Health Officers' Conference

On Thursday and Friday, June 14 and 15, there will be held in Ann Arbor the second annual conference of health officers of the state under the auspices of the state board of health. The meeting will be held at the hygienic laboratory and promises to be very interesting. The state board of health has sent invitations to each local board of health in the state to have at least one representative at this conference and it wlll undoubtedly be well attended and can hardly fail to have good results. The purposes of the conference are the general comparison of views by the health officers and other delegates of local boards of health, among themselves and with the officers and members of the state board of health, and especially with reference to three important preventable diseases, namely, consumption, typhoid fever and small pox. After the statement of the objects of the conference, by the president of the state board of health, it is proposed to devote the afternoon and evening of Thursday to tuberculosis- the most important cause of death which can engage the attention of the health officers hroug-hout Michigan. There will be demonstrations of the tubercle bacilli, methods of staining the bacilli, methods of growing the bacilli, methods of inocuating animáis with the bacilli, and post mortem examination of animáis which have been inoculated with the tubercle bacilli. In the evening there is to be a paper on "The Spread of Tuberculosis," by Prof. F. G. Novy, M. B.( of the University, to be followed by a discussion. Also a paper on the "Restriction and Prevention of Tubelculosis," by Dr. Henry B. Baker, secretary of the state board of health. to be followed by a discussion. Friday forenoon is to be devoted to the subjects of the causation, restriction and prevention of typhoid fever. Papers and discussions on these subjects are to be followed by a demonstration of the methods employed in the state laboratory of hygiëne for the examination of drinking water. Friday afternoon is to be devoted to the subjects of small pox, its restriction and prevention. There is to be a paper on the "Relations of Vaccinia, Varioloid and Varióla," by Prof. George Doek, M. D., of the University. The papers are to be followed by a general CUSS10U.-