...that it would be short-lived ; that its work would be done publicly; that at best it could hardly do more than present recommendations. It was also believed...Bureau of Social Hygiene was formed in the winter of 1911. Its present members are Miss Katharine Bernent Davis, Superintendent of the New York State Reformatory...

...order to make a real and lasting improvement in conditions, a permanent organisation should be created which would go on, generation after generation, continuously making warfare against the forces of evil. Therefore, as the initial step, the Bureau of Social Hygiene was formed in the winter of 1911. The...

...dependent upon a temporary wave of reform . . . but which would go on, generation after generation. ... It also appeared that a private organization would...other advantages a certain freedom from publicity and political bias, which a publicly-appointed commission could not so easily avoid.8" Of course the Bureau...