A Departure in Constructive Public Hygiene

Mental Hygiene in Public Health

surgeon s blade provided an additional 313 specimielns. From this vast quantity of material the author has reconstructed the chronology of the pathogenic process in a dynamic manner. The behavior of the parenchymal lesion, of the bronchial lesion, and of tuberculous bronchiectasis are each discussed separately. The chapter on bacteriological observations should prove valual)le to anyone who has...

Mental Hygiene in Public Health

opens a wide field for the activities of Medical Officers of Health. It arises as a result of a series of lectures given in an American University by a Public Health Officer, who has had the vision to see that mental health is as important as physical health. The new Health Service Act has laid much stress on hospital and clinical care and treatment, but the preventive side of medicine has been...

Hygiene and Public Health

A. Whitelegge and Sir George Newman, 13th Edition, revised, etc., 1917. Cassell & Co., Ltd. This admirable little book has been before the medical profession for over 27 years, and has been frequently revised. It is now in its 13th edition, and the work has largely fallen to the hands of Sir George Newman, the Emeritus Lecturer on Public Health at " Barts." The new edition has been thoroughly r...

Hygiene and Public Health

as misleading. There is a useful chapter on climates in India, a successful attempt to explain clearly the phenomena of protection and immunity. The chapter on beverages is useful, but we think it more than a liberal daily allowance to give a man 2 oz. of absolute alcohol, equivalent to 4 glasses of port, 5 glasses of sherry, etc. Half this quantity will probably do little harm, if well diluted...

Hygiene and Public Health