Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ererof the American species of Hookworm, » « ^ R-^h-w^y sukoboins. |j
and the
America;
prevalence of the disease in The Association of Seaboard Air Line 'i
Railway Surgeons held its eighth annual i;
Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, president of the meeting in the hall of the House of Repre- :|
University of Virginia; sentatives in Raleigh, X. C, October 19lh 'I
Dr. David E- Houston, chancellor of and 20th. :'
Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.; The sessions were largely attended, there :i
Prof. P. P. Claxton, professor of educa- being present surgeons from all sections of
tion in the University of Tennessee; the country through which the Seaboard
Mr. J. y.. Joyner, State Superintendent Air Line passes. The meeting was called :
of Education in North Carolina, and presi- to order by Dr. James R. Rogers, of Raleigh, li
dent of the National Educational Associa- chairman of the committee on arrange- i
tion; ments, and following this there was a prayer j
Mr. Waller H. Page, editor of The by Rev. Milton A. Barber, rector of Christ i
World's Work; Church. There were a number of addresses ,i
Dr. H. B. Frissell, principal Hampton of welcome, the first of these being by Gov- 1/
Institute; ernor W. W. Kitchin.
Mr. Frederick T. Gates, one of Mr. City attorney, Walter Clark, Jr., welj
Rockefeller's business managers; corned the doctors on behalf of the city,
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Picot, physician of the State I
Mr. Starr J. Murphy, Mr. Rockefeller's and Dr. L. J.
counsel in benevolent matters; Hospital for the Insane, on behalf of the!
Mr. John D. I^ockefeller, Jr , would seem Medical Society of Raleigh and Wake i
to guarantee that there will be results which
are worth while.
The work merits and receives the approcounty,
eloquently expressed thevvelcomeii
to the visitors. Mr. W. H. Pace, of the
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Raleigh Bar, and legal representative of t
bation of the whole nation and of the medi- the Railroad, and Chief Surgeon, Jno. M. )
cal profession particularl)'. And since it Burke, of Petersburg, Va., responded. The I
affects our Southland especially, we should address of the President, Dr. William Wes- j
doubtless feel very grateful to Standard Oil. ton, of Columbia, S. C, followed. Dr. i;
It would have required many years to have Weston discussed various topics in refer-]
secured so large a sum of money by legis- ence to the work of the Seaboard Air Line f
lative enactment on the part of Stales or surgeons and the profession and their rela- 1
the nation to be applied for such a purpose, tion to public health, which he held the .
Perhaps it never could be done. When the thing of main importance. In his remarks •
taxpayer is asked if he may be called upon he said that the physician is the one de- i
to contribute his share for such an enter- pended upon in the problem of health,
prise, he usually puts his foot down upon He dealt especially with some of the more 1
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it very promptly. But everybody must use recently discovered problems ot health and
Standard Oil. It is, therefore, only neces- hygiene, which the South has now to face,
sary to raise the price a little and whether Some of his utterances were sensational and |
he will or no the consumer must contribute, radical, Ijut none the less vital and true,
Such an admirable arrangement it would The association voted unanimoush' to
be if it were possible to obtain the assist- adopt the recommendations of Chief Sur- \
ance of Mr. Rockefeller in a campaign geon Jno. M. Burke that the management'!
against tuberculosis, typhoid fever and of the Seaboard Air Line be urged to eslab- i
other prevalent and widespread diseases, lish a relief department for the employes'
He need only squeeze the people a little and a chain of hospitals under the relief \
harder and the funds are forthcoming. And department auspices.
then while it is perhaps only human nature This action was taken on recommendathat
we should each and every one imagine tion of a special committee named to outthat
we could have done better if the doing line some scheme along the line of the rec- |
had been left to us, it does seem that there ommendations of Dr. Burke in his annual 1
are ruore powerful and weighty reasons ^-ddress. \
why such a sum of money could have been ^ committee including the officers of the
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applied to better purpose in the fight against
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tuberculosis. Of course it wouldn't have about the establishment of the department.; |
counted so greatly in that direction, because Discussion developed the fact that many of j
of the vastly greater need, the results would the Railway officials high in authority arej J
^1''^^^ heartily in favor of a relief depart-, t
contain less of the spectacular and, on a
,r , , . , ^, , , , , ment for the system. It looks as if it will i'
purely selfish basis, the South would have ^^rtainlv be inaugurated soon after the sys-j .:
received less of the benefits than it will tem passes out of the hands of the receivers. '
from this million dollar fund. A large number of interesting papers weKj j
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