The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1920-10-19
PUBLIC HEALTH. SERVICE
ORGANIZING INSTITUTES

Washington, D.. c., Oct. Ito
meet the steady increasing interest
| taken by the public generally and by
| tie medical profession particularly
in the war against the Great Red
Plague the U. S. Public Health Ser
vice has organized an institute on We
| neareal disease control and social hy-
gieae to be held in Washington, No.
vember % to December 4. At this
meeting health officers, private prac-
biologists, sociologists and others
who feel the need Of further inform
alton in regard to the twin diseases
of the red plague and in regard to
the different sciences that have help
ed in building up our now wide
knowledge concerning them, may OBJ
tain, free of all charge the benefit
of ten days intensive training by the
best experts, men and women, in the
country. In this work the American
Social Hygiene association and the
Inter-departmentel Social Hygiene
Board will assist.
The session of the Institute will
be followed Immediately by the con-
vening of the All-Amcrica Conference
on the Great Red Plague, which will
continue for six days and will be at
tended by the hest-know physici-
ans, administrators, and other ex-
perts of the three Americas and par
ticularly of the United States. he
meeting of the Institute apdfof the
Conference in sequence Is believed by
the Public, Health Service to afford
an unparalleled opportunity for
| medical men and social workers to
acquaint themselves with the means
and methods of warfare against what
is now generally recognized as per-
haps the greatest single factor now
impairina the public health.
During the ten days Of the insti-
tute 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 wo-
men and their relation to the law.
| The half courses will be on the dag
nosis of the mental condition of de-
linquent women: on protective work
for girls; the work of the venereal-
disease nurse; heredity and eugenics;
SOCIOLOGY and social hygiene; pub
lie 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 probation Off
GERS of courts of domestic relations
and juvenile courts, police matrons,
police women. superintendent OF
leleemosynary institutions, chiefs of
police, medical officers Of commercial
institutions. biologists, dermatolo-
gists neurologists, psychologists, and
officers of medical and sociological
organizations are all eligible to ad-
mission to the institute. Others who
wish to attend but who are not in
cluded in these groups will be expect
ed to present credentials from state
or city health officers.
| Application for administration
lshould be made as soon as possible
in order to enable those in charge OF
the institute to make arrangements
|for the educational facilities, comfort
land pleasure Of the guests. No appli-
cations will be accepted after Novem-
Der Is except by special direction OF
the Surgeon General. Applications
that have been sent in may, however
be withdrawn, If circumstances
makes attendance impossible.
All who desire will have ample
opportunity for private conference
with the members of the faculty. Nc
tuition is charged. the generous co.
operation of the faculty making this
unnecessary. Hotel accommodations
will be reserved If instructions there.
fore are sent to the U. s. Public
Health Service. Washington. d. G.