MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR
SOCIAL HYGIENE
ORGANIZATION
The Massachusetts Society for Social
Hygiene was organized in 1911 as a result
of the efforts of the late Dr. Charles W.
Eliot, Bishop Lawrence, and other in-
terested persons.
acquire and
established principles and practices which
promote and give assurance of promoting
social health; to advocate the highest
standards of private and public morality;
to suppress commercialized vice; and to
organize the defence of the community by
every available means, educational, medical
legislative against venereal
The Society thus has a record. of real
participation in the educational and general
preventive work against the spread of
venereal disease in the state.
Its purposes were to
knowledge of
the
diffuse
disease.
or
In April, 1928 the Society was reor-
ganized on
endeavor to foster more intensive educa-
a more active basis in the
tional work in social hygiene and to estab-
lish a working relationship with the State
Department of Public Health in its in-
vigorous
venereal disease especially through the
stimulation of better facilities for treat-
The Society is particularly fortu-
nate in its close association with the
State Department of Public Health which
creasingly
campaign
against
ment.
