War Meeting for Health Officers
NEWS AND COMMENT.
A war meeting will be held at Washington, D. C., Oct. 17-20, 1917, by the American Public Health Association. This will replace the annual meeting which was to be held at New Orleans, La., Dec. 4-7, 1917. The papers and conferences will deal largely with the health problems created by the Great War,?the food supply, communicable diseases among soldiers, war and venereal disease, war and the health of the civil population, etc. President Wilson has said: “It is not an army we must shape and train for war; it is a nation.” Go to the Washington meeting; then come back and do your bit!
Washington will be crowded and those interested are urged to reserve hotel accommodations at once. It will be easy to cancel reservations; but it may be impossible to obtain rooms at the last moment. Any hotel or railroad can give a list of Washington hotels.
Preliminary programs will be automatically mailed to all members of the A. P. H. A. about Sept. 15th. Non-members may receive them free by wtiting to: The American Public Health Association,
128 Massachusetts Ave., Boston, Mass. United States Food Administration Committees. Realizing that the nutrition of a people and the condition of its food supply bear intimate relations to the general problems of public health, the United States Food Administration has sought the advice of experts and announces the creation of an Advisory Committee on Public Health. Dr William H. Welch has been named as Chairman of the Committee, the personnel of which is as follows: Leonard P. Ayres, Herman Biggs, David T. Edsall, Cary T. Grayson A. Walter Hewlett, T. T. Janeway, F. G. Novy, Richard M. Pearce, and H. Gideon Wells.
In addition, Dr Alonzo E. Taylor and Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur, members of the Food Administration, will be ex-officio members of the Committee. It is believed that through the advice and co-operation of this committee, representing specialized workers in the various correlated departments of medicine, the administration of food control will be enabled always to work for the best interests of the health of the different sections of our country. The United States Food Administration further announces the creation of an Advisory Committee on Alimentation, the purpose of which is to gain the active co-operation of experts in the determination of policies of food control from the standpoint of the science of nutrition. The Committee consists of C. L. Alsberg, Russell H. Chittenden, C. F. Langworthy, Graham Lusk, LaFayette B. Mendel, and E. V. McCollum.
In addition Dr Alonzo E. Taylor, Dr Ray Lyman Wilbur and Dr Vernon Kellogg, members of the Food Administration, are ex-officio members of the Committee on Alimentation. (156)
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