"Infectious Disease and Your; Child" is the theme of an insti-l tute scheduled from 9 a. m. to; 2:30 p. m. Thursday at the Lou-; isiana State university medical school for invited parents' clufr representatives of the. area.
Sponsored by the Tuberculosis Association of Greater New Orleans, the conference has * been planned in co-operation with the LSU medical school; Parent-Teacher Association Councils of Orleans and Jefferson parishes; Orleans and Jefferson Home Demonstration Councils; New Orleans Council of Catholic School; Co - operative Clubs, and other j parents' groups in the area.
Registration will be from 8:30 to 9:15 a. m., with the opening session following. Dr. Andrew Hedmeg, director of local health services, state health department, will preside.
The institute theme will be discussed by Dr. Robert Sappenfield, associate professor of pediatrics and public health; LSU. Dr. Theodore Pfunt, associate professor of pediatrics, LSU, will talk on "What Infectious Disease Means To Your Child."
"Tuberculosis in Childhood" will be discussed by Dr. Margaret H. D. Smith, associate professor of pediatrics, Tulane medical school, while Miss Margaret C. Moore, chief, nutrition section, state health department, will give an address at the opening of the afternoon session on nutrition as a factor of infectious diseases.
Problems and needs of children posed by infectious disease will be discussed by the featured speakers in a special panel session.
Also participating in the panel will be Mrs. George Fanning, president, Council of Catholic Cooperative Clubs; Mrs. Mazie Ad-kins Guidry, secretary, Orleans Parish P-TA Council; Mrs. Jamei Comfort, president, Orleans Parish Home Demonstration Council, and Mrs. William Lowry, president, Jefferson Parish P-TA Council.
Miss Laurraine Goreau, woman's editor of the New Orleans States and New Orleans Item will preside at the afternoon session and will moderate the pane discussion.
