Hand book of the mental hygiene movement and exhibit.

  • National Committee for Mental Hygiene.
Date:
1913
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    The National Committee for Mental Hygiene 50 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK CITY President DR. LEWELLYS F. BARKER Vice-Presidents DR. WILLIAM H. WELCH CHARLES W. ELIOT Treasurer OTTO T. BANNARD Director of Special Studies DR. THOMAS W. SALMON Secretary CLIFFORD W. BEERS DR. GEORGE BLUMER, Chairman, Executive Committee PROF. RUSSELL H. CHITTENDEN, Chairman, Finance Committee DR. WILLIAM L. RUSSELL, Chairman, Committee on Survey DR. STEWART PATON, Director of Mental Hygiene Exhibit MEMBERS Mrs. Milo M. Acker, Hornell, N. Y. Jane Addams, Chicago Edwin A. Alderman, Charlottesville, Va. James B. Angell, Ann Arbor, Mich. Dr. Pearce Bailey, New York Dr. Charles P. Bancroft, Concord, N. H. Otto T. Bannard, New York Dr. Lewellys F. Barker, Baltimore Dr. Albert M. Barrett, Ann Arbor, Mich. Dr. Frank Billings, Chicago Surg.-Gen. Rupert Blue, Washington Dr. George Blumer, New Haven Dr. G. Alder Blumer, Providence Russell H. Chittenden, New Haven Dr. L. Pierce Clark, New York Dr. William B. Coley, New York Dr. 0\Ven Copp, Philadelphia Dr. Charles L. Dana, New York Charles W. Eliot, Cambridge Dr. Charles P. Emerson, Indianapolis W. H. P. Faunce, Providence Dr. Henry B. Favill, Chicago Di. Walter E. Fernald, Waveriey, Msss. Catherine S. Felton, San Francisco Irving Fisher, New Haven Matthew C. Fleming, New York Horace Fletcher, New York Homer Folks, New York James, Cardinal Gibbons. Baltimore Arthur T. Hadley, New Haven Henry L. Higginson. Boston Dr. August Hoch, New York Mrs. William James, Cambridge David Starr Jordan, Palo Alto, Cal. Harry Pratt Judson, Chicago John Koren, Boston Julia C. Lathrop, Washington Samuel McCune Lindsay, New York George P. McLean, Simsbury, Conn. Dr. William Mabon, New York Marcus M. Marks, New York Lee Meriwether, St. Louis Mrs. Philip N. Moore, St. Louis Dr. J. Montgomery Mosher, Albany Cyrus Northrop, Minneapolis Dr. Stewart Paton, Princeton Francis G. Peabody, Cambridge Dr. Frederick Peterson, New York Henry Phipps, New York Gifford Pinchot, Washington Florence M. Rhett, New York Jacob A. Rus, New York Dr. William L. Russell, White Plains, N.Y Jacob Gould Schurman, Ithaca Dr. Elmer E. Southard, Boston Dr. M. Allen Starr, New York Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., New Haven Melville E. Stone, New York Sherman D. Thacher, Nordhoff, Cal. Victor Morris Tyler, New Haven Henry van Dyke, D.D., Princeton Dr. Henry P. Walcott, Cambridge Dr. William H. Welch, Baltimore Benjamin Ide Wheeler, Berkeley. Cal. Dr. Henry Smith Williams, New York Robert A. AYoods, Boston The Chief Objects of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene are: To work for the protection of the mental health of the public: to help raise the standard of care for those threatened with mental disorder or actually ill; to promote the study of m;ntal disorders in all their forms and relations and to disseminate knowledge concerning their causes, treatment and prevention; to obtain from every source reliable data regarding conditions and methods of dealing with mental disorders; to enlist the aid of the Federal Government so far as may seem desirable; to co-ordinate existing agencies and help organize in each State in the Union an allied but independent Society for M;ntal Hygiene, similar to the existing Connecticut Society for Mental Hygiene. Inquiries re^ardin^ the work and requests for pamphlets issued by the organization should be addressed to Clifford W. Beers, Secretary, The National Committee for Mental Hygiene, Room 1914, No. 50 Union Square, New York City, or to Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, Director of Special Studies.