Community Civics and Rural Life eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 466 pages of information about Community Civics and Rural Life.

Community Civics and Rural Life eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 466 pages of information about Community Civics and Rural Life.

The fight against the bubonic plague in California.

The work of the War Department to maintain the health of the soldiers during the recent war.  Volunteer agencies that cooperated in this work.

Work done in your community for the promotion of health by the
Department of Agriculture and the United States Public Health
Service.

The work of the Children’s Bureau of the Department of Labor.

The inspection of immigrants.

READINGS

Reports of local and state boards of health.

Publications of state agricultural college relating to public health.

Publications of the United States Public Health Service,
Washington.  The following are illustrative: 

Federal Public Health Administration:  Its Development and Present
Status.  Reprint No. 112, U. S. Pub.  Health Reports, 1913.

Public Health Reports.  Issued weekly.

Rural Sanitation, Pub.  Health Bulletin No. 94, 1918.

Health Insurance, Pub.  Health Reports, vol, 34, No. 16, 1919.

The Nation’s Physical Fitness, Pub.  Health Reports, vol. 34, No. 13, 1919.

Good Water for Farm Homes, Pub.  Health Bulletin No. 70, 1915.

Typhoid Fever:  Its Causation and Prevention, Pub.  Health Bulletin
No. 69, 1915.

Public Health Almanac (for current year).

What the Farmer Can Do to Prevent Malaria, Pub.  Health Reports,
No. 11, Supplement, 1914.

Fighting Trim:  The Importance of Right Living.  Supplement No. 5,
Pub.  Health Reports, 1913.

The Transmission of Disease by Flies, Supplement No. 29, Pub. 
Health Reports, 1916.

The Citizen and Public Health, Supplement No. 4, Pub.  Health
Reports, 1913.

The Department of Agriculture publications contain material relating to public health.  For example: 

Health Laws, Year Book, 1913, pp. 125-134.

Animal Disease and Our Food Supply, Year Book, 1915, pp. 159-172.

Public Abattoirs in New Zealand and Australia, Year Book, 1914, pp. 433-436.

Meat Inspection Service of the U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Year Book 1916, pp. 77-98.

Sewage Disposal on the Farm, Year Book, 1916, pp. 347-374.

Clean Water and How to Get It on the Farm, Year Book, 1914, pp. 139-156.

Dunn, the community and the citizen, Chapter IX.

Beard, C. A., American city government, pp. 261-282.

Among the Bulletins of the United States Bureau of Education treating of health matters are the following: 

1910, No. 5, American schoolhouses.

1913.  No. 44, Organized health work in schools.  No. 48, School hygiene.  No. 52, Sanitary schoolhouses.

1914, No. 10, Physical growth and school progress.  No. 17, Sanitary survey of the schools of Orange County, Va.  No. 20, The rural school and hookworm disease.

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