The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-05
Social Service Department By MRS. SIDNEY M. ULLMAN

the subject in their programmes, which the council chairman might outline if de- sired.
 The following programme might serve as 8 model
 Significant signs of adolescence and how they should be treated, given by a phy- sician.
 The correct attitude of the school to the awakening youth, given by a teacher. Our moral obligation to the adolescent, given my a clergyman.
 If there is no desire to go deeply into the subject. a simple and interesting plan is the study of dramas that deal with the sex question, such as Percy MacKay's Tomorrow Brieux's Dam aged Goods" etc.
 After careful study of programmes the national chairmand finds none bet enniel:
 LECTURE I.
 The relation of mother to child from conception until the age of entering school.
 Psychology of pregnancy; the obliga- tions of the mother to the unborn child; prenatal influences; the laws of heredity the age at which most children receive sex enlightenment and it's usual sources;
 
 able instruction these influences. s LECTURE II. The moral phenomena of adolescence ReproductionI, our highest and most sacred functiom} the significance of men, stratson and Its physiology: the fallacy of the current belief that confluence is harmful; it's necessity and value; the con- seouenceS of abuse and unethical exer- else of the reproductive functions; the n4,I <1 1,,q fering caused by them, both in the guilty and in the innocent the material. as well ar moral, value of clean thoughts, read ing and conversation, and the beneficial Influence of physical exercise; the par ents' duty to frankly teach these facts to the adolescent boy or girl. Z
 LECTURE TIT.
 The hygiene of the home:
 Cleanliness, apparent and real; food, kind, amount and preparation; fresh air, its value in promotion of health and in preventing disease; tuberculosis in its re- lation to the home; typhoid fever in its relation to the home; scarlet fever and other infectious diseases in their rela- tion to the home; notable disease car riers; the mosquito; the red bug. the fly and rat.
 LECTURE ".
 The problem of the child.
 His nervous system and early training the value of sleep; his exercise; food. To these may be added the following: The social evil.
 The establishment of a vigilance com mittee and how other states have done this work
 The study of social hygiene in relation to prison reform.
 SCHOOLS AND OUTSIDE WORK Tn all work of this nature the school should be the pivot of action. Lectures may be introduced for mothers in after noon courses; for fathers in evening lec- lures, and separately for girls and boys ii day or night school. Pamphlets should be constantly kept on hand in the school library and distributed freely.
 Settlements and neighborhood houses should be used and classes for pros pective mothers should be formed to in- struct them in the proper care of i'm fants and of themselves.
 No work outside the section can be undertaken without the full consent of those in authority and this can frequent ly not be secured unless a careful ard diplomatic course of action is followed. As stated before the superintendent of education should be approached, and if he is indifferent, explanatory literature should be sent him and the subject pre- scented in such way as will engage his interest and convince him of its import ance Assured of his support the board of education may be reached and school classes organized. led by the school med ical inspector or other physician
 CONCLUSION
 As rule, in the Jewish home the in- fluence and guidance of the mother are good and wholesome and the mother and father are equally eager to aid in all hygienic instruction. but in the poorer and congested districts of the city, where the mother is by force of necessity away from the home. or where conditions are unfavorable. children need this instruc- ton and can only receive 1t properly through classes, preferably in the public schools.
 Work in social hygiene as advocated by the Council of Jewish Women is stu pendous undertaking. unlimited in it's pos abilities, and too little real understand ing of the subject or interest in it has been shown. The obligation we owe and should feel to the youth ow our gener- a at3or, and the desire to make uoptflnr tha