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THE BRITISH SOCIAL HYGIENE COUNCIL.
881 and woman welcomed his presence among them. Granville-Barker has had a difficult task in providing an English version which is not a but a real adaptation for the English stage. Just here and there the crisp French epigram has given place to an English sentence which is not quite so telling, but on the whole the rendering is an exploit.
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BRITISH SOCIAL HYGIENE COUNCIL. THE National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (Incorporated), of 102, Dean-street, Oxfordstreet, London, W., will henceforth be known as the Social Hygiene Council. The resolution to this change of name was passed at an extraordinary general meeting of the Council held on 6th, and it will be submitted for confirmation April SCHOOL FEEDING. at a second meeting of the Council to be held on THOSE interested in food at schools will find in May 4th. The arguments in favour of this change, Science Progress (April, 1925, p. 643) a readable as set forth by the Council, are interesting in that common-sense survey of the subject by Dr. G. E. they show the progress which has been made in Friend, medical officer to Christ’s College. Institu- embracing the widest aspects of the venereal diseases tional dietetics labours under many disadvantages problem. The Council consider that the need that from which the domestic life is free. Fair criticism originally existed for emphasising the fact that seems to be hardly possible ; the recipients habitually venereal disease was a public health problem is not criticise everything adversely to such a degree that so acute after the last ten years of propaganda on the providers are driven into maintaining even the the subject. The work of the Council during the indefensible positions into which ignorance, careless- last two years has extended considerably along ness, and monotony may have led them. It is, too, preventive lines. This brings the representatives of no doubt true, as Dr. Lyttelton has lately emphasised, the Council into touch with many social and that a certain amount of discipline in food is a most educational bodies that are anxious and willing to desirable part of the training in self-control which consider problems relating to the development of Here, self-control and a higher standard of sex conduct every school must of necessity undertake. again, there is the perennial difference of opinion among the rising generation. The attainment of between the pupils and most of the parents on the a higher standard of sex conduct is essential for the one hand, and the schoolmaster on the other as to complete elimination of venereal disease, but it is when fair discipline ends and tyranny begins. Dr. by no means necessary, nor in fact desirable, the Friend is neither pupil nor master, and his testimony Council holds, to give such educational lectures is of the more value. With an average age of about under the title of venereal disease, as the field covered 14, he judges that about 3000 or perhaps 3200 calories is so much wider, and for this purpose many groups a day is the right amount, given in three meals at 8, can be reached under the title Social Hygiene that 1, and 6, with a supper snack for the older boys. Work would not be accessible under the old title. The in school before breakfast, and even chapel, he entirely Board of Trade and the Ministry of Health have condemns, and holds that breakfast must be a sub- both notified their approval of the proposed- change stantial meal-meat, fish or porridge, with jam or to British Social Hygiene Council. In order not marmalade, and unlimited bread and butter. Too to break all links with the past, the Council suggests short a time is often allowed for meals, and he points that the words " lately National Council for Comout that the smaller boys who get served last are apt bating Venereal Diseases " may be inserted under the to suffer most. Lack of variety and adaptability, new title on certain publications. Thus we may bad and slovenly service, and poor cooking are other announce the Second Imperial Social Hygiene Confaults which he mentions. He urges that these ference, which is to be held in October at the British defects become less apparent if the whole school Empire Exhibition, Wembley, as organised by the -of, say, 500 boys, is served from a central kitchen National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases. rather than in separate houses, because really expert This conference is the outcome of requests received superintendence can be secured. Little is said about from overseas, and the whole of three days, from vitamins. Dr. Friend evidently takes the sensible Oct. 5th to 7th, will be given to a discussion of view that they are apt to be overdone nowadays Imperial problems. with some neglect of calories and protein. But he is emphatic that butter must be provided, and not THE LETTERS OF GUY PATIN. margarine. The known difference is that butter F. with sundry addiDr. promotes growth and margarine does not ; and this tions the R. Packard has reprinted which articles interesting very appeared in raises one of the many curious questions which have "Annals of Medical History," Vol. IV., Nos. 2, 3, and 4. come up in the recent flood of interest in what we eat. It is generally accepted without question that it is The book is chiefly made up of extracts from Guy letters to his various correspondents which wholly desirable that young persons should be grown Patin’s to the maximum possible size, and that a boy 6 feet give a life-like picture of medical affairs in Paris the seventeenth century, and it opens with high is a better product than one 6 inches shorter- aduring useful historical résumé of the period, an undera reasonable build being always premised. Putting aside all but purely materialistic considerations, one standing of which is necessary for the right appreciaThe tion of Patin’s letters. These letters, which were not wonders what justification there is for this. for publication, contain the most amusing youth of to-day certainly provide the most lovely written and often singularly caustic reflections upon his are a and of girls ; they spectacles big growing boys physicians, whether individuals or corporations joy to look at, but are they going really to be healthier brother such as the Apothecaries, and also upon statesmen or more effective citizens than their meagre grandhighest places, such as Richelieu or parents ? They will certainly be more expensive, for even in the After the fashion of Vergil, who desired his they have more to keep up. There is a clinical Mazarin. impression that largely built people stand illness executors to burn the MS. of the Eneid, Patin asked badly; the late influenza was repeatedly reported to his chief correspondent Spon to burn his letters, be particularly fatal to the hearty and robust, and it but luckily for literature neither request was granted. is possible that the American insurance companies Among the private and family matters contained in is may find out later on that over-size is as disadvan- the letters Dr. Packard quotes one letter which an account of the death particularly delightful, giving as Life often seems to last extra tageous over-weight. Patin’s mother-in-law. Writing to Spon, he says : long in tiny bodies. But even if small people are of " Do not weep much for the death of my mother-inof size the still the healthier, prestige may encourage it. She was a good woman, rich young to grow as much as they can. Small people law, she was not worth and avaricious, who feared nothing so much as death, are often rather touchy on the subject of stature ; which nevertheless seized her quite suddenly at the so much so that it might be inadvisable to give the stature of some of our greatest people, lest that should 1 Guy Patin and the Medical Profession in Parisin the Sevenbe the one of their qualities which they least desireteenth Century. By Francis R. Packard, M.D. New York: to be broadcasted. Paul B. Hoeber. 1925. Pp. 334. $4.
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man
translation,
BRITISH SOCIAL HYGIENE COUNCIL. THE National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases (Incorporated), of 102, Dean-street, Oxfordstreet, London, W., will henceforth be known as the Social Hygiene Council. The resolution to this change of name was passed at an extraordinary general meeting of the Council held on 6th, and it will be submitted for confirmation April SCHOOL FEEDING. at a second meeting of the Council to be held on THOSE interested in food at schools will find in May 4th. The arguments in favour of this change, Science Progress (April, 1925, p. 643) a readable as set forth by the Council, are interesting in that common-sense survey of the subject by Dr. G. E. they show the progress which has been made in Friend, medical officer to Christ’s College. Institu- embracing the widest aspects of the venereal diseases tional dietetics labours under many disadvantages problem. The Council consider that the need that from which the domestic life is free. Fair criticism originally existed for emphasising the fact that seems to be hardly possible ; the recipients habitually venereal disease was a public health problem is not criticise everything adversely to such a degree that so acute after the last ten years of propaganda on the providers are driven into maintaining even the the subject. The work of the Council during the indefensible positions into which ignorance, careless- last two years has extended considerably along ness, and monotony may have led them. It is, too, preventive lines. This brings the representatives of no doubt true, as Dr. Lyttelton has lately emphasised, the Council into touch with many social and that a certain amount of discipline in food is a most educational bodies that are anxious and willing to desirable part of the training in self-control which consider problems relating to the development of Here, self-control and a higher standard of sex conduct every school must of necessity undertake. again, there is the perennial difference of opinion among the rising generation. The attainment of between the pupils and most of the parents on the a higher standard of sex conduct is essential for the one hand, and the schoolmaster on the other as to complete elimination of venereal disease, but it is when fair discipline ends and tyranny begins. Dr. by no means necessary, nor in fact desirable, the Friend is neither pupil nor master, and his testimony Council holds, to give such educational lectures is of the more value. With an average age of about under the title of venereal disease, as the field covered 14, he judges that about 3000 or perhaps 3200 calories is so much wider, and for this purpose many groups a day is the right amount, given in three meals at 8, can be reached under the title Social Hygiene that 1, and 6, with a supper snack for the older boys. Work would not be accessible under the old title. The in school before breakfast, and even chapel, he entirely Board of Trade and the Ministry of Health have condemns, and holds that breakfast must be a sub- both notified their approval of the proposed- change stantial meal-meat, fish or porridge, with jam or to British Social Hygiene Council. In order not marmalade, and unlimited bread and butter. Too to break all links with the past, the Council suggests short a time is often allowed for meals, and he points that the words " lately National Council for Comout that the smaller boys who get served last are apt bating Venereal Diseases " may be inserted under the to suffer most. Lack of variety and adaptability, new title on certain publications. Thus we may bad and slovenly service, and poor cooking are other announce the Second Imperial Social Hygiene Confaults which he mentions. He urges that these ference, which is to be held in October at the British defects become less apparent if the whole school Empire Exhibition, Wembley, as organised by the -of, say, 500 boys, is served from a central kitchen National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases. rather than in separate houses, because really expert This conference is the outcome of requests received superintendence can be secured. Little is said about from overseas, and the whole of three days, from vitamins. Dr. Friend evidently takes the sensible Oct. 5th to 7th, will be given to a discussion of view that they are apt to be overdone nowadays Imperial problems. with some neglect of calories and protein. But he is emphatic that butter must be provided, and not THE LETTERS OF GUY PATIN. margarine. The known difference is that butter F. with sundry addiDr. promotes growth and margarine does not ; and this tions the R. Packard has reprinted which articles interesting very appeared in raises one of the many curious questions which have "Annals of Medical History," Vol. IV., Nos. 2, 3, and 4. come up in the recent flood of interest in what we eat. It is generally accepted without question that it is The book is chiefly made up of extracts from Guy letters to his various correspondents which wholly desirable that young persons should be grown Patin’s to the maximum possible size, and that a boy 6 feet give a life-like picture of medical affairs in Paris the seventeenth century, and it opens with high is a better product than one 6 inches shorter- aduring useful historical résumé of the period, an undera reasonable build being always premised. Putting aside all but purely materialistic considerations, one standing of which is necessary for the right appreciaThe tion of Patin’s letters. These letters, which were not wonders what justification there is for this. for publication, contain the most amusing youth of to-day certainly provide the most lovely written and often singularly caustic reflections upon his are a and of girls ; they spectacles big growing boys physicians, whether individuals or corporations joy to look at, but are they going really to be healthier brother such as the Apothecaries, and also upon statesmen or more effective citizens than their meagre grandhighest places, such as Richelieu or parents ? They will certainly be more expensive, for even in the After the fashion of Vergil, who desired his they have more to keep up. There is a clinical Mazarin. impression that largely built people stand illness executors to burn the MS. of the Eneid, Patin asked badly; the late influenza was repeatedly reported to his chief correspondent Spon to burn his letters, be particularly fatal to the hearty and robust, and it but luckily for literature neither request was granted. is possible that the American insurance companies Among the private and family matters contained in is may find out later on that over-size is as disadvan- the letters Dr. Packard quotes one letter which an account of the death particularly delightful, giving as Life often seems to last extra tageous over-weight. Patin’s mother-in-law. Writing to Spon, he says : long in tiny bodies. But even if small people are of " Do not weep much for the death of my mother-inof size the still the healthier, prestige may encourage it. She was a good woman, rich young to grow as much as they can. Small people law, she was not worth and avaricious, who feared nothing so much as death, are often rather touchy on the subject of stature ; which nevertheless seized her quite suddenly at the so much so that it might be inadvisable to give the stature of some of our greatest people, lest that should 1 Guy Patin and the Medical Profession in Parisin the Sevenbe the one of their qualities which they least desireteenth Century. By Francis R. Packard, M.D. New York: to be broadcasted. Paul B. Hoeber. 1925. Pp. 334. $4.
Mr.
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