The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-10-17
SURVEY OF HOPFWTLL.
Southern Sociological Congress Looks
Into Health Conditions

Into Health Conditions.
Surveys of health conditions in
Hopewell and the surrounding com
munity are being conducted this week
under the auspices OF the Southern
Sociological Congress and n local com
mittes OF one hundred citizens
Investigations are being made~-with
reference to the food and water sup
ply housing conditions, preventa BILE
disease, the health Of children. and
other phases of the public health ques-
ton. Reports on conditions found are
being made each night at public meet
Ing by the experts brought here by the
Sociological Congress. Monday night
recommendations will be made for
meeting the problems found and plans
formed FOR continuing the work of the
Sociological Congress IN Hopewell
The social welfare exhibit Of the
congress is on display nj the r WI
lage Y, NJ. c. A. and covers such sub
jects as care of infants, pure milk,
good food, temperance living and
working conditions, ventahle dis
ease, and the work of various national
organizations which are working along
the lines OF public health and welfare
]. Herbert Wilson. general secretary
Of tho V. NJ, G. A, is chairman of the
local committee Of one hundred =.
Among the speakers and workers
who arr taking part in tho survey and
meetings In the Wonder City are:
Dr. ]. r.. McCulIoch. general secre-
tary Of the Southern Sociological Con-
sress, Mr.. L. NJ Pfeifer, OF the Ameri-
can Social Hygiene Association, Or.
Richard r Watrous OF the A ~ erican
Civic Association. DR. John Thlder, OF
the National Housing Association, DR..
J. T. Mastin. Of the State Board OF
Charities, DR.. w A. Picker. OF the
state Board of Health Prof w. A.
Wright, Of the Virginia State Board
Of Education. Or Fnion G. Williams,
president OF the State Board OF Health,
DIR, Sam Hatcher, president of the
State Board of Charities. Miss Edith
NJ Wills, of the Anti-Saloon League
Of America, Miss Mary f. Brown, of
the w. c. r.. l., Miss Florence r.
Beslny. Of the American Red Cross,
DR.. A. J. Read, of the Sociological
Congress staff Surgeon b w. Brown.
of the United States Public Health
Service. william c. Headrick, director,
OF the social welfare exhibit, Of the
Sociological Congress. and Rev. r. A.
Mathews, J, L. Terrence and Max
Dietshe, OF the Sociological Congress
staff
The Sociological Congress stands
for tho abolition Of child labor. the
extension and Improvement OF Juvenile
courts and reformatories; for COM
pulsory school attendance laws: for
the proper care and treatment OF de-
fectives; for the recognition OF the
relation OF alcoholism to disease, to
crime, 10 poverty and to vice, for the
adoption OF appropriate preventive
measures; for the solving of the race
question in spirit OF helpfulness
to the negro and OF equal Justice to
both races; for the suppression of
prostitution; for the abolition Of con-
viCt. lease and contract systems and
for the adoption OF modern principles
OF prison reform: for the prevention
of disease and for the conservation
Of health for the individual, for the
community. and for the nation; for the
closest cooperation between the
church and all social agencies for the
securing of these results. Public health
Is the central theme which the
Sociological Congress u enaphasing.