Eugenic bureaus, by collecting data concerning family histories and by emphasizing the importance of family stock, would naturally promote marriages among persons of good stock and thereby increase procreation of a desirable kind. The increase of good stock would raise the general level of the race, even if there were no decrease of poor stock, but we may safely assume that more definite knowledge would gradually lessen reproduction among the unfit.
The elimination of mental defects and diseases is after all principally a matter of education. We must learn by careful research what should be done and what should not be done and then disseminate the information so that it will be shared by every household. Action will slowly follow knowledge, but ultimately a more perfect race will be evolved.
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THOMAS W. SALMON, M.D., _Medical Director, The National Committee for Mental Hygiene_ FRANKWOOD E. WILLIAMS, M.D., _Associate Medical Director, The National Committee for Mental Hygiene_ WALTER E. FERNALD, M.D., _Superintendent, Massachusetts School for Feebleminded_ C. MACFIE CAMPBELL, _Director, Boston Psychopathic Hospital_ STEPHEN P. DUGGAN, PH.D., _Professor of Education, College of the City of New York_ STEWART PATON, M.D., _Lecturer in Neuro-biology, Princeton University_
The Significance of the Conditioned Reflex in Mental Hygiene, _William H. Burnham_ 673
The Elementary School and the Individual Child _Esther Loring Richards_ 707
Extra-Medical Service in the Management of Misconduct Problems in Children _Marion E. Kenworthy_ 724
Mental Hygiene and the College Student--Twenty Years After _Anonymous_ 736
Mental Hygiene Problems of Normal Adolescence _Jessie Taft_ 741
Suicide in Massachusetts _Albert Warren Stearns_ 752
The Function of the Correctional Institution _Herman M. Adler_ 778
What is a "Nervous Breakdown"? _Alice E. Johnson_ 784
Mental Hygiene and the Public Library _Mary Vida Clark_ 791
Inadequate Social Examinations in Psychopathic Clinics _Dorothy Q. Hale_ 794
Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention of Mental Disease _Horatio M. Pollock_ 807