The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-21
CHILD He al TIL
BODY combines
l0 S0CIE TIES
Herbert Hoover Heads Asar
citation, With Distinguish
List Of Board Membership
ENC 0URAGE | OcAL EFFO /
Officers Oppose Over Cen.
trallzation ii Their Work
for Children Of Az Aces

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The District 81 Columbia win
be represented ii the new Amer
lean Child Health Association M
! distinguished group of men ana
women prominent in the public
life Of the National Capital, ac.
cording to an announcement Just
issued by the association.
Herbert Hoover Is president ii
the association Its treasurer rs
Corcoran Thorn, Trustee uf tie
Corcoran Art Gallery and vice-presIs
dent OF the American Security ana
Trust Company, while among those
elected as directors are Surgeon
General Hugh s. Cumming, of the
~. 8. Public Health Service: Grace
Abbott, Chief Of the Childrens
Bureau, u. s. Department OF Iahpr:
TaliaferrO Clark. Director Child
Hygiene. u. 8 Public Health
Service; John Al. Foote. PrOfesspf
Of Pediatrics. Georgetown Univefs
sfty; Mrs. Franklin K. Lane: Anna
q. Rude, M. D., director. Division
sof Child Hygiene. ChiIdrenss
Bureau; Joseph s. Wall, M. ID.
.pediafrist; and william g. Woo
ward M d, executive secret ~
Bureau Cf Legal Medicine ana
Legislation. American Medical
AssOc iafl0u.
REPRESENTS MERGER.
This association Is ! naerner 81
the American CIafld Hygiene Also
citation with the Child Heath Or
ganizatior 81 America, which lare
heretofore covered different phases
Of child health work. Primarily
the merger was effected FOR tie
purpose Of co-Ordinating All child
welfare work in America. II doing
this however. the American Child
Health Association win not attcnIpf
to establish any dominating central
body. On the contrary one of ift
objects, as announced n by Mr..
Hoover himself, il as follows:
To see that all effort on behalf
Of children shall be built upon the
rock Of responsibility in local COM
munities, not upon the shiftink
sands Of Decentralization. =
For thirteen years the American
Child Hygiene Association has been
fighting Tor better conditions fck
mother and child. During thai
time 1t has secured the affiIiatiufl
Of 81 organizations In the United
States and Canada, on whom ii
depends for the promotion Of its
Ideals locally. It's aims are to
give the mother protection at Re
Of pregnancy and adequate al b
ton at time Of birth; to see that
the baby and the pre-school child
have proper food, medical care Tor
the prevention Of Illness and n1slI-
cal correction for physical defe g.
The Child Health Organizaf an.
on the other hand, has been con.
cerned with the welfare OF the
school child. It's aims are health
supervision during school life and
education in health as an attrac-
tive subject in the nations schools,
so that American boys and girls
may acquire through many motives,
even Through play, health HABITS
that will secure them sound ply.
Sique.
FILLS BOTH FUNCTIONS. -
The American Child Health ~.
ISOLATION then, by uniting these
societies, will cover the whole cyele
VI SAAAAA 111Csr 11OEOOVGE IL VIII
to stimulate laggard communities
to some appreciation OF the work
that may be done for children. It
will seek to direct the enormous
activity throughout the country On
behalf of mothers and children ain
a scientific manner by specially
trained men and women. Tt win
aim to have this applied science
reach every corner of the country
and every child in every corner.
For that purpose it win need daie
cooperation of all existing socie.
ties, the aid of every professional
worker, whether. doctor, nurse, $50.
cial service worker or public health
officer, and ultimately Of every
parent in the home.
In addition to Mr.. Hoover and
Mr.. Thorn, the officers Of The
American Child Health Association
include L. Emmett Holt, M. hi.
first vice president; Livingston Far.
rand. M. D., president of Coriiell
University and former chairman %
the American Red Cross, second
vice president: Thomas D. Wood,
of Columbia University, third vice
president; Philip Van ingen, NJ. 81.
former chairman of the executive
American Child Hy-
giene Association, secretary.
National headquarters are at $50
Seventeenth street, Washington. u,
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