The Washington times., 1922-10-13
HOOVER Offers
CHILD HYGIENE
J. ASPUbL|CDUTY
Generation Of Healthy Children
Would Solve Our Problems,
He Asserts.

EVERY child in America should
be free Of deleterious labor. should
participate in our great public
school system, and should have
full participation in the joys Of
childhood.
III we can give these oppor.
tunities to but one generation, the
great sector OF all our national
problems will have been solved"
Herbert Hoover. retiring presi.
dent of the American Child Hy.
giene Association, last night told
the association, now holding It's
thirteenth annual convention here,
that these are the great aims of
the organization.
Coordination of the activities OF
the several national organizations
having as their object the proper
development or the child should be
sought II the best results would
be obtained.
"The ideal to which we should
drive" Mr.. Hoover said, ''is that
there should be no child in Amerl.
ca that has not been born under
proper conditions. that does not
live in hysienic surroundings. that
ever suffers from ,undernutrition.
that does not have prompt and
efficient medical attention and in.
spection. that does not receive pri.
mary instruction in the elements
of hygiene and good health.
Ten Policemen for One Nurse.
"It .is the purpose of the associ.
atiOns to supplant ten policemen
with a single community nurse"
Mr.. Hoover officially ANNOUNCED
the consolidation OF the Hygiene
Association and the Child Health
Organiza tion Of America. Between
them, they have represented $40
voluntary organization concerned
with child welfare.
There is now available. Mr..
Hoover, announced, $230.000 per
year for demonstration in. every
phase Of child protection I'm three
cities. one In the Middle West. one
in the, West and one i'm the South.
This fund II a gift OF the Common.
wealth Foundation.
DR.. L. Emmett Holt, president
Of the Child Welfare Orga nizatiOn.
told the association last night that
the tendency Of the times Is the
merging Of national health as
sociations and closer cooperation
Of all child welfare agencies. :
I'm the last few years, marked
progress has been made In, solving
some Of the problems TO which we
have addressed ourselves, notably
those OF infant welfare. ~ said DIR.
Holt. What Is needed chiefly. IL
to continue to work along lines
OF proven value. In other direc.
lions we have, hardly made more
than "A beginning"
To Instruct Public.
1T Is an important function Of
our association to interpret the
'finds Of the laboratory inSestfga-
tor to the man in the street." he
said.
Dr., Holt emphasized the inpor.
tance Of transmitting to the public
accurate, trustworthy information
regarding all the aspects OF child
health. This propaganda In health
should be given to the public
through the motion picture, the
newspapers and the magazines, he
said.
Other speakers last night were
Sir Auckland Geddes. British am.
bassador and physician and child
welfare expert, and Miss Elizabeth
Fox. a registered nurse.
Today's speakers will be Homer
Folks, OF New York: Bailev b.
Burritt. OF New York: Courtenay
Dinwiddie. OF Washington: Elwood
Street. st. Louis: DIR. NJ. f. Cham.
pion. Of Boston. and Miss Margaret
Stack, Hartford.