SOCIAL HYGIENE CONGRESS

Hokitika Guardian, 7 March 1931, Page 2

SOCIAL HYGIENE CONGRESS

MEETING IN JULY. ■MEDICAL AND PROPAGANDA WORK. Ilia Fifth Imperial Social Hygiene Congress, organised by the British Social Hyg'ene Council, will met in London on July Li to 17 under the l>residency of Sir Basil Blackett, K.C. 13., K.C.S.r. r l'he Congress will open with a review by ike L.;,minion and Colonial representatives of the general position in relation to socral hygiene and venereal disease throughout the Empire and will he followed by the presentation of “pn/rrcfs” reports l'rOm the Dominions and India.

'l'lie general <|urstion of dealing with the problem will be raised in a praotical manner by a demonstration of various types of propaganda material and by discussions on the methods ill use and the results obtained in various parts of the Empire. On this aspect of the question papers are specially in. voted from the dominions. medical and social woiuc, A feature bf the Ift 11 Congress will be the holding of concurrent sessions on certain days, The medical sessions will be concerned with papers on methods of dealing with ante-natal venereal disease and the results that can he obtained in the mother and child, cm the choice of remedies in syphilis, and oil sterility. A display of medical and educational films illustrative of the subjects under discussion will he given. Concurrently with medical sessions the wives of members and women working overseas will he invited f>y the (engross to consider the steps which can be taken in the dominions to build up ancillary social services in support of medical treatment schemes. And, at .another session, the Congress will consider how the Universites can encourage the teaching of the biological science in secondary schools. On this occasion the views o* the services overseas, the English Public Schools and the. Universities will he expressed. CUSTOMS AND lIYGFENCE. A session of the Congress of particular interest to missionaries, teachers and others working overseas will he that devoted to the consideration of the problem of social customs related to social hygionce. Special attention will also ho given, to those customs which facilitate the dissemination of venereal disease. Tile concluding sessions of the Co tigress will have alt international as well as tin Imperial character. A joint season will be held with the Union Internationale Con tre 1e Peril Venonpit to consider “follow-up" work from treatment centres. The international situation with regard to venereal disease and social hygiene will be discussed between the Union Internationale, the British Social Hygiene Council and representatives of the League of Nations and the International Labour Office.

SUMMER SCHOOL. Overseas representatives attending He Imperial Con cress will find it convenient to attend the Sixth Social Hygiene Summer School which will be held at St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, between July 29 and August 5. The scientific courses will be found to be of particular value in connection with the problems arising in the- social hygiene field in the overseas Empire. A course of lectures on biology and human life will be given by Sir J. Arthur Thomson, lately Regius Professor of Natural History at Aberdeen University. Professor Winifred Cullis and Dr Feldman will lecture on the phvsiology of adolescence, Professor Cyril Burt, the psychologist oi the Education Department of the London County Council, and Dr M illiain Brown, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy at the University of Oxford, will deliver a series of addresses on the contributions of psychology to the problem of social hygiene. Special facilities null be given for seminars and informal discussions. Overseas officials on leave at the time of the Congress and the Summer School desirous of attending either of both of these gatherings can obtain full particulars from the British Social Hygiene Council, Carteret House, Carteret Street, London, S.W.I.