With hundreds of public health workers from all sections of the sjtate in attendance, the* Assembly on Chronic Illness will ,open a two-day session Tuesday in the city council chamber of City Hall.
The assembly is being sponsored by the Tuberculosis Association of Greater New Orleans. It will cover fundamentals of chronic illness. Particular emphasis will be placed on chronic diabetes, asthma, arthritis, tu-j herculosis and alcoholism.
Open free of charge to the public, the assembly will get under way with registration at &j30 a. m. Waller Young Jr., Resident of TAGNO, will preside at the opening meeting at #30 a. m.
SYMPOSIUM FIRST . The first session will feature a s y mposium on ' 'Exemplary, Chronic Illness." Speakers will include Dr. Louis Cabrian, senior visiting physician, Charity hospital; Dr. Maurice Jeffery, chief of the Tulane university medical school arthritis service; and Dr. Daniel Hayes, Dr, Rudolph E. Wilhelm, director of the allergy clinic at the Louisiana State university medical school. ^Tuesday afternoon, "Chronic pediatrics" will be discussed by E)r, T. R. Pfunt, associate professor of pediatrics, LSU medical school. A talk on "The Relationship of Aging and Chronic Illness" will follow with Dr. Benjamin Morrison, New Orleans internist, as speaker.
As a climax to Tuesday's sessions there will be a panel discussion on "The Scope of Chronic Alcoholism." The discussion will i&e moderated by W. Findley Raymond, director of public information for TAGNO.
Panelists will include Dr. Gene h. Usdin, psychiatrist; H. J. Walters, Baton Rouge director of alcoholism, division of Louisiana state department of hospitals; Dr. Johi} Bobear, chief of the alcoholism unit, Charity feospital; Mrs Florence Wallace, social service chief, U.S. Public Health Service hospital; Mrs. Sue Arnoult, New Orleans health department. * Wednesday's sessions will get under way at 9 a. m. Speakers will include Dr. William R. So-; rum, psychiatrist, and Miss! Joyce Joseph, medical social* cpnsultaiit, state division of vocational rehabilitation.
TREATING CHRONICS
-: The second half of the session | Wednesday morning will be devoted to a symposium on •'treating the Chronically 111." Speakers will include Dr. John Walsh, U. S. Public Health Service hospital; Dr. Jack Wickstrum, Crippled Children's hospital and Dr. William H. tyfosby, Marrero, Expressway Medical Center.
.Wednesday afternoon, DivJ% p. Martin, medical director state department of public welfare will preside, A symposium on "Community Facilities and Needs" is schedule
