TUBERCULOSIS CONFERENCE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 52, 2 March 1908, Page 7

TUBERCULOSIS CONFERENCE.

INVITATIONS TO BE SENT BY UNITED STATES. By Telegraph. — Press AsxoclatKin.— Copyright. (Received March 2, 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Ist March. Congress has authorised the Hon. Elihu Root, Secretary of State, to invite foreign Governments to send delegates to tbe conference on tuberculpsis to bo hold in September next. One of the most notable attempts to instruct tho public in medical and hygienic matters will be made at Washington in tho fall of 1903, when tbe Fifth International Congress on Tuberculosis will assemble. While sums of the seven sections into which the con-fi-ess is to be divided will be of immeiate concern only to physicians and hygienic experts, others will be devoted to strictly popular instruction. There will be, for instance, a great tuberculosis exposition, presenting in pictures, charts, brochures, models, and demonstrations the ravages of the plague and the way in which they are being checked. Then thpru will be clinics at which _laymon as well as specialists will find vivid object lessons that cannqt fail to drive homo the vital importance of the antituborculoßis war. The congress will continue in session for three weeks, from 21st September to 12th October. For those who cannot go to Washington at that time the National Associatiqn for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis will issue pamphlets and records of the transactions, while, of course, the press despatches will amply describe as much of Mvi congress us can be told in words.