The Washington times., 1930-05-06
ASKS SPREAD
Of MENTAL
HYGIENE
Conference Here Told Rate
of Suicide Has increased
FourtoId in Past 70 Years

IS0 Clinics TO study CnS SL1U"
tional and mentally defective
types of men, women and chill
dren as it is to maintain the
present disease prevention sta
tons throughout the country. DIR.
Haven Emerson, Of the College
Of Physicians and Surgeons Of
New York, declared today at the
First International Congress on
Mental Hygiene at the Willard
Hotel.
He pointed out that in the last
20 years the suicide ratio has In.
creased from 4.9 to 1877 per
100000 population in the United
States.
4 Million Problem Children
Comprehensive figures based on
0 study by physicians and social
workers from every section OF
the United States show, DR..
Emerson said that, counting on
a population of 10000, 900, you
will find:
-Four million, five hundred
and sixty thousand children
under five years of age will
show some behavior problems
which if mot corrected win lead
to personal or family disturb.
ance; ESQ. 600 between the ages
of 5 and IS will suffer from
major speech defects; q similar
number will need special class
training because Of mental de-
fects, and 3,135,OOO will develop
some behavior problem that
calls for professional assistance.
Quarter-DTilIiOn DelinquentS
an addition 25O,8OO school
children before they are IA
will be held at least tempo
rariIy as delinquents; $4,000
men and women from 20 to "a
will suffer emotional diff
CuIties.
"We can assume that at
least 2SS,6OO will need the ad-
vice of q psychiatrist within the
year and that Of the 1,443,OOO
who will become major depen-
dency problems, 216,45O will be
in families in which there Is q
case of mental disorder"
DemagOgic Reflexes
The Ku Klux Khan was held
by DR.. Adolf Meyer. pSychiatrist
In chief of Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, Baltimore, as one of a
group of demagogic societies re-
sponsible for revolt and conse-
quent advancement of mental
hygiene. He said:
MENTAL hygiene made great
progress as a vital and crea-
tive movement in the midst of
destructive tendencies which
followed the war - anti-uplift\
campaigns. the revolt against
prohibition and a doubt as to
the S0undneSS of organized
church movements owing to
their real or suspected asSOcia-
ton with the ku Klux Khan
and similar demagOgic groups"
DR.. K. Herman Bouman, Am
Sterdam professor of psychiatry
and neurology, declared that it
is through mental hygiene the
alcoholic problem eventually will
be solved.
Commenting upon the use OF
alcohol, he declared that even q
small amount of the drug creates
a mental condition amounting to
delirium and that the result is
the imbiher loses his entire sense
of proportion and perspective.
other Speakers and Topics
other speakers and their sub
iects today were: Dc. Hans Roo
mer. of the German Association
for Mental Hygiene, Public Opin-
ion on Both Aid and Detriment
to Mental Hygiene" DR.. Edouard
toulouse, medical director OF the
Paris psychopathic hospital, THE
Organization of the Psychiatric
Hospital and It's Role in Social
Life; DR.. C. Macfie Campbell,
Boston psychopathic hospital,
"The Work of the Psychopathic
Hospital"
LIZ Z OdAAOb Va NAACC4s ia NooNACs
scare of the Insane Outside OF
institutions" Prof. z. Rubin,
Munich. Germany, The Signifi-
canoe of Eugenics and Genetics
for Mental Hygiene" and DR..
Genil-Perrin, Paris, Social Di-
seases and their Relation to Men
tai Hygiene"
A humber Of group meetings
and clinical discussions will be
held at the Willard and Washing
ton hotels tonight. representatives
of So nations to contribute to
the meetings.
DR.. Wilbur Speaks
DR.. Ray Lyman, Wilbur. Secre-
tary of the Interior, last night
addressed the delegates at q ban
uuet at the Willard Hotel. He
emphasized the point that fam
ing hatreds will soon die when
the workings of the human mind
are thoroughly understood.
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