XXIII. INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE 218 XXIV. THE LAST DAYS OF TUBERCULOSIS 229 XXV. THE FIGHT FOR CLEAN MILK 252 XXVI. PREVENTIVE "HUMANIZED" MEDICINE: PHYSICIAN AND TEACHER 268 PART IV. OFFICIAL MACHINERY FOR ENFORCING HEALTH RIGHTS XXVII. DEPARTMENTS OF SCHOOL HYGIENE 283 XXVIII. PRESENT ORGANIZATION OF SCHOOL HYGIENE IN NEW YORK CITY 296 XXIX. OFFICIAL MACHINERY FOR ENFORCING HEALTH RIGHTS 302 XXX. SCHOOL AND HEALTH REPORTS 310 XXXI. THE PRESS 322 PART V. ALLIANCE OF HYGIENE, PATRIOTISM, AND RELIGION XXXII. DO-NOTHING AILMENTS 329 XXXIII. HEREDITY BUGABOOS AND HEREDITY TRUTHS 335 XXXIV. INEFFECTIVE AND EFFECTIVE WAYS OF COMBATING ALCOHOLISM 343 XXXV. IS IT PRACTICABLE IN PRESENTING TO CHILDREN THE EVILS OF ALCOHOLISM TO TELL THE TRUTH, THE WHOLE TRUTH, AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH? 357 XXXVI. FIGHTING TOBACCO EVILS 363 XXXVII. THE PATENT-MEDICINE EVIL 369 XXXVIII. HEALTH ADVERTISEMENTS THAT PROMOTE HEALTH 378 XXXIX. IS CLASS INSTRUCTION IN SEX HYGIENE PRACTICABLE? 384 XL. THE ELEMENT OF TRUTH IN QUACKERY; HYGIENE OF THE MIND 391 XLI. "A NATURAL LAW IS AS SACRED AS A MORAL PRINCIPLE" 398 INDEX 405 CIVICS AND HEALTH PART I. HEALTH RIGHTS CHAPTER I HEALTH A CIVIC OBLIGATION In forty-five states and territories the teaching of hygiene with special reference to alcohol and tobacco is made compulsory. To hygiene alone, of the score of subjects found in our modern grammar-school curriculum, is given statutory right of way for so many minutes per week, so many pages per text-book, or so many pages per chapter. For the neglect of no other study may teachers be removed from office and fined. Yet school garrets and closets are full of hygiene text-books unopened or little used, while of all subjects taught by five hundred thousand American teachers and studied by twenty million American pupils the least interesting to both teacher and pupil is that forced upon both by state legislation. To complete the paradox, this least interesting subject happens also to be the most vital to the child, to the home, to industry, to social welfare, and to education itself.