Excerpt from Introduction Studies in Social Hygine: A Series of Lectures Arranged by the Social Service Department of the University of Toronto for the Hamilton Social Hygiene Council
These addresses were arranged by the Social Service Department of the University of Toronto at the request of the Social Hygiene Council of Hamilton. The general plan was to give introductory studies of various aspects of the social problem of sexual abuse: no attempt was made to map out a programme in detail, and no one is responsible for any other's statements. The series was very warmly received, and, upon request, printed in The Public Health Journal, (with one exception, from its nature hard to reproduce), from which they are now reprinted without change.
The speakers represent a wide range of experience, which makes them only too well aware of the gravity of the subject. They have not dwelt too much on the physical and mental misery of venereal disease and its consequences, terrible and far-reaching as these are. They have turned rather to the means of cure, to the raising of the low standard of conduct, to the protection of the weak and irresponsible and the education of the ignorant, to some consideration of human nature, and the conditions of a healthy life in work and play, in thought and word and deed. They are deeply convinced that the best way to these ends is full and frank discussion, widespread knowledge, and massive facts, to create and arm a "new conscience against an ancient evil." They have tried to avoid the extremes of short-sighted despair and ill-founded confidence, and to present the problem as a challenge to science and humanity, in terms that give a reasonable ground for hope.
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