SECTION VIII. PUBLIC HEALTH AND MEDICAL SCIENCE. 



Surg. Gen. WILLIAM C. GORGAS, Chairman. 



Col. JOHN VAN R. HOFF, Vice Chairman. 



Maj. EUGENE R. WHITMORE, Secretary. 



ARTURO L,. GuERRA, M. D., Corresponding Secretary. 



Subsection A. Public Health. 



Subsection B. Vital Statistics. 



Subsection C. Sociological Medicine. 



Subsection D. Sanitation. 



Subsection E. Laboratory Conferences. 



TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 28, 19159 O'CLOCK. 



SECTION HEADQUARTERS AND ALL SECTION MEETINGS AT THE NEW EBBITT HOTEL . 



First General Session of Section Vm. 



SECTION ROOM, NEW EBBITT HOTEL. 



Surg. Gen. WILLIAM C. GORGAS, Chairman. 

 Address of Welcome, Surg. Gen. WILLIAM C. GORGAS. 



Problems of Insect-borne Diseases in Pan America. 



JUAN GUITERAS, Director of Health of Cuba, Professor of General 

 Pathology and Tropical Diseases in the University of Habana. 



Immunity to Yellow Fever. 



H. R. CARTER, United States Public Health Service, Baltimore, Md. 



The Occurrence of Filariasis in Pan America. 



A. J. SMITH, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



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