Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-15
MANY SPECIALISTS
TO DISCUSS CHILD
White House Conference
Medical Section to Begin
Sessions Thursday.

A distinguished group of specialists
from all parts of the country will meet
with the several hundred members OF
the medical section of the White House
Conference on Child Health and Pro-
lection, which will hold sessions here
from Thursday through Saturday.
Addressing the conference last No
vember, President Hoover called atten-
ton to the fact that there are 100000
improperly nourished children in the
United States This disclosure has
caused considerable public interest in
food and food values, with result that
nutrition will occupy an important
place in the forthcoming discussions.
Nutrition is one of Is equally significant
topics that will be considered as part
of the report of the medical section.
Headquarters will be maintained at
the Willard Hotel, with the day sessions
at that hotel, the Washington Hotel
and the Chamber of Commerce Of the
United States. Evening sessions VIII be
held in Constitution Hall.
Review on Nutrition.
DR.. Lafayette B. Mendel, professor
of physiological chemistry, Yale Uni
versity, will review the studies on nutri-
ton which have been made by the
Committee on Growth and Develop
ment His review will define the re-
lationship of nutrition to the growth
and development of the child and will
consider such practical problems as the
sources, supply and content OF tood
substances. This important meeting
will be presided over by DR.. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior and
chairman of the conference.
Among other topics TO be discussed
at the meeting are Included important
reports on the functioning of the vari-
Gus organs of the human body under
oil M ohY1nyvV1oI conditions oY4d
their relationship to the growth and
development of the child. Temperature
regulation, fatigue, sleep and pre-
maturity as they directly bear upon the
practical problem of child health will
be considered.
In the special consideration of pre-
natal and maternal care, attention will
be given to factors and causes OF fetal,
early infant and maternal morbidity
and mortality, prenatal, maternal and
early infant care, obStetric teaching
and education of the medical student to
at him to practice obstetrics, as well as
TEACHING and education OF nurses, social
workers and the general public in re-
stect to their responsibilities to the
eXpectant mother and the newborn
child
Medical Section Members.
Prominent specialists who are mem
bers of the medical section include
Miriam Birdseye Of the Bureau of Home
Economics of the Department of Agri-
culture; DR.. Taliaferro Clark, Public
Health Service: DR.. William De Kleine,
medical assistant to the vice chairman
of the American Red Cross; DR.. Mar
shall G. Guthrie, Office of Indian
affairs, Department Of the Interior;
DR.. Blanche M Haines, Miss Lucy
Minnigerode, registered nurse of the
United States Public Health Service;
DR.. T. F. Murphy, chief statistician for
vital statistics, Bureau of the Census;
Miss Clyde B. Schuman, national di-
rector of nutrition service, American
National Red Gross; John o. Spain,
DR.. Elizabeth c. Tandy, director Stats
teal research, Children's Bureau of the
United States Department of Labor;
Carl Voegtlin, HYGIENE Laboratory,
United States Public Health Service;
Or. Lawrence w. White, Office of Indian
Affairs. Department of the Interior, and
DR.. William Charles White, chairman,
Committee on Medical Research, Ma
t.J1lal tuberculosis Association.