Civics and HealthAllen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey)
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Civics and Health
Allen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey)
Hygiene; Public health
2. A symposium on the relative value of each of the features in an
aggressive campaign against tuberculosis:
a. Compulsory registration.
b. Free sputum examination.
c. Compulsory removal of unteachable and dangerous cases.
d. Laboratory research.
e. Hospital.
f. Sanatorium.
g. Dispensary.
h. The tuberculosis class.
i. Day camp.
j. Private physician.
k. Visiting nurse.
l. After-care of arrested cases.
m. Relief fund.
n. Climate.
o. Hygienic instruction,--personal and in class.
p. Inspection of schools and factories.
q. Educational propaganda.
IV. EARLY RECOGNITION AND PREVENTION
1. Importance of discovering the persons who have tuberculosis
before the disease has passed the incipient stage.
2. Examination of persons known to have been exposed or presumably
predisposed.
3. Systematic examination of school children during their course
and on leaving school to go to work.
4. Professional advice as to choice of occupation in cases where
there is apparent predisposition to disease.
V. AFTER-CARE OF ARRESTED CASES
1. Instruction in healthful trades in the sanatorium.
2. Training for professional nursing in institutions for the care
of tuberculous patients.
3. Farm colonies.
4. Convalescent homes or cottages.
5. Aid in securing suitable employment on leaving the sanatorium.
6. How to deal with the danger of a return to unfavorable home
conditions.
VI. EDUCATIONAL METHODS AND AGENCIES
1. Special literature for general distribution.
2. Exhibits and lectures.
3. The press.
4. Educational work of the nurse.
5. Labor organizations.
6. Instruction in schools of all grades.
7. Presentation and discussion of leaflets awarded prizes by the
congress.
VII. PROMOTION OF IMMUNITY
1. Development of the conception of physical well-being.
2. Measures for increasing resistance to disease:
a. Parks and playgrounds.
b. Outdoor sports.
c. Physical education.
d. Raising the standards of living: housing, diet,
cleanliness.
3. Individual immunity and social conditions favorable to general
immunity.
VIII. RESPONSIBILITY OF SOCIETY FOR TUBERCULOSIS
1. A symposium of representative
a. Citizens.
b. Social workers.
c. Employers.
d. Employees.
e. Physicians.
f. Nurses.
g. Educators.
h. Others.
Cash prizes of one thousand dollars each are offered: (1) for the best
evidence of effective work in the prevention or relief of tuberculosis
by any voluntary association since 1905; (2) for the best exhibit of a
sanatorium for working classes; (3) for the best exhibit of a furnished
home for the poor, designed primarily to prevent, but also to permit
the cure of tuberculosis.
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