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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
Bibliography:
A Bureau of Child Hygiene (Bureau of Municipal Research), 298;
Annals of a Quiet Neighborhood (MacDonald), 110;
Aristocracy of Health (Henderson), 208;
Bitter Cry of the Children (Spargo), 33, 167;
Bulletins of Emmanuel Church, 391;
Bureau of Municipal Research, publications, 298;
Care of Dependent, Defective, and Delinquent Children (Folks), 174;
Charities and the Commons, 325;
Child Growth (Newsholme), 120;
Children of the Nation (Gorst), 33;
Children's Diseases, 326;
Clean Milk for New York City, 255;
clippings, 370, 382;
white-plague scrapbook, 250;
Committee on Physical Welfare of School Children, programme, 166,
three studies, 168;
Crusade against Tuberculosis (Flick), 229;
Dangerous Trades (Oliver), 203;
Dental Catechism, 94;
Dentistry, lectures and treatises, 274;
Deterioration, Physical, report on, 339;
Development of the Child (Oppenheimer), 110;
Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette, 326;
Efficient Life (Gulick), 208;
Environment of Child at School (North), 142;
Pure Food (U.S. Department of Agriculture), 379;
Good Health, 326;
Health of the School Child (Mackenzie), 132;
Heredity (Thompson), 336;
How to Give Wisely, 355;
International Congress, Tuberculosis, programme, 246-249;
Journal of Nursing, 326;
Making a Municipal Budget (Bureau of Municipal Research), 306;
Milk Industry, 252;
Municipal Sanitation in the United States (Chapin), 304;
National Hospital Record, 326;
New Basis of Civilization (Patten), 33;
New Jersey Review of Charities and Corrections, 325;
Pediatrics, 326;
Physical Culture, 326;
Poverty (Hunter), 167;
press and magazines, 322-328;
Prevention of Tuberculosis (Newsholme), 229;
Principles of Relief (Devine), 174;
Principles of Sanitary Science and the Public Health (Sedgwick), 304;
Psychological Clinic, 106, 326, 330;
Real Triumph of Japan (Seaman), 23;
Religion and Medicine (Emmanuel Church), 391;
reports of schools, 166;
reports of schools and health, 310-321;
reports of institutions and societies, 327;
reports of state and national conferences of charities and corrections, 327;
reports of United States bureau of labor, 203;
Sanitation of Public Buildings (Gerhard), 139;
School Reports and School Efficiency (Snedden and Allen), 311;
Social Order and the Saloon (Fox), 351;
Study of Children and their School Training (Warner), 110;
Study of School Buildings in New York City, 289;
Teeth and their Care (Hyatt), 94;
Training of the Human Plant (Burbank), 120;
Typhoid Fever (Whipple), 13, 16;
Uncommercial Traveller (Dickens), 46;
Unconscious Mind (Schofield), 110;
Vital Statistics (Newsholme), 131
Biggs, Hermann M., M.D., 237, 251, 271, 274, 295
Boston, 34, 155, 161, 241, 250, 290, 395
Boston Society for the Relief and Study of Tuberculosis, 155
Boyd, Emma Garrett, 355
Brannan, John Winters, M.D., 240
Breath, bad, 360, 379
Brightness, abnormal, 104-106
Bronchitis, 67
Brookline, 34
Budget:
should provide for cleansing, 61;
and tuberculosis, 237;
annual health programme, 306;
reforms in New York City, 350
Burbank, Luther, 120
Bureau of Municipal Research, 298, 306
Butler, Nicholas Murray, LL.D., 330, 332
Cabot, Richard C., M.D., 181
Calmette's Eye Test, 238
Carnegie Foundation, 285
Caroline Rest, 70, 267
Catching diseases:
cost of, 16;
unenforced laws, 30;
steps in eradicating, 31;
germ sociology, 57, 71;
favorable soil at school, 58;
instruction concerning, 62;
mouth a breeding ground for, 63;
information for bathers, 64;
dangers of, 131;
reasons for national board of health, 135;
cost of, in New York City, 272;
remedies urged, 384
Charity Organization Society, New York, 236, 239
Chicago, 34
Chicken-pox, 64
Child Hygiene, Bureau of:
working-paper tests, 192;
established, New York City, 298;
programme, 299
Child labor:
compulsory school attendance, 140;
welfare or age test, 142;
movement's limitations, 185;
national and local committees, 33, 192;
physical-fitness tests, 194
Children's Aid Society, New York, 56, 93
Child-saving agencies:
coöperation with schools, 174-183;
do-nothingism in, 332
Chorea. See Nervousness
Christian Science, 276, 392
Christmas shopping, 227
Cigarettes. See Tobacco
Cincinnati, 118
Cleanliness:
acquired taste, 14;
beauty of, 96;
personal uncleanliness, 210;
cost of, 216;
dry cleaning dangerous, 244;
in fighting tuberculosis, 250
Cleveland, Ohio, 294
Clippings:
scrapbook, 250;
envelope method, 324;
advertisements, 382
Coffee, strong, 401
Colds, 63-69
College, physical tests, 39
Committee on Physical Welfare of School Children, New York, 39-41, 166, 168, 178, 286, 290, 311
Compulsory laws:
school hygiene, 3;
purpose of, 33;
registration of catching diseases, 57;
removal of tuberculosis cases, 237;
notification of tuberculosis, 237, 274;
hygiene, for private schools, 283;
to remove physical defects, 288;
restricting alcoholism, 343
Conference on Summer Care of Babies, New York, 260
Congestion:
evils avoided, 290;
and alcoholism, 348
Conjunctivitis, 71. See Eyes
Connecticut's school reports, 318
Constipation, 210, 216, 347, 357
Consumption. See Tuberculosis
Corsets, 381, 401
Cost:
of preventable diseases, 16;
of bad breath, 98;
of diseases to nation, 135;
of tuberculosis, 245
Crampton, C. Ward, M.D., 129, 289
Dangerous trades, 191
Darlington, Thomas, M.D., 297
Death rates:
of bronchitis, 67;
of pneumonia, 67;
how to reduce, 131
Defects, physical:
index of community needs, 33-44;
removable, of children, 22;
schools manufacture, 139;
income distribution, 169
Delinquency, and mouth breathing, 47
Dental Hygiene Council, 95
Dental sanitation, 89-103;
surface for breeding germs, 63;
dentists, 93;
state organizations, 95;
clinics needed, 171;
insurance companies treat teeth, 204;
family instruction, 245;
indigestion, 272;
early treatises, 274;
advertising parlors, 281
Devine, Professor Edward T., 174
Diet:
cooking lessons at home, 180;
overeating, 201, 347;
improper, 210;
proper and regular, 212;
adapted to need, 214, 401;
kitchens, 267;
irregular eating, 272, 347
Diet kitchens, 267
Diphtheria, 18, 65
Dispensaries and hospitals:
dental supervision, 102;
coöperate with schools, 174-183, 185;
welfare nurse, 188;
emergency, 227;
to prevent duplication, 239;
lack of, 240;
teach baby feeding, 261;
inefficient, 278;
social interest of, 292
Doing things at school, 159-165;
free meals, 44, 161, 171;
may hurt, 181;
cripple social agencies, 185, 189;
danger of malpractice, 184, 189;
analogous to model tenements, 186
Do-nothing ailments, 329-334
Ear trouble, 83-85;
periodic tests for, 201, 207
Edinburgh, 70
Ellis Island, 238
Environment:
health problem, 9;
tests, 120, 320;
injurious school, 139-150;
effect on physique, 203;
and tuberculosis, 229-251;
do-nothing ailments, 329;
within our control, 336;
in combating liquor, 362
Epidemics, 18, 38
Epilepsy, 47, 49
Ergograph, 125-127
Erysipelas, 65
Ethics, professional, 81, 101, 281
Eugenics, and heredity, 336
European remedies, 159-165
Eye trouble, 72-82;
in high school, 40;
catching diseases, 69-71;
caused by bad teeth, 89;
eyeglasses, free, 161, 164, 171, 184;
in business, 193;
examination for adults, 201;
tuberculin test, 238;
inefficient inspection of, 300;
teachers' test, 301
Examination, physical:
of school children, 33-138;
best test of health needs, 33-44;
individual record of, 35, 312;
Snellen test, 73, 77;
of teachers, 153;
for work certificates, 190-200, 237, 301;
by railroads, 193;
at West Point, 199;
periodic after school, 201-207, 218, 228;
semi-annual, 202;
tuberculin tests, 240;
stripped, at Leipsic, 289;
follow-up work, 295-300;
of teachers and sex hygiene, 389
Family:
unit of social treatment, 174;
examining parties, 237, 241;
tuberculosis histories, 241
Fear and bodily disorders, 392
Flick, Lawrence F., M.D., 229
Follow-up work, 295-301
Fox, Hugh F., 351
Fresh air:
others' standards of, 9;
fiends, 66;
outings, 176, 178;
economic value of, 195;
ventilation at school, 142;
ventilation at home, 210;
ventilation at work, 212;
ventilation at sanatoriums, 214;
ventilation at churches and theaters, 217.
See Air
Georgia, 350
Germany, 160, 204
Germs, disease:
in milk bottles, 14;
isolation, 31;
germ sociology, 57-71;
dental sanitation, 89-103;
locating germ factories, 238;
tuberculosis, 234
Getting things done, 166-173;
doing of highest kind, 183;
study underlying causes, 189;
by local agencies, 287
Glands, 88
Goler, George W., M.D., 196
Gorgas, William C., M.D., 59
Government. See Administration
Greenwich House, 287
Grenfell Association, 197
Grippe, 379
Gulick, Luther H., M.D., 123, 208
Habits of health, 208-217;
combat tobacco, 364;
mental hygiene, 394;
and Nature Fore, 400
Hartley House, 287
Hartley, Robert M., 252
Havana, 60
Hawthorne Club, 287
Headache, 210
Heredity, 335-342
High schools need physical tests, 39
Hip trouble. See Tuberculosis
Home conditions:
indexed by epidemics, 32;
indexed at school, 33;
among different incomes, 39;
cooking instructions, 180;
weighing parties, 241;
score card, 337;
promote alcoholism, 348
Hughes, Governor Charles E., 201
Hunter, Robert, 167
Hyatt, Thaddeus P., D.D.S., 94
Impetigo, 65
Income, 34, 38, 39
India, 108
Indigestion:
anti-social, 10;
due to teeth, 272
Individual record card, 35, 312-314
Industrial hygiene:
educates laborers, 131;
factory conditions, 221, 227;
factory reforms, 403;
employers, 3, 210, 218, 360, 367;
employees, 202, 211, 219, 228, 360
Influenza, 65-68
Ingram, Helene, 177
Insomnia, 392
Inspection:
of milk, 26, 259;
score cards, 27, 29, 337;
of school children, 43, 61, 296;
of factories, 131;
of milch cows, 260;
of transmissible diseases, 295;
of foods, 307
Instinct, motive to health, 12, 14, 94
International Congress on tuberculosis, 238, 245
Itch, 65
Japan, 23, 287, 309
Junior Sea Breeze, 267
Kansas City, 161
Kidney trouble, 217
Labrador, 197
Lavatories, public, 217
Laws:
nonenforcement demoralizing, 4;
define rights, 23;
when not enforced, 25;
should not injure health, 151;
enforcement better than character, 219;
regarding milk, 258;
licensing practitioners, 280;
need machinery, 303, 348;
to control liquor, 343, 355;
test of prohibition, 353;
on patent medicine, 373;
on pure foods, 379
Leipsic, 289
Louisiana, 350, 376
Lung trouble. See Tuberculosis
Machinery, health:
unsatisfactory coordination, 296;
necessary, 302-309;
five elements, 303
Mackenzie, W. Leslie, M.D., 132
Magistrates:
promote disorder, 173;
enforce health laws, 303
Malnutrition, 35;
income distribution, 39;
signs and tests, 86;
prevention of, 184;
education of family, 241
Massachusetts, 74
Maxwell, Superintendent William H., 286, 288
Measles, 64
Mental hygiene, 391-397;
blues, anti-social, 10;
hospital welfare work, 182;
moral clinics, 276, 291, 295;
and insomnia, 392
Meyer, William, M.D., 47
Milk:
unclean dairies, 10;
scalding receptacles of, 17;
carries typhoid, 18;
inspector's outfit, 24;
tests of protection, 25;
score cards, 26, 259, 337;
public should know, 219;
fight for pure, 252-267;
New York conferences, 255, 260;
breast feeding, 266
Milk committee, New York, 258, 260
Minnesota, 45, 269
Misgovernment causes sickness, 10
Mitchell, S. Weir, M.D., 73
Montclair, 265
Mosquitoes, 59, 307
Motives, seven health, 11-22, 377
Mouth breathing, 45-56;
and delinquency, 47;
adenoid parties, 55;
causes deafness, 83;
injures baby teeth, 89;
industrial disadvantage of, 195;
in Labrador, 197;
preventable defect, 272;
inefficient inspection of, 300
National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis, 236, 246
National Board of Health, 133, 292, 308
National Bureau of Labor, 199
National Bureau of Census, 305
National Bureau of Animal Industry, 306
National Bureau of Education, 171, 292
National Playground Association, 118
National School Hygiene Association, 139
Nature Fore and Nature Back, 398-403
Negroes and alcoholism, 350
Nervousness, 85;
and school life, 108;
physical defects, 110;
preventable, 111;
causes of, 112;
habit, 111, 113;
from tobacco, 363
Neurasthenia. See Mental Hygiene
New Jersey, 12
Newsholme, Arthur, M.D., 120, 131, 229, 241
New York City, 16, 25, 34
New York Juvenile Asylum, 47
New York state, 12, 24
New York State Charities Aid Association, 236, 242
Nicotinism. See Tobacco
Normal schools, 110
North, Professor Lila V., 142
Notification of diseases, 31, 41
Nuisances, 17, 18, 23, 366
Nurses at school, 230, 286, 293, 300.
See Milk
Oliver, Thomas, 203
Orthopedics. See Tuberculosis
Ophthalmia, 65
Oppenheimer, Nathan, M.D., 110
Osteopathy, 275
Panama, 59
Parents:
and school hygiene, 3;
interested by examinations, 41;
should coöperate with physician, 279;
interested in school examinations, 297;
need health reports, 310;
heredity, 335-342;
nicotinism, 368
Parks and playgrounds, 7, 32, 118, 122, 142, 186, 290, 294
Parochial schools, 189, 198
Patent medicines:
evils of, 369-377;
advertisements, 380
Patten, Professor Simon N., 9, 14, 33, 165
Pediculosis, 69-71
Pennsylvania, 311
Philadelphia, 34
Phthisis. See Tuberculosis
Physical training, 115-117;
in New York City, 296;
and sex hygiene, 387
Physician:
preventive medicine, 268-282;
and eyes, 81;
semi-annual visit to, 204;
self-advertisement, 378;
school, 173, 286, 293, 315
Physiological age, 105, 289, 387
Pittsburgh, 269
Plague, 15, 57
Pneumonia, 67, 379
Preventable diseases:
those not communicable, 272.
See Catching Diseases
Private schools, 189, 198, 283, 291, 330
Prohibition laws, 348, 350, 355
Pro-slum motive, 19-20
Public Education Association, New York, 287, 298
Publicity, 45, 81, 99, 292, 310-321, 382
Quarantine, first, 15;
national, 308
Records:
of disease centers, 31;
defective, 32;
individual, 35, 312-314
Reform's failure, 349
Registration:
of diseases, 31
Relief, material:
sound principles of, 174;
at school, 175, 179, 184;
indiscriminate, harmful, 332
Richman, Julia, 172
Riggs disease, 92
Rights:
political, 21;
not enforced, 23-32;
of workmen at work, 190;
machinery for enforcing, 283-322
Riis, Jacob, 18
Ringworm, 65
Rochester, N.Y., 262, 266
Rome, 15
Roosevelt, Theodore, 60, 118
Rural districts:
encourage disease, 13;
compared, 32;
physical defects, 74;
schools unsanitary, 141;
hygiene in Great Britain, 308
Russia, 108
Sage Foundation, 285
St. Vitus's dance, 111
Salmon, Professor Lucy M., 355
Scabies, 65.
See Itch
Scarlatina, 65
Scarlet fever:
thrives in slums, 18;
signs and method of infection, 65;
"peeling," 132;
compulsory removal of cases, 240;
germ carried in milk, 264
School hygiene:
and employers, 3;
instruction compulsory, 3-10;
practice of, 5, 18;
biological engineering, 139, 203, 339;
departments of, 283-293;
in New York City, 294, 296-301
Score cards, 27, 29, 259, 337
Scranton, 269
Sea Breeze fresh-air home, 176
Sea Breeze seaside hospital, 9, 240
Seaman, L.L., M.D., 23
Seattle, 161
Sedgwick, Professor William T., 304
Sex hygiene, 384-389
Sexual deviates, 182
Shoes, tight, 401
Sickness, preventable, cost of, 278
Sleep and vitality, 201, 272
Slum, a menace, 13, 20
Smallpox:
epidemics great teachers, 6;
conquered by vaccination, 7;
neglected in rural Pennsylvania, 18;
comes rarely to cities, 31;
compulsory removal of cases, 240
Snedden, Professor David S., 33, 165, 311
Snellen eye test, 73, 77
Society for Sanitary and Moral Prophylaxis, 384
Southern states, 351
Spargo, John, 33, 167
Spitting, 223, 235
State activity, 4, 73, 121, 236, 292, 306
Statistics, object of, 131, 134, 333
Strauss, Nathan, 260
Streets, 15, 122, 217, 254, 348
Study hours, too long, 287
Sweating, 152, 211
Taxes, taxpayers. See Budget
Teacher's health:
tests of, 152-158
Teachers:
social work, 172;
health passport, 202;
for tuberculous pupils, 237;
excluded when tuberculous, 242;
and physicians, 279;
physical examination of, 284;
use of alcohol, 358;
cigarettes, 368;
use clippings, 382
Teeth. See Dental Sanitation
Temperance. See Alcoholism
Tenement reforms, 20, 186, 209, 304, 403
Thompson, J. Arthur, 336
Tobacco:
instruction at school, 3;
economic injuries of, 201;
forbidden to employees, 210;
evils of nicotinism, 363-368, 386
Tonsils, hypertrophied, 44
Trachoma, 69-71
Trudeau, E.L., M.D., 274
Tuberculosis:
pupils excluded from school because of, 65;
aggravated by colds, 68;
bone tuberculosis, 87, 88, 236;
and bad teeth, 90, 99;
in teachers, 153;
examination for working papers, 191;
periodical examination for, 201;
last days of, 229-251;
eye and skin tests for, 240;
tests of cows, 260;
carried in milk, 264;
out-of-door treatment, 274;
only predisposition to, inherited, 335
Typhoid:
a rural disease, 13;
carried in milk, 264
University Extension Society, 178
Vacation schools, playgrounds, 109, 296
Veiller, Lawrence, 9
Vitality tests and statistics, 124-138
Water, drinking:
reason for works, 15;
factories pollute, 17;
fountains, 217;
public responsibility for, 226;
protecting sources, 307
Welfare work, 7, 221-225
West Point, 199
Wheeler, Herbert L., D.D.S., 93
Whipple, George C., Ph. D., 13, 16
White plague. See Tuberculosis
Whooping cough, 64
Williams, Alida S., 72, 122
Williams, Linsly R., M.D., 241
Work:
physical examination for working papers, 190-200, 285;
healthful habits, 208-217;
unpatented medicine, 334.
See Industrial Hygiene
Young Men's Christian Association, 227

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