E. B. Hoag and L. M. Terman, Health Work in the Schools, pp. 133-191.
Group Problems
1. How can the spread of communicable diseases be prevented? Are the vital statistics of your community carefully and promptly compiled? The local health authorities,—who are they and what are their functions? What control is exercised over the agencies which spread disease? Examine the status of each in your own community. References: Milton J. Rosenau, Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, pp. 134-158; H. B. Wood, Sanitation Practically Applied, pp. 66-152; Woods Hutchinson, Preventable Diseases, pp. 83-122; Hollis Godfrey, The Health of the City, pp. 158-193; G. C. Whipple, State Sanitation, Vol. I, pp. 88-112; see also the United States Public Health Service, Reprints on the Notifiable Diseases, and the reports of the state and local Boards of Health.
2. Public water supplies. References: W. B. Munro, Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration, pp. 122-166; H. G. James, Municipal Functions, pp. 217-227; H. B. Wood, Sanitation Practically Applied, pp. 278-337; Allen Hazen, Clean Water and How to Get It, 2d ed., pp. 73-99; Charles Baskerville, Municipal Chemistry, pp. 33-89; F. E. Turneaure and H. L. Russell, Public Water Supplies, pp. 141-172.
3. Modern methods of sewage disposal. References: W. B. Munro, Principles and Methods of Municipal Administration, pp. 183-210; H. G. James, Municipal Functions, pp. 227-237; H. B. Wood, Sanitation Practically Applied, pp. 338-378; John A. Fairlie, Municipal Administration, pp. 245-255; Charles Baskerville, Municipal Chemistry, pp. 276-299; W. P. Capes and J. D. Carpenter, Municipal Housecleaning, pp. 33-89; G. W. Fuller, Sewage Disposal, pp. 175-183; Leonard Metcalf and H. P. Eddy, American Sewerage Practice, Vol. II, pp. 78-127; A. P. Folwell, Sewerage, pp. 300-332; L. P. Kinnicut, C. A. E. Winslow, and A. W. Pratt, Sewage Disposal, pp. 204-232.
4. The milk question. References: Charles Baskerville, Municipal Chemistry, pp. 90-118; H. B. Wood, Sanitation Practically Applied, pp. 233-277; Hollis Godfrey, The Health of the City, pp. 30-57; M. J. Rosenau, The Milk Question, pp. 1-22; J. S. MacNutt, The Modern Milk Problem, pp. 1-30; H. N. Parker, City Milk Supply, pp. 28-90; G. C. Whipple, Typhoid Fever, pp. 41-91.
5. Housing in its relation to public health. References: Hollis Godfrey, The Health of the City, pp. 302-345; F. C. Howe, The Modern City and Its Problems, pp. 273-288; Jacob A. Riis, How the Other Half Lives, pp. 7-27; Lawrence Veiller, Housing Reform, pp. 3-46.
Short Studies
1. The germ theory of disease. C. V. Chapin, The Sources and Modes of Infection, pp. 1-38; C. B. Morrey, The Fundamentals of Bacteriology, pp. 18-31.
2. Typhoid fever. Illinois State Board of Health, Typhoid Fever: Its Cause, Prevention, and Suppression, pp. 2-17.