Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-25
HYGIENE SOCIETY
!. NAMES DIRECTORS
Group Hears Reports on
Progress of Social Dis
6zi. ease Work.

The Social Hygiene Society of the
District of Columbia held it's annual
meeting last night at the Grace Dodge
Hotel, approved reports of past activ-
lies, elected additional members TO
the board of directors. and was ad-
dressed by DR.. Thomas Parran, jr., as
Sistant surgeon general, United States
Public Health Service. and William
Knowles Cooper. general secretary of
the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton.
Reports indicated that the society
has a membership of sos persons, and
has not only initiated valuable legisla-
ton for the prevention of social
diseases, but has sponsored education
al exhibits, public health meetings,
lectures in schools and business estab-
lishments, and aided in the work of
the District health clinic.
Other activities, educational and con-
structive, were outlined in detail. One
Of the aims of the society for 1927, it
was announced, will be to obtain an
adequate appropriation for the social
disease clinic of the District Health
Department.
Holds Standards Raised
DIR. Parran discussed the subject of
social hygiene from the standpoint of
public health, showing that the rails
ing of health standards contributes to
the raising of moral standards, and
stating that personal liberty is con-
fused too often with personal license.
More progress has been made in the
control of social diseases during the
past nine years than in any other
group of diseases, he said, and pub
lie enlightenment as a social hygiene
has undergone a remarkable trans
formation during the past decade.
Forty per cent of the high schools
now include in their programs some
such instruction, he stated, and there
are 900 cooperative clinics in the
United States.
After detailing the work of the
United States Public Health Service
in combating disease, DR.. Parran
stressed the need for the sound edu.
cation of the public in the facts in
volved in the study of social hygiene.
and said that sex instruction should
begin in the home
Mr.. Cooper spoke of the RESPONSE
bllltles of fatherhood, decrying the
tendency of modern fathers to let
schools and Institutions usurp their
obligations to their children.
New members elected to the board
OF directors were Howard Moran, DR..
Thomas Parran, jr.; Mrs. Otto Veer-
hof. Herbert S. Wood, DR.. Edith Coale.
Mrs. w. p. Roop and Mrs. William C.
MCNEIL, colored woman member of
the school board. DR. Robert Scott
Lamb, president of the society. pre-
sided, and DR.. Margaret Lotto Eek
reviewed the work of the past year.
DIR. Howard Fisher told of the work |
of the social disease clinic of the Dis |
trict Health Department, and empha- |
sized the necessity for the continuance
Of its activities
After the conclusion of the adj |
dresses. both of which emphasized the |
value of proper education along the |
lines of social hygiene, the society |
passed resolution noting with ap- |
prevail 1.-The increasing interest in So |
cial hygiene shown by teachers and |
educational leaders in Washington |
and at the same time calling the at |
tention of the school board and all |
others engaged in directing education |
TO the crying need of still greater
effort in behalf of all social hygiene |
instruction"