Lectures on Public Hygiene and Medical Police

Lectures on Hygiene

years. There is a wonderful lot of information contained in these pages. The book begins with a chapter on air and ventilation; the one on water-supply is also admirable and full of practical points derived from Indian experience. We learn,that Norton's tube wells were employed with excellent results in the Katihar Plague. Camp and in the Rangpur District. The remarks on filters are sound and t...

Medical police and the history of public health.

In 1942, Henry Sigerist questioned the idea that "the German way in public health was to enforce health through the police while the English way consisted in acting through education and persuasion".2 Contrasts of this kind have, however, remained commonplace throughout the twentieth century.3 In the 1950s, George Rosen sought to reframe the history of public health in order to understand how i...

The De Lamar Lectures. 1925-26. The Johns Hopkins University of Hygiene and Public Health

The; purpose of these lectures is stated in the foreword. They are "a series of lectures on personal and public hygiene arranged each session by the School of Hygiene and Public Health of the Johns Hopkins University. The object of these lectures is to bring before the public the general facts and points of view of modern hygiene, with the hope that in this way the School may serve as a centre ...

A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health

A Treatise on Hygiene and Public Health

are of little use to the Indian student. A new chapter has been added on animal parasites, one on school hygiene and two on maternity and child welfare. A most important advantage of the book is that it does not attempt to teach too much. The Indian student usually suffers from the well meant efforts of his teachers to give him a complete course of instruction in each subject of the curriculum,...