Notes

THE MENTAL HYGIENE MOVEMENT FROM THE PHILANTHROPIC STANDPOINT is the title of a new publication from the Department of Philanthropic Information established ten years ago by the Central Hanover Bank and Trust Company of New York. The anonymous author of this 73 pp. booklet writes:

The term "Mental Hygiene", much overworked and frequently misused by charlatans and quacks, means simply health of mind. And the mental hygiene movement has for its great objective a higher standard of mental health for the peoples of the world… So new is the mental hygiene movement that few, outside of professional circles, are aware of how it has come about, what it has achieved, what it hopes to achieve, and what support it must have if its hopes are to be realized. Because of the very great importance of the movement all this should be known, and the present little volume is therefore timely and of very distinct value. In the brief compass of its seventy-three pages it traces interestingly and in non-technical language the gradual change of the conditions which so long stood in the way of the mental hygiene movement, its advent, its progress and its present-day position. The volume is written from a distinctly philanthropic standpoint; its purpose to acquaint the public with the enormous importance of the mental hygiene movement, and to secure for it, if possible, a more adequate support.