Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 2 | Sanitation Subject of Blue's Address

SANITATION SUBJECT OP BOO ADDRESS Surgeon General Declares It More Vital Than Military Mil-itary Preparedness. DALLAS, Tex., Nov. 9. Sanitary preparedness was termed a greater national need than military preparedness prepared-ness by speakers at today 's sessions of the .Southern Medical association's annual an-nual convention here. Dr. Kupert Blue, surgeon general of the public health service, made the principal address, while a military turn was given the discussion dis-cussion by Dr. W. L. Rodman, president presi-dent of the American Medical associa-j associa-j tion, w hen he asked the association to help develop a medical corps large enough for any expansion of the army and navy. Sex hygiene aud life insurance formed the topics considered bv departmental meetings of the association. Dr. Isadore Dyer of New Orleans led a discussion of the former, during which Dr. Llovd Thompson of Hot Springs, Ark., advocated advo-cated the use of the Wassermann tests before issuance of marriage licenses. Dr. P. N. Whitfield of Florence, Miss., urged the issuance of public health bulletins bul-letins on the subject, anil declared girls who read such bulletins would not be in a hurry to marry without investigation of their suitors. ''Mothers should know," ho said, "that they ought to regard every boy with suspicion and not be in a hurry to marry their girls off.'' Dr. John L. Davis of Waco, Tex., a speaker on life insurance, doclared that slatistics recently issued by thirty-seven thirty-seven leading companies showed there is "no such thing as safe or moderate drinking. ' ' Mothers ''afflicted with au abundance "I ill-considered and bad advice on what lo drink and what to cal." were enumerated among molheis likely to be "capable of nursing their children, by I'r. .1. Ii'uss Snyder of Hiiiniiigham, Ala., peaking before ,e medical section.