Evening star., 1921-10-02
SOCIAL HYGIENE
TO Be DISCUSSED
District Women to Benefit by
Three-Day Institute to
Open Tuesday.

/ Women of the District of Columbia
will benefit by a three-day institute
and conference on social hygiene to
begin Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock
in the Interior Department audi
! torium. It has been arranged under
the auspices of the District health
department, the United States public
! health service. the District Social
| Hygiene Society and the women's
! advisory council of the public
health service.
Theeoming institute Is a result of
the success of the institute on We
neredi disease control and social hy-
giehe held here last autumn, and is
ono of number arranged for va
rious states. Its object is to create
thorough understanding of the
great problem to be faced and to
focus on specific needs of the local
health program the interest and eff
forts of local leaders and leaders of
! such large national women's organi-
cations as are residents of Wash
ington.
DR.. Haxen to Preside.
DR.. H. II. Hazen, chairman of the
bureau of public health education of
| the District of Columbia Social Hy-
giene Society, will preside over the
opening session, devoted to the topic
of The Problem From the~sIedical
Angle" DR.. D. NJ. o. Robinson of
the public health service and Dr..
Kate karpeles. Mrs. Edith Houghton
Hooker of Baltimore and Miss Mar
garet S. Brogden. chief of the social
service department of Johns Hopkins
| Hospital, Baltimore, will also discuss
venereal disease from the various
standpoints.
! At the second session at p.m. the
topic is Sex Education as a Pre-
ventive," the speakers scheduled being
DR.. Abram Simon, DIR. William F.
Snow. DR.. Rachel S. Yarros, Rev. John
NJ. Cooper and Dr.. Benjamin c.
| Gutenberg. A general meeting has
/ been arranged for o'clock the same
evening at the Central High School
| auditorium. DR. William C. Fowler,
District health officer. will preside
and the speakers announced are DR..
George M. Kober, Dr. C. C. Pierce,
Miss Grace Abbott and DR.. William
F. Snow. DR.. Yarros, Or. Valeria H.
| Parker and Mrs. Maud Wood Park.
Judge Sellers to Speak.
The institute will reconvene at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning in the
Interior Department auditorium, the
general theme being "a New Com
science and an Ancient Evil" There
will be another session at 2 pm.
Wednesday, at which one of TIE
speakers will be Judge Kathryn Sell
lers of the Juvenile Court, while at 10
am. Thursday there will be a special
conference on the work and problems
Of the District, with round table dis
cussions on clinic service, informing
the community and social protection.
Over this gathering Mrs. Whitman
Cross. president of the Council of So
eial Agencies and of the Instructive;
Visiting Nurse Society. will preside.
PatrOnesses Of Conference.
Patronesses of the institute and con-
ference are Miss Mary Anderson, Mrs.
George Barnett, Miss Mabel Board
man. Mrs. George w. Cook, Mrs. Whit
man Cross. Mrs. Hugh S. Cumming,
Mrs. James j. Davis, Mrs. E. c. Dav-
ison, Mrs. Stephen B. Elkins, Mrs. Liv-
Iingston Farrand, Miss Charlotte Hard
ing, Mrs. Howard L. Hodgkins, Mrs.
Herbert Hoover, Mrs. Charles E.
Hughes. Mrs. Merritte W. ireland.
Mrs. Ado1ph Kahn, Mrs. H. B. Learned.
Mrs. Henry Marquand, Mrs. Raymond
B. Morgan, Mrs. Frank Morrison, Mrs.
Ellen Sencer Mussey, Miss Mary
O'Toole, Mrs Maud Wood Park, Mrs.
c. c. Pierce, Mrs. J. r. Phelps, Mrs.
Olive Ross, Mrs. CunO H. Rudolph,
Mrs. Emma S. Shelton. Mrs. Abram
Simon, Mrs. Lyman B. Swormstedt,
Mrs. r. H. Terrell, DIR. Ada r. Thomas,
Mrs. Walter s. Ufford, Mrs. Carolyn
Votaw, Mrs. Henry c. Wallace, Mrs.
Charles b. Wood and Mrs Hubert
Work.