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III. Effect on the germ-plasm of social diseases, alcholism, and 



the drug habit 



The inheritance of acquired characteristics 

 The effect of mental diseases in parents 



IV. Study of social evils and problem of education with regard to 



V. Development of child after birth 

 Physical development 

 Mental development 

 Adolescence 

 Race characteristics 



Effect of country life and town life on physical and mental 

 development 



VI. Review of theories of education as applied to types of children 

 School statistics showing rate of growth in boys and girls 



VII. Emotional development 



Education during adolescence 



VIII. Problems of city and State with reference to infant mortality 

 Effect of woman's industrial work on infant mortality 

 Study of laws of Europe and America as affecting woman in 



industry 

 Study of death statistics showing diseases and effect of the 



race on game 



IX. Civic efforts toward education of the foreign population of the 

 poor and ignorant in the large American cities so as to 

 reduce infant mortality 



French system with reference to infant mortality 



Pension system for mothers 



Necessity for survey of cities 



X. Institutional life 



Effect on death rate 



Effect on physical development 



Effect on mental development 



Cost to the country 



Remedies 



XL Reduction of birth rate and effect on population 



Duty of the educated in the preservation of the race 



XII. Child in industry 



Effect upon State laws and necessary legislation 



XIII. Study of environment 



XIV. The housing problem 



XV. The education of the will with reference to environment 



XVI. Study of nervous states and their hygiene 



DISCUSSION 



The Chairman: One of the strongest and most efficient supporters 

 of this movement for teaching home making has been the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. We are glad that Dr. Charles 

 Ford Langworthy represents the Department this afternoon. 



