Preventive medicine and hygiene
- 6 ed.
- D. Appleton Century Company, Incorporated 1935
- 1481 p. tabls., ilus.
Prevention of the communicable diseases Diseases spread largely through discharges from the mouth and nose Diseases spread largely through the alvine discharges Insect borne disease Deficiency diseases Miscellaneous diseases Venereal diseases Sex hygiene Contraception, Matsner, Eric M Heredity Drug addiction Mental hygiene, Myerson, Abraham Infant and maternal mortality Infant mortality Maternal mortality, puerperal sepsis Conservation of vision and ocular hygiene, Herbert Waite, J Public health principles and practice Food General considerations Animal foods milk Meat, fish, eggs, plants, etc Air General considerations Fresh and vitiated air Pressure Motion, temperature and humidity Radiation Odors Smoke, fog and dust Bacteria and poisonous gases in the air Ventilation and heating Soil General considerations The soil and its relation to disease Water General considerations Sanitary analysis of water Microscopic examiation of water Purification of water Water and its relation to disease Sewage, Fair, Gordon M Refuse disposal, Fair, Gordon M Vital statistics, Trask, John W Statistical methods, Doering, Carl R Industrial hygiene and diseases of occupation School sanitation and child hygiene Disenfection General considerations Physical agents of disinfection Chemical agents of disinfection