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SECTION VIII. 



PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCE. 

 PUBLIC HEALTH. 



Infectious diseases the bearing of their modes of infection on methods 

 of control; nutritional diseases their public health bearing, with 

 special reference to beriberi and pellagra; reduction of infant 

 mortality. 



VITAL STATISTICS. 







Sickness (morbidity) reports; birth and death registration. 



SOCIOLOGICAL MEDICINE. 



Relation of the individual to the community; ways and means of bring- 

 ing matters of public health to social usefulness; public health 

 measures industrial hygiene and sanitation; venereal prophy- 

 laxis, alcohol and drug prophylaxis; tuberculosis; mental hygiene. 



SANITATION. 



Town and city planning: buildings for human occupancy; food and 

 water supply; ventilation; disposal of refuse. 



LABORATORY CONFERENCES. 



Symposia on anaphylaxis, life histories of protozoa, and cancer 

 research. 



PAN AMERICAN TOPICS. 



Progress of vital statistics in the Pan-American countries; etiology 

 and prevention of tuberculosis from the sociological standpoint. 



SECTION IX. 



TRANSPORTATION, COMMERCE, FINANCE, AND TAXATION. 



TRANSPORTATION. 



The regulation of public utilities. The improvement of transportation 

 facilities by means of inland waterways, motor railroad cars and 

 motor-driven vehicles, aeroplanes, and air-propelled gliding boats. 



COMMERCE. 



Feasibility of establishing uniform methods, documents, statistics, port 

 charges, administrative regulations, and classifications in inter- 

 national trade between the North, Central, and South American 

 countries; the effects of the European war upon the commerce of 



