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Title: Physiology, hygiene and sanitation, an elementary textbook of physiology, with special attention given to hygiene and sanitation
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Heizer, W. L. (W. Lucien), b. 1880
Subjects: Physiology Hygiene Sanitation
Publisher: Louisville, Ky., C.T. Dearing Printing Co., Incorporated
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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—Boy scouts in a clean-up campaign forcommunity sanitation. posed to the drainage, flies, rats and dangers of a neigh-bors house and premises which are ill-kept and breedingplaces for disease. It is not right for any person wilfully to permit the so-called catching or communicable diseases to spread, andhealth laws with penalties are necessary to compel indif-ferent or ignorant people to protect their own and otherpeoples health and lives. 322 PHYSIOLOGY, HYGIENE AND SANITATION Health Boards. In larger cities, there is usually a com-mittee of citizens whose duty it is to enforce the healthlaws. They usually operate through a health officer, whoseduty it is to see that health laws relating to them are en-forced ; that sanitary inspections are made of schools, homesand public buildings, dairies, water supplies, food factor-ies and markets. There, also, is usually a county board of health and acounty health officer, whose duty is to enforce the healthlaws and rules in an entire county.
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Fig-. 153.—College girls in a health parade for aclean-up campaign, conducted by the visiting nurseof a County Health and Welfare League. The State Board of Health is one of the most importantdepartments of the State, for through it, health laws forthe entire state are enforced. It is usually able to makefree examinations of water, body wastes and dischargesfrom sick people; to help locate diseases and tell of theirnature and danger; to make sanitary inspections; to keep SANITATION 323 records of births and deaths and direct the health work ofthe counties. It is the duty of every good citizen to uphold the effortsof health officials and to insist upon the passage of lawswith ample funds for their operation. Volunteer Organizations. Many cities and countiesorganize Anti-Tuberculosis Societies, City and CountyHealth and Welfare Leagues for the purpose of nursingthe sick and helping them to prevent sickness. Many ofthem employ one or more visiting nurses, who give nursingcare to those

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