A Hand book for speakers on public health pt.1, 1912-13, Part 1American Medical Association Press, 1912 |
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Page 48 - Public Health is the foundation on which reposes the happiness of the people and the power of a country. The care of the public health is the first duty of a statesman.
Page 149 - Medicine, and the American Association for the Study and Prevention of Infant Mortality was organized as a result of this meeting.
Page 20 - What magnificent dwellings, what noble palaces were then depopulated to the last person, what families extinct, what riches and vast possessions left, and no known heir to inherit, what numbers of both sexes in the prime and...
Page 48 - As remarks a suggestive writer, the first requisite to success in life is "to be a good animal," and to be a nation of good animals is the first condition to national prosperity.
Page 102 - Facts, however, show that mortality varies in different places and is decreasing as hygiene comes into use. The length of life in Sweden and Denmark is over fifty years; in the United States and England about forty-five; in India less than twenty-five.
Page 44 - It is possible for the fly to carry the typhoid bacillus in two ways. In the first place fecal matter containing the typhoid germ may adhere to the fly and be mechanically transported. In the second place, it is possible that the typhoid bacillus may be carried in the digestive organs of the fly and may be deposited with its excrement.
Page 169 - ... have been tried and found effective. BREAST FEEDING. Competent investigators state that the deaths among children under three months of age, either wholly or partly fed on artificial foods, are fifteen times as great as they are if fed on breast milk. Under normal conditions about twenty children out of every thousand under three months of age die of diarrheal diseases if fed upon breast milk alone, but if artificially fed instead of twenty dying as many as three hundred will die from this cause....
Page 73 - Finally, let us remember that the conservation of our natural resources, though the gravest problem of today, is yet but part of another and greater problem to which this Nation is not yet awake, but to which it will awake in time, and with which it must hereafter grapple if it is to live—the problem of National efficiency, the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the Nation.
Page 19 - ... they have buried six, eight, or more: nor was there any to follow and shed a few tears over them; for things were come to that pass, that men's lives were no more regarded than the lives of so many beasts.
Page 127 - ... total population, according to the Census Bureau's forthcoming bulletin on mortality statistics for 1909 submitted to Census Director Durand by Dr. Cressy L. Wilbur, chief statistician for vital statistics. It is reported that, of the 569 deaths from infantile paralysis, 552 were of white and only 17 of colored persons. There was a somewhat greater incidence of disease among males and an increased mortality in August, September, and October. The...