3.Q2 DISCUSSION 



academic or classic, excluding the biologic sciences. The unsanitari- 

 ness of schools is due to the same inefficiency in making practical use of 

 elementary sciences. We should advocate special effort to have men 

 who do school work taught social and personal biologic laws, and, 

 in public schools, to have boys receive in home-making ideals some- 

 thing comparable to what girls have, that men on their side may be 

 good home makers. 



The chairman requested Professor Wright, representative of 

 the Mechanics Institute at Rochester, to tell of his work. 



Prof. J. H. Wright, Rochester: I have been much interested in hear- 

 ing these papers, but feel that I have nothing to add at this time. I 

 came down to find out what is being done in this work, what is 

 needed in our work in which we are trying to train home-makers and 

 teachers of domestic science. We are attempting to do some of these 

 things in a very crude way, I will admit, but we hope to turn out a 

 body of young women who will go on with the work. 



The Chairman put to vote the resolution presented in her 

 address. It was unanimously endorsed as follows: 



Healthy parents, right customs and wholesome environ- 

 ment being essential factors in preventing infant mortality, 

 be it 



RESOLVED, That the American Association for Study 

 and Prevention of Infant Mortality urge that boards licensing 

 teachers for public schools give as detailed tests in elemen- 

 tary hygiene, sanitation and biology as in mathematics and 

 languages. ] 



i Later it was unanimously adopted in the general business cession of the 

 Association. 



