Public health and insurance: American addresses

by Sir Arthur Newsholme

The Inter-relation of Various Social Efforts [144-156]

The Possibilities of Good Work under Present Economic Conditions.
The Importance of Social Work to the Physician.
The Constant Need for a Causal Outlook.
Poverty and Disease.
Causes of Intemperance.
The Causation and Prevention of Venereal Diseases.
Lop-sided Views as to Ignorance in Causation of Disease.

LECTURE VII

The Obstacles to and Ideals of Health Progress [157-182]

Degree of Progress Realized.
Obstacle of Urban Life.
Obstacle of Industrialism.
Obstacle of Poverty.
The Influence of the Malthusian Hypothesis.
Obstacle of Ignorance.
Obstacle of Defects of Character.
Ideals.
Communal Action.
Spread of Altruism.
Supreme Importance of Mother and Child.

LECTURE VIII

Some Aspects of Poverty [183-190]

Disease a Chief Cause of Poverty.
Diminution of Poverty apart from Increased Family Income.
Poverty a Complex.
Action Needed against Each Constituent Element of Poverty.

LECTURE IX

The Causation of Tuberculosis and the
Measures for its Control in England [191-239]