DISCUSSION. 353 



ing infections diseases. We have here delegates from practically all 

 countries east of Suez, from India, Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, 

 Netherlands-India, Siam, Hongkong, China, and Japan, and we have a 

 grand opportunity for formulating conclusions. If we put off this 

 question until the business meeting which comes the last day of the 

 session, it simply means that no practical results can be reached until 

 the next meeting of the association in 1912. 



Doctor Reiser. — I would like to ask Doctor Atkinson to add the 

 opium question to the list he has given. The most excellent paper of 

 Sir Allan Perry again brings to our attention in a most forcible manner 

 the value of the resolutions of the last International Conference on 

 Leprosy at Bergen, because they aid us as health officers in our contention 

 that in order successfully to combat this evil it is necessary to segregate 

 lepers. The Legislature of the Philippine Islands, several years ago, 

 did put into force the principles involved in the resolutions of the 

 international conference, and as has been mentioned by Doctor Perry, 

 the result thereof in the Philippine Islands has been most gratifying, 

 the total number of lepers having been reduced from 4,000 to 2,300, 

 which reduction is believed to be due to the fact that new infections are 

 prevented. 



In view of the great prevalence of the disease in oriental countries, 

 and since the delegates to this association represent nearly all the gov- 

 ernments concerned, it seems to be most appropriate and fitting that a 

 set of similar resolutions should be favorably acted upon by this As- 

 sociation. 



The following committees were appointed by the chair : 



Plague. — Doctor Atkinson, chairman ; Doctors Highet, Hooton, Castellani and 

 Strong. 



Leprosy. — Doctor de Haan, chairman; Doctors Staby, Neeb, Shibayama and 

 Heiser. 



Opium. — Doctor Fraser, chairman; Doctors Beebe, Staby, Neeb and Musgrave. 



Quarantine. — Doctor Brooke, chairman; Doctors Highet, Atkinson, de Haan 

 and Heiser. 



Tuberculosis (local committee). — Doctor Musgrave, chairman; Doctors Mc- 

 Laughlin, Christensen, Andrews and Sison. 



Beriberi. — Doctor Highet, chairman; Doctors Strong, de Haan, Fraser and Aron. 



The following resolutions were finally adopted by the association : 



TUBERCULOSIS. 



Resolved, That the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine should use 

 its influence to cause the formation of a national antituberculosis society in each 

 political entity represented in the Far Eastern Association of Tropical Medicine. 

 These societies to be formed along the lines of existing antituberculosis societies 

 in other parts of the words, yet revised to facilitate the work under local condi- 

 tions. 



