Civics and HealthAllen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey)
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Civics and Health
Allen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey)
Hygiene; Public health
Nature Back throws little light upon conditions necessary for modern
labor. It can do nothing but demand the abolition of the factory, the
big store, the tenement, the school. Nature Fore says we cannot abolish
the means of working out the highest forms of cooeperation. But we can
make them compatible with natural living. We can modify conditions so
that earning a livelihood will not compel workers to violate natural
law at any or all times. The greatest need of factory and tenement
reform is for parents and teachers to make a religion of Nature Fore
and to instill its principles in the minds of children. Parents and
teachers must live the natural before they can make children love the
natural. Parents and teachers cannot possibly be natural in this day,
cannot live or love natural law unless they know the machinery by which
their communities are combating conditions prejudicial to health,
morals, and civic efficiency.
INDEX
Adenoids. See _Mouth breathing_
Administration, health:
steps in evolution, 11-22;
knowledge of needs, 220;
machinery, 302-309;
in combating alcoholism, 362;
departments of health:
(1) New York City, 26, 27, 47, 48, 61, 71, 84, 296-298, 302;
(2) general, 265, 281
Advertisements:
motives for, 8;
for dental parlors, 100;
for consumptives, 234;
by physicians, 281;
educational, in newspapers and magazines, 323;
"no smoking" signs, 365;
of patent medicines, 369;
that promote health, 378-383
Agassiz, Louis, 398, 400
Air, night, 216.
See _Fresh air_
Alcoholism, 343-362;
compulsory instruction in, 3;
insurance companies against, 7;
disqualifies for railroad service, 193;
depletes vitality, 201;
results, 209;
Hartley's fight against, 253;
injures the tuberculous, 274;
ineffective ways of combating, 343;
incited by bad living conditions, 348;
injury to negroes, 350;
so-called moderate use, 358;
labor unions blacklist drunkards, 361;
social dangers, 386;
mental hygiene, 392, 396
Animal sanitation, 252, 260, 307
Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, New York, 177,
236, 253
Babies. See _Milk_
Bathing:
motives for, 8, 13;
a social requirement, 14;
cold-water, 214
Beauty, reason for health, 15
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