The public ledger., 1920-11-02
INSTITUTE ON The RED
PLAGUE IS TO Be HELD
U. :. Public Health Service To Hold
Special Training School on Dis
eases Which Are Showing Marked
Increase In Nation.

Washington, d. c. = To meet the
steadil yincreasing interest taken by
the public generally and by the med
ical profession particularly in the war
against the Great Red Plague the U.
S. Public Health Service has organiz-
ed an institute on venereal disease
control and social hygiene to be held
in Washington, November % to De-
cember 4. AT this meeting health Of
ficers, private practitioners, clinicians,
educators, psychologists, sociologists,
and others who feel the need of fur
ther information nregard to the twin
diseases of the red plague and in re-
gard to the different sciences that
have helped in building up onr now
wide knowledge concerning them, may
obtain free of all charge, the benefit of
ten days intensiv etraining by the
best experts, man and woman, in the
country. In this work the American
Social Hygiene Association and the
lnterdepartmental Social Hygiene
Board will assist.
The session of the institute will be
followed Immediately by the conven-
ing of the All-America Conference on
the Great Red Plague, which will con-
tinue for six days and will be attend
ed by the best-known physicians, ad-
ministrators, and other experts of the
: three Americas and particularly Of
the United States. The meeting of the
Institute and of the Conference in Sc
quence is believed by the Public
Health Service to afford an unpalal-
leled opportunity for medical men and
social workers to acquaint themselves
with the means an dmethods of war
fare against what is now generally
recognized as perhaps the greatest
single factor now impairing the pub
lie health.
The faculty of the Institute will
consist of Doctors ]. II. Stokes, Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Mimi; Hugh Young
Baltimore, Md; Thomas M. Ballet.
William A. White, Prof. M. A. Bige-
low, Katherone B. Davis, Mrs. Martha
P. Falconer, and some thirty or forty
other leading specialists.
During the ten days of the Institute
four full courses and eleven half
courses will be given OF the full
courses. the first three will consist Of
lectures on the diagnosis and treat
ment of the venereal diseases, and the
fourth will be on delinquent women
and their relation to the law. The
half. courses will be on the diagno-
sis of the mental condition of delin-
quent women; on protective work for
girls; the work of the venereal-dis-
ease nurse; heridity and eugenics;
sociology and social hygiene; public
education in venereal diseases; law
enforcement; sex psychology; clinic
management; and clinic social work.
Officers of state and city boards of
health. .clinicians, nurses, social
workers, judges, and pprobation Off
GERS of courts of domestic relations
and juvenile courts, police matrons,
police women, superintendent OF
eleemosynary institutions, chief of po-
lice medical officers of commercial in
stitutions, urologists, dermatologists,
gynecologists, nuerologists, phychol-
ogists, and officers of medical and So
Geological organizations are all eligi-
BILE for admission to the Institute.
| Others who wish to attend but who
are not included in these groups will
be expected to present credentials
from state or city health officers.
Application for admission should
be made as soon as possible in order
to enable thoes in charge of the In
stitute to make arrangements for the
educational facilities, comfort, and
pleasure of the guests. No applica-
tions will be accepted after November
Is except by special direction Of the
Sureap General. Applications that
have been sent in may, however, be
withdrawn, if circumstances make at
tendance impossible.
| All who desire will have ample op-
portunity for private conference with
the members of the faculty. No tut
tion is charged, the generaus coopera-
ito nof the faculty making this unnec-
cessary. Hotel accommodations will
be reserved II instructions therefore
are sent to the U. s. Public Health
Service, Washington. D. c.
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