[19] Read before the American Public Health Association at Richmond, Va., October, 1909.
EUTHENICS, OR THE
SCIENCE OF CONTROLLABLE ENVIRONMENT
- Human efficiency and welfare due to
- Heredity (See Eugenics) and
- Environment
- 1. Natural, cosmical—climate—
- 2. Natural, modified by human effort
- Wet and dry soil
- Waterways and forests
- Food supplies
- 3. Artificial
- Housing—clothing—sanitation
- EUTHENICS—Conscious acquisition and application of scientific knowledge
- I. Science in the laboratory
- Discovery of laws of science
- Knowledge of cause and effect
- II. Dissemination of scientific knowledge
- Education
- III. Application of science
- Habits of living
- Technique
- Stimulus to civic improvement
- Constructive legislation
- I. Science acquired through laboratory and field research
- Universities
- Johns Hopkins, Clark, etc.
- Research institutes
- Rockefeller Institute
- Carnegie Institute
- Henry Phipps Institute
- Sage Foundation, etc.
- Sanitary Science = Application of acquired laws to
- 1. National welfare
- Hook worm, Pellagra, Yellow fever, etc., in Panama, The Philippines, Cuba, Porto Rico, etc.
- 2. Individual health of body and mind
- The people are reached by
- II. A. Dissemination of scientific knowledge through
- 1. Schools
- 2. Publicity
- a. Bulletins
- Boards of Health
- Department of Agriculture
- b. Lectures
- Municipal
- Endowed
- c. Magazines and newspapers
- d. Placards
- e. Commercial advertising
- Inventions of manufacturers
- Food fairs, electrical exhibitions, etc.
- 3. Expositions for limited purposes
- Mary Lowell Stone Exhibit
- “Boston 1915”
- 4. Health Campaigns
- Tuberculosis classes, etc.
- B. Legislation
- Restrictions
- III. Application of science to living
- A. 1. Unconsciously acquired habits of the CHILD, through imitation in the home, the school, the street
- 2. Conscious endeavor of
- a. the trained parents in the home
- b. the teacher in the school
- c. the policemen in the street
- B. Conscious personal effort of the ADULT to better conditions for himself and the community
- 1. Pioneer leading public opinion by
- a. Personal example in right living
- b. Precept and persuasion
- C. Community progress
- 1. Semi-public agencies for guarding itself and the individual
- a. Remedial measures
- Endowed hospitals, sanatoria, dispensaries, day camps and hospital schools
- Charity organizations—material relief
- b. Preventive measures
- Endowed schools (model and outdoor), extension movements, settlements, model tenements, model factories, garden cities
- Both are developed by social organizations, civic clubs, women’s clubs, museums, libraries, lectures, exhibits, statistical inquiries, etc.
- 2. Private agencies leading to legislation
- Special hospitals and schools
- Health organizations—sanitary inspection at model dairies—private water supply
- Consumer’s league
- 3. Legislation. Temporary paternalism (protection). Interpretation by individual becomes constructive. The people work out freedom under law
- a. City
- (1) Schools
- Grade and trade and outdoor
- (2) Police
- Building laws
- (3) Board of Health
- (a) Shelter
- Sanitary laws
- Air—light—refuse
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- Drainage
Garbage
Ashes - (b) Food
- Milk—water—foods
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- Food values
Adulterations - (c) Sanitary laws for public places
- Buildings
- Streets
- Sewer
- Ice on sidewalk
- Spitting
- (4) Beauty
- Height of buildings, bill boards, telegraph wires, parks
- (5) Amusements
- Playgrounds, municipal music, parks, aquarium
- (6) Other municipal activities
- (a) Traffic regulation
- (b) Medical inspection
- (c) Public baths
- b. State
- Education
- Board of Health
- Factory legislation
- Water supply (advisory power)
- Interstate commerce
- Food (advisory)
- Park reservations
- Textile laws
- Forest
- c. Federal
- Sanitation
- (a) Pure food laws
- (b) Quarantine
- (c) Immigration restriction
- (d) Future needs
- Textile laws, etc.
| Air—light—refuse | { | Drainage Garbage Ashes |
| Milk—water—foods | { | Food values Adulterations |