Civics and HealthAllen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey)
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Civics and Health
Allen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey)
Hygiene; Public health
6. Cleanse the teeth, especially the places that are out of sight
and hard to reach.
7. Breakfast punctually at a regular hour. Eat lightly and only
what agrees with you. If you read a morning paper, be interested
in news items that have to do with personal and community
vitality.
8. Visit the toilet; if impracticable at home, have a regular time
at business.
9. Have several minutes in the open air, preferably walking.
10. Be punctual at work.
11. As your right by contract, insist upon a supply of fresh air
for your workroom with the same emphasis you use in demanding
sufficient heat in zero weather.
12. Eat punctually at noon intermission; enjoy your meal and its
after effects.
13. Breathe air out of doors a few minutes, preferably walking.
14. Resume business punctually.
15. Stop work regularly.
16. Take out-of-door exercise--indoor only when fresh air is
possible--that you enjoy and that agrees with you.
17. Be regular, temperate, and leisurely in eating the evening
meal; eat nothing that disagrees with you.
18. Spend the evening profitably and pleasantly and in ways
compatible with the foregoing habits.
19. Retire regularly at a fixed hour, making up for irregularity
by an earlier hour next night.
20, 21, 22. Repeat 4, 6, 8.
23. Turn underclothes wrong side out for ventilation.
24. Open windows.
25. Relax mind and body and go to sleep.
No man chronically neglects any one of the above rules without reducing
his industrial efficiency. No man chronically neglects all of them
without becoming, sooner or later, a health bankrupt.
In addition to this daily routine, there are certain other acts that
should become habitual:
1. Bathing less frequently than once a week is almost as dangerous
to health as it is to attractiveness.
2. Distaste for unclean linen or undergarments and for acts or
foods that interfere with vitality should become instinctive.
3. Excesses in eating or playing should be automatically corrected
the next day and the next. Parties we shall continue to have. It
will be some time before reasonable hours and reasonable
refreshments will prevail. Meanwhile it is probably better for an
individual to sacrifice somewhat his own vitality for the sake of
the union, the class, or the church. While trying to improve group
habits, one can acquire the habit of not eating three meals in
one, of eating less next day, of sleeping longer next night, of
being particularly careful to have plenty of outdoor air.
4. Visits to the dentist twice a year at least, and whenever a
cavity appears, even if only a week after the dentist has failed
to find one; whenever the gums begin to recede; and whenever
anything seems to be wrong with the teeth.
5. Periodic physical examination by a physician.
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