New Haven has definite advantages over many for developing and carrying on a broad social hygiene program. Its social welfare activities are so organized as to indicate recognition by the community of a considerable group of social problems. This fact, in addition to its being a great university town and a center for medical training, a city whose residents realize the need for constructive social betterment, and a city whose public recreational and educational systems have been well organized, make New Haven a community with unusual opportunities for becoming a model city in the field of social hygiene. Some of the essentials for such a demonstration have been recognized and well provided for; other opportunities have been allowed to pass. It will be attempted in this report to call attention to the manner in which New Haven is dealing with social hygiene problems and to point out those features of the present activities concerning which experience in other cities and states suggests some change; also to propose for consideration certain additional measures.
* Summary of a survey made by the American Social Hygiene Association in cooperation with the New Haven Health Department, the Yale School of Public Health, and the United States Public Health Service. The social hygiene survey is a portion of a general survey of the city's health undertaken by New Haven and now nearing completion. This summary was presented as a report on the social hygiene survey on February 1, 1927.