FOOTNOTES:
[6] Report on National Vitality, p. 55.
[7] Bulletin No. 54.
CHAPTER IV
Interchangeableness of these two forms of progressive effort. First one, then the other ahead.
Preventive medicine is the watchword of the hour, and enlistment in the cause can come only through education....
He who understands the dangers is thrice armed, and is trained and entitled to enlist in the home guard to protect the health of his household and neighbors.
Dr. M. H. Rosenau, Harvard Medical School.
The next generation of parents is being made strong or weak in home and school today by an environment furnished by parents and teachers. These latter cannot be too well instructed in physiology, hygiene, and biology.
Prof. John Tyler, The Responsibility of the Medical
Profession for Public Education in Hygiene.
The new view is a social view, which seeks in all movements, whether of research or of remedial action, for the common welfare.
Edward Devine, Social Forces.
Democracy means that the best of all life is for all, and that if there are many incapable of entering into it, then they must be helped to become capable.
Ralph Barton Perry, The Moral Economy.
If the child is not only in theory but in practice recognized as the main interest in society, the family and society will more and more assist the mother in his nurture.
W. I. Thomas, Women and Their Occupations.
Health administration cannot rise far above the hygienic standards of those who provide the means for administering sanitary law. The tax-paying public must believe in the economy, utility, and necessity of efficient health administration.
Wm. H. Allen, Civics and Health.
The connection between poverty and ill health is so direct, so immediate, and so important that the moment any individual or society turns its attention to the causes of poverty, that moment it finds itself in the thick of the public health movement.
Homer Folks, Journal Public Hygiene, November, 1909.