THE FIRST NATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS OF ARGENTINA, SEPTEMBE 17 TO 24, INCLUSIVE. General view of one of the sessions of the Congress.

the Argentine Government, the diplomatic corps of the South and Central American Republics, the educational societies of Buenos Aires, the families of the delegates and numerous other families and persons were invited to attend the opening session of the Congress. A choir of about 400 children opened the ceremonies by singing the national anthem. Addresses were then made by Dr. Oliver, Secretary of the Treasury of the Argentine Government, in representation of the President of the Republic; the chairman of the congress, Dr. Julieta Lanteri Renshaw; Dr. José de Montellano, in representation of the Bolivian delegation; Dr. Alfredo Ferreira de Magalhaes, representing the Brazilian delegation; Dr. Angel C. Sanhurza, representing the Chilean delegation; Miss Hardynia K. Noville, representing the temperance societies of the United States; Gustave A. Ruiz, representing the delegation of Salvador; Dr. Cosme Manzoni, representing the delegation of Paraguay; Dr. Paulina Luici, chairman of the delegation of Uruguay; Dr. César Sánchez Aizcorbe, representing Peru; the Consul General of Venezuela, representing that country; Matias Alonzo Criado, representing Ecuador; and Dr. Lemos Britto, who thanked the secretary of the treasury, in the name of the congress, for his timely remarks delivered at the inaugural meeting.

Among other things the congress recommended the following:

1. The First American Children's Congress asks of the public authorities of the American countries that penal legislation be studied and enacted in such a manner that children shall not be considered criminals. That proper attention be given to asylums for children and similar establishments. That the American Children's Congress would be much gratified if the Argentine Government would study the situation of the "Winter City" (Ciudad de Invierno) in the Province of Corrientes, which, on account of the great size of its building, its geographic situation, and the area of its land (2,500 hectares), is an establishment suitable for use as an agronomic station for the apprenticing and correction of minors.

2. That immigration laws be passed forbidding entrance to American countries of persons notoriously pernicious from a physical or moral standpoint, without regard to any political, religious, or doctrinarian creeds.

3. Whereas in the public schools there are a large number of sickly children who attend by express order of the law, the First American Children's Congress declares: That it is the duty of the American States, where such is the practice, to solve the problem of sickly pupils, and to encourage at the same time the formation of cooperat ing organizations for the protection of such children, such, for instance, as vacation colonies, food societies, medical and dental examinations, etc.; that prevention being the scientific predominating concept, instruction of sickly children should be given under natural surroundings in which the factors of food, climate, physical exercise, instruction, etc., should be the bases of physical reestablishment in the only possible epoch of infantile life (6 to 15 years), and to which end it advises the use of the new hygienic-pedagogic, scholastic, preventive organization of the schools, namely, the employment of sea, mountain, or plain in the treatment of sickly children; that the lives of children be protected from diseases due to ignorance and vice, and that the new hygienic-pedagogic method be adopted in the American countries as early as possible as a safeguard for the future health of the race and for the betterment of the social condition of its members.

The congress approved a resolution that school furniture employed in schoolsdesks, for instance-should be adjusted to the height of the pupils, and that measurements for this purpose should be taken twice a year.

Upper: The board of directors seated at the table. Left to right: Minister of Industry, Don Angel Guarello; Ex-President of Chile, Don Ramon Barros Luco; the President of the Republic, Don Juan L. Sanfuentes; president of the Congress, Don Carlos Besa; Chilean minister of foreign affairs, Don Ramon Subercaseaux. Lower: The general secretary, Don Osvaldo Martinez C., addressing the Congress.

the Argentine Government, the diplomatic corps of the South and Central American Republics, the educational societies of Buenos Aires, the families of the delegates and numerous other families and persons were invited to attend the opening session of the Congress. A choir of about 400 children opened the ceremonies by singing the national anthem. Addresses were then made by Dr. Oliver, Secretary of the Treasury of the Argentine Government, in representation of the President of the Republic; the chairman of the congress, Dr. Julieta Lanteri Renshaw; Dr. José de Montellano, in representation of the Bolivian delegation; Dr. Alfredo Ferreira de Magalhaes, representing the Brazilian delegation; Dr. Angel C. Sanhurza, representing the Chilean delegation; Miss Hardynia K. Noville, representing the temperance societies of the United States; Gustave A. Ruiz, representing the delegation of Salvador; Dr. Cosme Manzoni, representing the delegation of Paraguay; Dr. Paulina Luici, chairman of the delegation of Uruguay; Dr. César Sánchez Aizcorbe, representing Peru; the Consul General of Venezuela, representing that country; Matias Alonzo Criado, representing Ecuador; and Dr. Lemos Britto, who thanked the secretary of the treasury, in the name of the congress, for his timely remarks delivered at the inaugural meeting.

Among other things the congress recommended the following:

1. The First American Children's Congress asks of the public authorities of the American countries that penal legislation be studied and enacted in such a manner that children shall not be considered criminals. That proper attention be given to asylums for children and similar establishments. That the American Children's Congress would be much gratified if the Argentine Government would study the situation of the "Winter City" (Ciudad de Invierno) in the Province of Corrientes, which, on account of the great size of its building, its geographic situation, and the area of its land (2,500 hectares), is an establishment suitable for use as an agronomic station for the apprenticing and correction of minors.

2. That immigration laws be passed forbidding entrance to American countries of persons notoriously pernicious from a physical or moral standpoint, without regard to any political, religious, or doctrinarian creeds.

3. Whereas in the public schools there are a large number of sickly children who attend by express order of the law, the First American Children's Congress declares: That it is the duty of the American States, where such is the practice, to solve the problem of sickly pupils, and to encourage at the same time the formation of cooperating organizations for the protection of such children, such, for instance, as vacation colonies, food societies, medical and dental examinations, etc.; that prevention being the scientific predominating concept, instruction of sickly children should be given under natural surroundings in which the factors of food, climate, physical exercise, instruction, etc., should be the bases of physical reestablishment in the only possible epoch of infantile life (6 to 15 years), and to which end it advises the use of the new hygienic-pedagogic, scholastic, preventive organization of the schools, namely, the employment of sea, mountain, or plain in the treatment of sickly children; that the lives of children be protected from diseases due to ignorance and vice, and that the new hygienic-pedagogic method be adopted in the American countries as early as possible as a safeguard for the future health of the race and for the betterment of the social condition of its members.

The congress approved a resolution that school furniture employed in schoolsdesks, for instance-should be adjusted to the height of the pupils, and that measurements for this purpose should be taken twice a year.

Upper: The board of directors seated at the table. Left to right: Minister of Industry, Don Angel Guarello; Ex-President of Chile, Don Ramon Barros Luco; the President of the Republic, Don Juan L. Sanfuentes; president of the Congress, Don Carlos Besa; Chilean minister of loreign affairs, Don Ramon Subercaseaux. Lower: The general secretary, Don Osvaldo Martinez C., addressing the Congress.