SOCIAL HYGIENE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17419, 5 March 1917, Page 5

SOCIAL HYGIENE.

MEETING OF TYUMEN.

As the result of the lecture recently delivered by Dr Platts Mills a meeting (convened by the commit teo formed at the original gathering) was held on Saturday in the Y.M.C.A. to establish a body of.women to be known as “The Social Hygiene” Society, to take up and prosecute an active campaign against tho social evils that so largely demand attention. The chair was occupied by Mrs J. H. Wilson, president of tbe society, and a member of the Hospital Board. Mrs Wilson chit-lined the aims and objects of the Social Hygiene Society, summed up in the watchword “ Knowledge is Power,” and stated that the sympathy of the Public Health Department would be practically shown by generous financial support. Mrs Wilson also spoke on the educational aspect of the question of social hygiene and pointed out the absolute need for mothers being the trusted and sympathetic confidantes of their children, rather than allowing them to seek information from doubtful sources, stressing the point that mothere 1 aro the builders and conservers of the race and the Empire and that it is id the home that “ habits are formed, character shaped and destiny fixed.” Nurse Maude spoke earnestly on the practical side of the'question and urged the necessity for plain dealing with Ugly facts. Sister Edith, who has. lately returned from England, 'dealt with the ethical ride of the subject, emphasising women’s tremendous responsibility in what she felt convinced was the beginning of a new spiritual era and declaring that when women realised the extent of their power for good and exercised it in insisting on a higher moral standard then and then only would society be . purified.