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CONFERENCE ON CONSERVATION OF
SCHOOL CHILDREN.
UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE
AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
(Specializing in Medical Sociology.)
DROWN MEMORIAL HALL, LEHIGH UNIVERSITY,
South Bethlehem, Pa.,
Wednesday, April 3rd and Thursday, April 4th, 1912.
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM.
(Subject to Revision.)
The time limit for the reading of any paper is twenty minutes;
the presiding officer will give a three-minute notice before the
expiration of that period. Readers of papers may extend their
matter in the printed report.
Those who are assigned to open the discussion, and the author
in closing are permitted to speak ten minutes; in the general
discussion, five minutes are allowed to each speaker. As the
program is crowded, it is hoped that all who participate will be
careful to observe these rules. .
FIRST SESSION.
DEFICIENT AND BACKWARD CHILDREN.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2.oo p.m.
Presiding Officer, Alexander Righter Craig, A.M., M.D., Chicago, President
of the American Academy of Medicine.
Committee on Program: G. Hudson-Makuen, A.M., M.D., and Walter S.
Cornell, B.S., M.D., Philadelphia; and E. R. Johnstone, Vineland, N. J.
I. Greetings and Response.
2. “Remediable Conditions in the Feeble-Minded and Backward.”
Walter Stewart Cornell, B.S., M.D., Philadelphia, Lecturer on Child
Hygiene, University of Pennsylvania.
Discussion: To be opened by Maximilian P. E. Groszmann, Pd.D., Plain-
field, N. J., Educational Director of the National Association for the Study
and Education of Exceptional Children; H. M. Carey, M.D., Spring City, Pa.,
Supt. Eastern Penna. Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic.
3. “Sterilization and Segregation.”
(a) Henry H. Goddard, Ph.D., Vineland, N. J., Director of Research
in the Vineland Training School for Backward and Feeble-
minded Children.
(b) H. C. Sharp, M.D., Indianapolis, Trustee Indiana Reformatory,
Jeffersonville.
Discussion: To be opened by Alexander Marcy, Jr., M.D., Riverton, N. J.
4. “How to Secure State Appropriations for the Proper Care of the Feeble-
Minded.”
Joseph S. Neff, M.D., Philadelphia, Director of Public Health and
Charities.
Discussion: To be opened by E. R. Johnstone, Vineland, N. J., Super-
intendent of the Training School for Backward and Feeble-Minded Children.
5. “How Far Shall the Public School System Care for the Feeble-
Minded?”
(a) Andrew W. Edson, New York, Associate City Superintendent of
Schools of the City of New York.
(b) J. H. Van Sickle, Springfield, Mass., Superintendent of Schools.
(c) E. Bosworth McCready, M.D., Pittsburgh, Medical Director,
Hospital School for Backward Children.
Discussion: To be opened by William C. Schauffler, A.B., M.D., Lakewood,
N. J., President of the State Board of Education of New Jersey.
SECOND SESSION.
CONSERVATION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
Wednesday, April 3rd, 7.30 p.m.
Presiding Officer, Henry S. Drinker, LL.D., President Lehigh University.
The arrangements for the evening session will be announced at the after-
noon session.
THIRD SESSION.
TEACHING HYCIENE.
Thursday, April 4th, 9.oo a.m.
Presiding Officer, Rev. Paul deSchweinitz, D.D., Bethlehem, Pa.
Committee on Program: John B. McAlister, A.M., M.D., and N. C. Schaeffer,
LL.D., Harrisburg; and Percy Hughes, Ph.D., South Bethlehem.
8. “What Should be Taught?”
(a) “The Physician's Point of View.”
Seneca Egbert, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia, Dean of the Medical
Chirurgical College.
(b) “The Teacher's Point of View.” *
Percy Hughes, A.M., Ph.D., South Bethlehem, Professor of
- Philosophy and Education, Lehigh University.
Discussion: To be opened by J. A. Singer, Ph.D., East Stroudsburg State
Normal School and F. D. Raub, Supe intendent of Schools, Allentown.
9. “How Should Hygiene be Taught?”
(a) “Methods in Vogue.”
W. S. Steele, Harrisburg, Principal Harrisburg High School.
(b) “Improvements Suggested.”
Louis Nusbaum, Philadelphia, District Superintendent Public
Schools.
Discussion: To be opened by Alvin Davison, A.M., Ph.D., Easton, Professor
of Biology, Lafayette College, and James S. Grim, Ph.D., Keystone State
Normal School.
Io. “Teaching Hygiene for Better Parentage.”
(a) Thomas D. Wood, M.D., New York, Teachers College, Columbia
University.
(b) Helen C. Putnam, A.M., M.D., Providence, R. I.
11. “Indirect Methods of Teaching Hygiene.”
C. E. Ehinger, M.D., West Chester, Pa., Physical Director, State
Normal School.
RECESS.
FOURTH SESSION.
MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Thursday, April 4th, 2.oo p.m.
Presiding Officer, Samuel G. Dixon, M.D., LL.D., Harrisburg Com-
missioner of Health of Pennsylvania. •
Committee on Program: Thomas Grier Simonton, A.B., M.D.; Arthur A.
Hamerschlag, Sc.D.; and Hon. Joseph Buffington, Pittsburgh.
12. “Medical Inspection of Schools.”
(a) “From the Standpoint of the Board of Health.”
J. F. Edwards, M.D., Pittsburgh, Head of the Bureau of Health.
(b) “From the Standpoint of the Educator.”
- Thomas A. Storey, M.D., Ph.D., New York, Professor and Director
of Physical Instruction and Hygiene, College City of New York.
13. “Measures for Prevention of Respiratory Infection in the Schools.”
William Charles White, M.D., Pittsburgh, Head of Tuberculosis
League.
Discussion: To be opened by
(a) Watson L. Savage, A.B., M.D., Pittsburgh, President New York
Normal School of Physical Education; Student Health Supervisor
Carnegie Technical Schools.
(b) Arthur Hammerschlag, Sc.D., Pittsburgh, Director Carnegie
Technical Schools. -
14. “The Relative Physical Advantages of School Lunches in Elementary
and Secondary Schools.”
Ira S. Wile, M.S., M.D., New York.
CONTRIBUTIONS.
(The time at the disposal of the Conference permits only a
few of the problems to be presented and even these have been
discussed but partially. To give a broader and deeper view, a
number of papers have been sought to be announced on the
program but not to be read. These papers will be printed with
the proceedings.)
I.
IO.
II.
I2.
I3.
“The Teaching of Social Ethics, and its Relation to the Conservation
of the Child.”
Winfield Scott Hall, M.D., Ph.D., Chicago, Professor of Physiology,
Northwestern University Medical School.
. “The Conservation of Vision in School Children.”
Thomas Woodruff, A.M., M.D., Chicago.
. “The Classification of the Feeble-Minded.”
A. C. Rogers, A.M., M.D., Faribault, Minn., Superintendent of the
Minnesota School for Feeble-Minded and Colony for Epileptics.
. “The Subnormal School Child.”
L. T. Royster, M.D., Norfolk, Va.
. “The Colorado Method for the Examination and Care of Public School
Children.”
Mary Elizabeth Bates, M.D., Denver. Author of the law providing
the method.
. “The Importance of the Early Recognition of Surgical Troubles in
Children.”
Charles D. Lockwood, A.B., M.D., Pasadena, Cal.
. “The Desirability of Teaching Preventive Medicine in the Higher
Institutions of Learning.”
Henry B. Hemenway, A.M., M.D., Evanston, Ill.
. “Physical Education as a Conserver of School Children.”
Dudley Allen Sargent, A.M., M.D., Cambridge, Director Hemenway
Gymnasium, Harvard University.
. “The Work of the Clinton Health League, New York City.”
R. W. Sharpe, New York, Professor of Biology, DeWitt Clinton
High School.
“The School Nurse.”
Frank Allport, M.D., Chicago.
“The Fresh Air School.”
T. W. Grayson, A.M., M.D., Pittsburgh.
Subject to be announced.
Ernest Bryant Hoag, A.M., M.D., Berkeley, Medical Director
Berkeley Schools, Lecturer in Public Hygiene, University of
California.
“Some Considerations in the Development of Medical Inspection.”
E. W. Goodenough, A.B., M.D., Waterbury, Conn., Chairman of
Committee on Medical Inspection of Schools, Connecticut State
Medical Society.
14. “The Management, Maintenance and Efficiency of the School for
Cripples in Cleveland.”
J. E. Tuckermann, A.B., M.D., Cleveland.
REGISTRATION.
A. Those who have paid the membership fee ($2.00) in advance
will receive a registration card by mail. This is to be presented
to the registration clerk, who will give in exchange an official
program and the badge. To insure the receipt of your registra-
tion card the fee should be sent to the office of the Secretary of
the American Academy of Medicine, 52 North 4th St., Easton,
Penna., by not later than the last week in March. Checks should
be drawn to the order of the American Academy of Medicine.
B. Those who have not paid the fee in advance will find
registration cards near the registration clerk. Fill out one of
these cards and give it to the registration clerk with the fee
($2.00) unless the transactions are to be cloth-bound when it is
($2.50) and receive in exchange the final program, badge, and a
receipt.
C. Fellows of the American Academy of Medicine will claim
their membership on the registration card and receive the final
program and badge without a fee. This is covered by the annual
dues, and the transactions are furnished in the Bulletin.
D. Visitors not registered are invited to attend any or all
of the sessions but will not be entitled to receive the official
program or badge.
A part of the hall will be reserved for members of the Conference.
TRANSACTIONS.
The papers, discussions and communications noted on this
program will be published in the “Bulletin of the American
Academy of Medicine” during the year. An advance reprint
will be issued as soon after the meeting as practicable and will be
sent, carriage prepaid, to every member of the Conference, bound
in paper if $2.00 has been paid; in cloth if the amount was $2.50.
It is believed that the volume will be valuable and subscriptions
for the volume are solicited at the same price from any one who
may see this notice. Kindly send remittance with the order as the
price of the volume is fixed at its estimated cost and no pro-
vision is made for the additional correspondence for collecting.
Draw checks to the order of the American Academy of Medicine
($2.OO if paper-bound, $2.50 if cloth-bound) and send to 52 North
4th St., Easton, Penna.
NoTE.—Subscriptions at this price are net and will be accepted
up until the time of the first form going to press. A limited
edition beyond the advance orders will be printed but a marked
advance will be made in the price that trade discount may be
given to book-sellers.
ENTERTAINMENT.
Drown Memorial Hall is somewhat removed from the more
desirable hotels and, through the courtesy of Lebigh University,
meals may be had at the University “Commons” at the regular
rates paid by the students for individual meals; breakfast 12
cents, dinner 30 cents, supper 20 cents. This will afford an
excellent opportunity for the members of the Conference to get
acquainted and will furnish the social relaxation so desirable
in meetings of this kind. -
Accommodations for over night can be had at the hotels as
follows:
Hotel. Accommodations for. Rate per day (American plan).
Eagle (Bethlehem). . . . . . . . . . . . . I 50 $2.50
Sun Inn “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5O $2.OO and 2.50
American “ . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5O $2.00
Wyandotte (South Bethlehem)... 5o $2.50, 3.00 and 3.50
Merchants & 4 6 & 5O $2.oo
Bethlehem and South Bethlehem, while separate corporations
with different post-offices, are really sections of the same com-
munity with no intervening space except the Lehigh River which
separates the two towns, and this is spanned by two bridges.
Reservations should be made directly with the hotels. Dr.
W. L. Estes, South Bethlehem, of the Executive Committee, will
be pleased to be of any service in securing hotel accommodations.
It will contribute to the comfort of all, as well as be of as-
sistance to the University, if those who purpose to make use of
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the University Commons, will advise the Executive Committee
at as early a date as possible.
PUBLICATIONS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
I. The “Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine,”
a bi-monthly magazine devoted to medical Sociology. It pub-
lishes all the papers and discussions presented to the American
Academy of Medicine, and other articles of interest to all public-
spirited people. Single copies, 50 cents; annual subscription
$3.00 in advance.
II. Prevention of Infant Mortality: the papers and discussions
of the Conference on that subject at Yale University in 1909.
pp. 347, cloth, price $5.00, carriage prepaid.
III. The Teaching of Hygiene through Domestic Science
and Nature Study. Helen C. Putnam, A.B., M.D., pp. 53.
Paper, price 20 cents, post-paid.
All orders should be addressed to the American Academy of
Medicine, 52 N. Fourth St., Easton, Penna., and should be ac-
companied with the price. Stamps received for amounts of
less than one dollar. Draw checks to the order of the American
Academy of Medicine.
THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
The American Academy of Medicine is an association of physi-
cians confining its discussions to Sociologic questions having
relation to medicine or to physicians. It has emphasized the
necessity of making the medical profession truly a learned profes-
sion more than any other single subject, and has endeavored to
live up to its convictions by limiting its membership to those
who possess a liberal education in addition to the medical course.
Its standard has been the requirements of the Continental uni-
versities as nearly as can be expressed by the educational system
of this country, and it invites all such to unite with it. Applica-
tion blanks can be procured from the Secretary or at place of
registration.
ExECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE CONFERENCE.
R. H. Beck, Hecktown; W. L. Estes, South Bethlehem; J. E. Fretz,
7507 2572
Easton; E. M. Green, Easton; Charles McIntire, Easton (Chairman); H. C.
Pohl, Nazareth.
Local, COMMITTEE.
Henry S. Drinker, President of Lehigh University; N. M. Emery, Vice-
President of Lehigh University; W. L. Estes, Director of St. Luke's Hos-
pital, South Bethlehem and Lecturer on Hygiene, Lehigh University.
OFFICERS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE.
President, A. R. Craig, Chicago.
Vice-Presidents, W. Blair Stewart, Atlantic City; Albert Goldspohn,
Chicago; R. L. Wilbur, San Francisco; A. E. Hertzler, Kansas City, Mo.
Secretary and Treasurer, Charles McIntire, Easton, Pa.
Assistant Secretary, J. E. Tuckerman, Cleveland.
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