Civics and HealthAllen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey)
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Civics and Health
Allen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey)
Hygiene; Public health
While it is true that the most important bibliography one can have in
his private library is a classification of the material of which he
himself has become a part while reading it, there are a number of
health journals that one can profitably subscribe for. In fact, it is
often true that the significant discoveries in scientific fields, or
the latest public improvements, such as parks, bridges, model
tenements, will not be appreciated until one has read in health
journals how these improvements affect the sickness rate and the
enjoyment rate of those least able to control their living conditions.
The physician and nurse in their educational work for hospitals are
distributors of health propaganda.
Wherever there is a local journal devoted to health, parents, teachers,
educators, and club leaders would do well to subscribe and to hold this
journal up to a high standard by quoting, thanking, criticising it. In
New Jersey, for example, is a monthly called the _New Jersey Review of
Charities and Corrections_ that deals with every manner of subject
having to do with public health as well as with private and public
morality and education.
A similar journal, intended for national instruction, is _The Survey_,
whose topical index for last year enumerates two hundred and thirty-two
articles dealing with subjects directly connected with public hygiene,
e.g.:
Schools, 6; school inspection, 3; eyes,--school children, 1; sex
instruction in the schools, 2; psychiatric clinic, special
children, 2; industrial education, 5; child labor, 18;
playgrounds, 26; alley, crap, playing in streets, 3; labor
conditions, 18; industrial accidents, 10; wage-earner's
insurance, 4; factory inspection, 1; consumer's league, 3; women's
work, 6; tuberculosis, 23; hospitals, dispensaries (social), 5;
tenement reform, 10; living conditions, 2; baths, 1; public
comfort stations, 2; lodging houses, 1; clean streets, 6; clean
milk, 6; smoke, 1; noises, 1; parks, 1; patent medicines, 2;
sanitary code, 1; mortality statistics, 2; social settlements and
public health, 1; midwives, 1; children's bureau, 1; juvenile and
adult delinquent, 25; dependent, defective, and insane, 7; blind,
5; cripples, 1; homes for aged, 1; inebriates, 3; Traveler's Aid
Committee, 1; infant mortality, 2; social diseases, 2.
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