The Practitioner's Library of Medicine and Surgery. Volume XII. Preventive Medicine and Hygiene. 1937
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a campaign to deal with this problem and emphasizes the part played by the practitioner in this scheme; the worker in India will get many valuable hints from this chapter. Early chapters discuss the hygiene of nutrition, of clothes, of exercise and rest, and of air and sunshine, sex hygiene, maternity and child hygiene, and personal mental hygiene. Sewage disposal and the protection of water supplies are naturally given due attention, and we notice that cholera is given as the best example of a water-borne disease, the classical Hamburg and Broad Street pump outbreaks being described in some detail. Altogether this will form a very valuable book of reference for the practitioner when he is asked for his assistance in some social service scheme in his town or village, and it will also give him hints on personal conduct that he will find invaluable to himself as well
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