Eugenics as a Factor in the Prevention
of Mental Disease
By
HORATIO M. POLLOCK, Ph.D.
Statistician, New York State Hospital Commission
THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR MENTAL HYGIENE, Inc.
370 Seventh Avenue
New York City
1921
The National Committee for Mental Hygiene
| Founded 1909 | Incorporated 1916 |
| 370 SEVENTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY | |
| President | Executive Committee | |
| Dr. Walter B. James | Dr. William L. Russell, Chairman | |
| Vice-Presidents | Dr. Owen Copp | |
| Charles W. Eliot | Stephen P. Duggan | |
| Dr. Bernard Sachs | Dr. Walter E. Fernald | |
| Dr. William H. Welch | Matthew C. Fleming | |
| Treasurer | Dr. Walter B. James | |
| Otto T. Bannard | Dr. George H. Kirby | |
| Committee on Mental Deficiency | Committee on Education | |
| Dr. Walter E. Fernald, Chairman | Dr. C. Macfie Campbell, Chairman | |
| Edith M. Furbush, Statistician Executive Officers Dr. Thomas W. Salmon, Medical Director Dr. Frankwood E. Williams, Associate Medical Director Dr. V. V. Anderson, Associate Medical Director Dr. Clarence J. D’Alton, Executive Assistant Clifford W. Beers, Secretary | ||
The National Committee for Mental Hygiene and its affiliated statesocieties and committees are organized to work for the conservation ofmental health; to help prevent nervous and mental disorders and mentaldefect; to help raise the standards of care and treatment for thosesuffering from any of these disorders or mental defect; to secure anddisseminate reliable information on these subjects and also on mentalfactors involved in problems related to industry, education, delinquency,dependency, and the like; to aid ex-service men disabled in the war, tocoöperate with federal, state, and local agencies and with officials andwith public and private agencies whose work is in any way related to thatof a society or committee for mental hygiene. Though methods vary, theseorganizations seek to accomplish their purposes by means of education,encouraging psychiatric social service, conducting surveys, promotinglegislation, and through coöperation with the many agencies whose worktouches at one point or another the field of mental hygiene.
When one considers the large groups of people who may be benefited byorganized work in mental hygiene, the importance of the movement at oncebecomes apparent. Such work is not only for the mentally disordered andthose suffering from mental defect, but for all those who, through mentalcauses, are unable so to adjust themselves to their environment as to livehappy and efficien