The Health Officer, Volum 1

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1936

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Side 436 - How to live? — that is the essential question for us. Not how to live in the mere material sense only, but in the widest sense. The general problem which comprehends every special problem is — the right ruling of conduct in all directions under all circumstances. In what way to treat the body; in what way to treat the mind; in what way to manage our affairs; in what way to bring up a family; in what way to behave as a citizen; in what way to utilize all those sources of happiness which nature...
Side 449 - Public health has been defined as the art and science of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical and mental efficiency through organized community effort.
Side 436 - To prepare us for complete living is the function which education has to discharge; and the only rational mode of judging of an educational course, is to judge in what degree it discharges such function.
Side 211 - ... only the story of princes, dynasties, sieges, and battles. Of the people themselves — the great social body, with life, growth, forces, elements, and laws of its own — he told us nothing. Now, statistical inquiry leads him into...
Side 345 - Information, a magazine published by the Division of Venereal Diseases of the United States Public Health Service.
Side 36 - Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wyoming.
Side 436 - ... influence — what will be most imposing. As throughout life not what we are, but what we shall be thought, is the question; so in education, the question is, not the intrinsic value of knowledge, so much as its extrinsic effects on others.
Side 436 - They may be naturally arranged into: 1. Those activities which directly minister to self-preservation; 2. Those activities which, by securing the necessaries of life, indirectly minister to self-preservation; 3. Those activities which have for their end the rearing and discipline of offspring; 4. Those activities which are involved in the maintenance of proper social and political relations; 5. Those miscellaneous activities which make up the leisure part of life, devoted to the gratification of...
Side 437 - approximately 4.5 percent of the persons born in the State of New York may, under existing conditions, be expected to succumb to mental disease of one form or another, and become patients in hospitals for mental disease." This may be further interpreted to mean that "one person out of 22 becomes a patient in a hospital for mental disease during the lifetime of a generation.
Side 440 - ... elections, courts, and legislatures are the clumsiest of recording instruments. They can measure only undigested lumps of opinion; they cannot dissect and analyze and so come at the truth. But what is necessary, I take it, is not the abolition of democracy or the installation of new political machinery. We need humility, especially among the so-called leaders of opinion. We need tolerance — and not so much that tolerance which is a Christian virtue as that which arises from a scientific recognition...

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