The Untilled Fields of Public Health (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Inhaltsangabe

Excerpt from The Untilled Fields of Public Health

According to the Director of the Census the hye principal causes of death in the Registration Area of the United States for 1916 with the number of deaths caused by each were as follows: Heart dis eases, tuberculosis. Pneumonia. Bright's dis ease, and cancer, Of these five causes of death there are two, pneumonia and tuberculosis in which the sanitation of living and work places, the isolation of the infected individual, and in the case of pneumonia, the use of sera and vaccines. Do play an important part. Even with tuberculosis and pneumonia, however, education in personal hygiene fills a large place in the modern preventive campaign. Heart disease and Bright's disease may, of course, often be the end results of bacterial infection; but the immediate problem of their con trol is not to be sought along conventional sanitary and bacteriological lines. In the past they have indeed been considered as beyond the range of control measures of any kind. With these diseases, too, it seems clear, however, that education in personal hygiene ofi'ers large possi bilities of effective results. If the weakness of the heart or arteries be known in time, the adoption of proper rules for daily living can at least postpone the fatal result, if it cannot successfully effect organic cure.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.