Smyrna times., 1943-07-01
HEALTH GROUP
STUDY PROBLEM
Dozen Different Organizations
in State Meet to Dis
cuss Plans
ELECT OFFICERS

Over a dozen different health,
welfare and educational organiza-
tions in the state were represented
at the Delaware Public Health As
sociation's second annual confer
ence held in Wilmington last Fri
day at the Y. M. c A. DR.. j. w.
Mountin, Assistant Surgeon Gener-
al of the u. S Public Health Ser
vice, Miss Ruth Hubbard, director
of the Visiting Nurse Society of
Philadelphia, and DR.. John Collin
son, health officer for Cecil County,
Nd, were the out of state speakers
on the all day program devoted to
consideration of the best ways to
meet the health needs of the COM
munity in the face of wartime
emergencies.
Mental Hygiene Stressed
"a healthy national mental at
titude cannot be realized unless
each individual is taught that in
tolerance, prejudice and suspicion
are destructive forces which lead
us to national calamity" said DR..
M. A Tarumianz, superintendent
of Delaware State Hospital, who
advocated that mental hygiene
classes be taught in the schools.
THE older generation" said the
speaker, cannot entirely eliminate
these factors, since they have been
part of the individual personality
for too long a time. 1t is only
through the public schools that we
can reach all the younger genera
ton, teaching them how to success
fully solve the national problems
which we rave blunlered into by
adjusting successfully their own in
dividual lives. 1 suggest that edu-
Gators, through the use of Human
Relationship classes, not only help
prevent functional mental illnesses
in the individual, but also help pro-
duce more satisfactory way of
life for the people as whole"
Work Well Together
That health and welfare groups
work we'll together in Delaware,
was stated by Merton j. Trask, ex-
ecutive secretary of the State
Board of Welfare, in his address at
the morning session. He urged
people to become more alert to the
social forces around them and to
have tolerance for and give cooper
attn to the new and different prac-
tices and PHILOSOPHERS in the health
and welfare fields which are at
tempting to meet the challenges of
war to the best of their abilities.
Officers Elected
DR.. C. H. Gehrman, medical di-
rector of the DUPONT Company, was
elected president of the Delaware
Public Health Association for the
coming year, succeeding DR.. Edwin
Cameron, executive secretary of
the State Board of Health who was
made a member of the board of
directors for a year term. Other
officers elected were: 1st vice-pres.,
DR.. M. A. Tarumianz, superinten-
dent of Delaware State Hospital;
End vice-pres., Mrs. Anna v. Cas-
tie director of the Wilmington Wis
iting Nurse Association; secretary,
Miss Grace Murray, R. ~, Will
mington supervisor State Board of
Health nurses; treasurer George
Ayars, Dover director of physical
education and health, State Depart
ment of Public Instruction. Other
directors named were G. Taggart
Evans, executive secretary, Della
ware Tuberculosis Society
and Mrs. Union Worthington of
Planned Parenthood. The Delaware
Public Health Association was
formed two years ago to bring in
terested persons and organizations
into close association for the pur-
pose of aiding in the promotion of
public health to provide scientific
advancement for members and to
extend and develop the public
health movement"