, Q. F. M,
and Rev. Frederick Stadler, o. +. M,
deacons of honor; Rev. Anthony Braun
o. r. NJ, deacon of the mass; Rev.
Jerome, o. F. M, subdeacon of the
mass, and Rev. G. Milholland, master
of ceremonies. Rev. Paul l.. Blakely,
| S. j.. associate editor of America, Jesuit
publication, will deliver the sermon.
The opening session of the conven-
| ton will be held in Maloney Auditorium
at IL am. Tuesday, at which time the
| 1900 delegates will be welcomed by
Right Rev. Edward A. Pace, vice rector
of Catholic University. DR.. Schwitalla
will respond to the greeting
Three sectional meetings will be held
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
afternoons, while the general meetings
will be staged prior to the luncheon re-
| cesses each day through Friday. Final
adjournment is scheduled for 1890 pm.
| Friday.
Equipment Exhibit.
One of the major features Of the
convention will be an exhibit of the
latest hospital equipment. Facilities
! for every department of the hospital
from the kitchen to the operating room
will be shown in what probably will be
the most comprehensive exposition of
medical equipment in the country at
this time. Ninety-five manufacturers
already have taken space in the exhibit
hall, which is set up in the university
gymnasium.
Besides those already named, the
organizations represented or participant
ing In the Catholic Hospital Associa-
| tion's convention are: American AS
ISOLATION of Hospital Social Workers,
American Dietic Association, American
Nurses Association, Association of
Record Librarians of North America,
Committee on the Grading of Nursing
| Schools Medical Mission Corps, Hos
pital Library and Service Bureau,
National Catholic School of Social
Service, International Catholic Fedora
ton of Nurses, National Hospital Day
Committee and the National League of
| Nursing Education.