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For this purpose the Commission issues a series of pamphlets. Hitherto the
following subjects have been treated of: the importance of heredity for the health
of the people, the care of children and home education. In preparation are pamph*
lets about temperance, thrift and the desertion of the countryside. The pamphlets
are spread by 180 cultural societies, situated in the Swedish districts, and have
been issued in 30,000 copies. They ought to reach most of the Swedish homes
in Finland.
As it is beyond doubt that the written word in many cases is of less effect
than the spöken, persons specially trained for the purpose will, as far as the
means of the Commission allow, be employed to carry on the propaganda. They
are to spread knowledge through leetures and above all through personal in*
struction in the homes. For the said purpose persons interested in the work and
not paid for it will act as assistants. They are chiefly reeruited from a woman’s
association under the name of the »Martha society», working in every part of the
country for twenty years, which has made it their object to spread knowledge in
every home. The society is well organized and has specially gone in for teaching
the housewives how to take care of their homes; it has with the greatest success
spread the knowledge of cooking, women’s handiwork and gardening. The care
of children is also part of their programme and it co*operates with the Commis*
sion in the above mentioned awarding of prizes to mothers.
This information work, carried on by the above mentioned paid and unpaid
workers, will comprise the introduction of rational care of children, a campaign
against tuberculosis, temperance work, shortly family hygiene in the most extensive
meaning of the word.
As soon as the Commission had laid out the plan of work, pointed out
above, it became evident to the members that a reconstruction of the Commis*
sion into an independent society must be undertaken. A proposal to this effect was
handed in to the board of the Literary Society, whose approval was gained. The
board promised to hånd over most of the funds, the interest of which the society
had a right to dispose of, to a new society, to be organized for this purpose.
In March this year the newly formed society held their constituent meeting
and took the name of »Samfundet Folkhälsan i Svenska Finland» (Society for
improving public health in Swedish Finland).
The society will in all essential points follow the principles laid down by
the Florin Commission. It consists of working and supporting members. The
working members are divided into two sections: one scientific and one practical.
More than half of the members of the sections belong to the Helsingfors Uni*
versity teachers’ stafif.
At present the working members are the following: Amos Anderson (busi*
ness man), Robert Ehrström (professor of medicine), Harry Federley (leeturer
on genetics, sercetary to the Society), Jarl Hagelstam (professor of neurology, vice
president of the Society), Oskar von Hellens (professor of hygiene), C. M. Ho*
henthai (medical practitioner, archivist to the society), Fanny Hult (president of
the central board of the Martha Society), G. Landtman (leeturer on sociology),
Albert Lilius (professor of pedagogics), Ernst Lindelöf (professor of mathematics),
Wilhelm Pipping (professor of pediatrics), Henrik Ramsay (doctor of philosophy,
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