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managing director of The Finland Steamship Company, treasurer to the Society),
Emma Saltzman (member of the central board of the Martha Society), Ossian Schau*
man (professor of medicine, president of the Society), Robert Tigerstedt (professor
of physiology), Wilhelm Udd (master builder) and Axel Wallgren (professor of
general pathology and pathological anatomy).
Sub*committees of the Society are already
founded both in Åboland and in Ostrobothnia
and branches are being founded in several pa*
rishes.
It is highly desirable for the Society as soon
as possible to found a special institute for re»
search in heredity. A fund of Fmk. 50,000: —
exists already and just lately a sum of Fmk.
300,000: — has been bequeathed to them for the
same purpose. However very little can be done
with the interest on these funds. It is to be
hoped that some patrons of science will give
their aid towards the realization of this extre*
mely important work, the more so as the Society
in the person of its secretary, Dr. Harry Feder*
ley has a scientist, who possesses the necessary
ability for undertaking the management of such
an institute.
Among the first tasks of the scientific sec*
tion of the Society may be pointed out an acco*
unt of the national character in Swedish Finland,
and further an anthropological research of the Swedish population, on the same
plan as the one that will be followed in a proposed corresponding examination
in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.
As regards the practical hygienic work of the Society it is worth mentioning
that temperance work must in the nearest future be made an object of special
attention. The reason is: since total prohibition was introduced two years ago in
Finland drinking has increased in a most alarming way in certain parts of the
country, especially in the coast regions of South Finland, where the population is
of Swedish origin. Through smuggling of spirits from the neighbouring Esthonia
the people earn large sums. They leave their honest callings, farming and fishing
and become addicted to an immoderate desire for intoxicating drinks. The go=
vernment has granted pecuniary subsidies to the Society for the campaign against
intemperance and thus made it possible to carry on the said propaganda with
greater intensity than could otherwise be done. A happy circumstance is that our
renowned physiologist, professor R. Tigerstedt, has undertaken to conduct this work.
Immediately after the constituent meeting the Society issued a proclamation
to the Swedish population of Finland, in the shape of an artistically illuminated
»table», printed on cardboard, which is to be sent out in about 60,000 copies.
It contains a number of commandments about the hygiene of the people, which
run as follows:
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