| Show I LEADS WAR ON WHITE PLAGUE r I Dr Frank Billings of Chicago president of the Illinois state board of charities and a noted physician has been elected president of tho National Na-tional Association for tho Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis This organization of doctors which has already done Important work toward the stamping out of tho white plague has Just held a largely attended convention in Washington Alter the death of the Into Marshall Field Dr Billings sent in tho following bill To services rendered from January 10 to January 17 day and night attendance time of journey to and from New York 2C000 This fee one of the largest ever paid an American doctor was allowed without question Dr Billings Is noted as a diagnostician Ho IH a member of most of the technical bocletles of tho medical profession and Is consulting physician In many of tho Chicago hospitals In 19023 Dr Billings was president of tho American Medical association as-sociation and ho also has been president of the Chicago Medical society Ho Is 53 years old and Was graduated from Northwestern university medical school In 1881 Dr Billings attracted much attention last fall by advocating stile regulation I regu-lation of marriage In a widelyquoted speech ho said i I do not believe there should be such freedom of marriage I am no lawyer but I would like to see noclety put on Its statute books a law for liltldlng two people to he married not merely until they had secured a cer tlflcato of health from a physician but until they had obtained u certificate of Inheritance showing their antecedents This sounds drastic but llte Increase in the defective classes Is so Impressive as to warrant such a conclusion Two per cent of tho population of Illinois is I Insane The number of defectives is Incieaslng three per cent unuuully |
