Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1936-12-24
|DR|VE TO BE MADE
ION SOCIAL DISEASE
Delegates From 80 States
and D. c. to Meet
Here Monday.

ana &OuOIIIle0 ON the ne8lLQ OF amer
lean citizens will be launched by
Surg. Gen. Thomas Parran, chief Of
the United States Public Health Serv.
ice. In q three-day conference here,
beginning Monday. The meetings
will be held in the Department Of
Commerce Auditorium.
More than 800 delegates from 80
States and the District Of Columbia
are expected to attend this conference
on venereal disease control. The pur-
pose Of the conference, according to
Dr.. Parran, Is to encourage discussion
of the problem in open forum 50 that
q more workable national program may
be outlined.
Paul de Kruif. popular writer on
microbes and medicine, will be among
the first days speakers. The others
include DR.. Parran, Assistant Surg.
Gen. r. A. Vonderlehr, DR.. Edward S.
Godfrey, New York State commissioner
of health: DR.. Earle G. Brown, secre-
tary Of the Kansas State Board Of
Health; DR.. Walter Clarke, director Of
the Bureau Of Social Hygiene. New
York City Health Department.: DR..
p. S. Pelouze, DR.. John H. Stokes, DR..
H. H. Hazen, professor Of dermatology.
Howard University. and Homer Folks.
executive secretary of the New York
State Charities Aid Association.
Five Meetings on Second Day.
For the second day five section
meetings are scheduled. conducted in
panel discussions of the important
problems in venereal disease control.
A section on the public health control
of syphilis will be conducted by DR..
George H. Ramsey. assistant commits
sioner Of health, New York, as chair
man, and DR.. Paul s. Carley Of the
United States Public Health Service,
as secretary.
A panel discussion Of treatment as
q factor in the control Of syphilis will
be led by DR.. Joseph Earle More, as
sociate in medicine and physician in
charge of the syphilis clinic, Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore. with
DR.. William r. Snow. director Of the
American Social Hygiene Association,
as secretary.
Medical follow-up Of the venereal
disease patient will be discussed by
group Of medical social workers,
headed by Miss Lena r. Waters, direc-
tor Of the social service department,
University of Pennsylvania Hospital,
and Miss Pearl McIver, senior public
health nursing consultant of the
United States Public Health Service.
DR.. U. J. Vile to Attend.
Dr. lido J. Vile. professor of der
natology and syphilology, University Of
Michigan. and DR.. w. w. Bauer, direc-
tor of the Bureau Of Health and Pub
lie Instruction, American Medical As
ISOLATION. will lead the discussion Of
cooperation Of the private physician
in the control Of the venereal diseases.
A fifth section on the public health
control of gonorrhea will be led by DR..
N. A. Nelson, assistant director Of the
Massachusetts, State Division Of Com
municable Diseases, and DR.. P. s.
Pelouze. University of Pennsylvania.
DIR. Alan M. Chesney, dean Of the
medical faculty. Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, will deliver the closing address
Of the conference on Wednesday, to be
followed by the reports of the chair
men Of the various section meetings
held on the previous day.
% to Represent d. C.
Twenty-eight delegates will repre-
sent the District of Columbia. Among
them are:
DR.. George c. Rutland. District
health of1cer, and DR.. T. c. Thompson,
DR.. George Tredwell. DR.. Jerome
Rogers. DR.. Ross Taggart. DR.. Truxton
Morgan, DR.. George liable, DR.. Bernard
Notes. DR.. M. w. Glover and DR..
Arthur Mourot, staff of the District
venereal disease clinic
DR.. Numa P. G. Adams. dean of the
School of Medicine, and DR.. H. A.
Poindexter. DR.. c. Wendell Freeman.
DR.. r. s. Jason and DR.. Paul B. Cor
nelly Of Howard University; Ray H.
Everett, executive secretary of the So
cial Hygiene Society of Washington;
Miss Naomi Deutsch and Miss Edith
Baker of the Children's Bureau.
Miss Margaret Hagan, American
Red Cross director, st. Elizabeth's
Hospital: Miss Irene Grant, Veterans
Administration; Comdr. Charles s.
Stephenson, Bureau of. Medicine and
Surgery, United States Navy; Dr. Nor
ris Chase, luetic clinic, Children's
Hospital.
Miss Lucia Murchison, director; Mrs.
Mary Spencer, Miss Edith Mccoy, Miss
Edith Beattie, chief nurse of the dis
pensary, and Miss Caroline Sweeney,
Social Service Department, Cnildren's
Hospital; Mrs. Ella D. Fleming, Freed
mems Hospital.