Euthenics: The Science of Controllable Environment

Euthenics

Better Environment for the Human Race

Contents

I. The opportunity for betterment is real and practical, not merely academic

II. Individual effort is needed to improve individual conditions. Home and habits of living, eating, etc. Good habits pay in economy of time and force

Community effort is needed to make better conditions for all, in streets and public places, for water and milk supply, hospitals, markets, housing problems, etc. Restraint for sake of neighbors

IV. Interchangeableness of these two forms of progressive effort. First one, then the other ahead

V. The child to be “raised” as he should be. Restraint for his good. Teaching good habits the chief duty of the family

The child to be educated in the light of sanitary science. Office of the school. Domestic science for girls. Applied science. The duty of the higher education. Research needed

VII. Stimulative education for adults. Books, newspapers, lectures, working models, museums, exhibits, moving pictures

Both child and adult to be protected from their own ignorance. Educative value of law and of fines for disobedience. Compulsory sanitation by municipal, state, and federal regulations. Instructive inspection

There is responsibility as well as opportunity. The housewife an important factor and an economic force in improving the national health and increasing the national wealth