CONTENTS

[PART I. HEALTH RIGHTS]
CHAPTER PAGE
I.[Health a Civic Obligation]3
II.[Seven Health Motives and Seven Catchwords]11
III.[What Health Rights are not enforced in your Community?]23
IV.[The Best Index to Community Health is the Physical Welfare of School Children]33
[PART II. READING THE INDEX TO HEALTH RIGHTS]
V.[Mouth Breathing]45
VI.[Catching Diseases, Colds, Diseased Glands]57
VII.[Eye Strain]72
VIII.[Ear Trouble, Malnutrition, Deformities]83
IX.[Dental Sanitation]89
X.[Abnormally Bright Children]104
XI.[Nervousness of Teacher and Pupil]107
XII.[Health Value of "Unbossed" Play and Physical Training]115
XIII.[Vitality Tests and Vital Statistics]124
XIV.[Is your School Manufacturing Physical Defects?]139
XV.[The Teacher's Health]152
[PART III. COÖPERATION IN MEETING HEALTH OBLIGATIONS]
XVI.[European Remedies: Doing Things at School]159
XVII.[American Remedies: Getting Things Done]166
XVIII.[Coöperation with Dispensaries and Child-Saving Agencies]174
XIX.[School Surgery and Relief Objectionable, if Avoidable]184
XX.[Physical Examination for Working Papers]190
XXI.[Periodical Physical Examination after School Age]201
XXII.[Habits of Health promote Industrial Efficiency]208
XXIII.[Industrial Hygiene]218
XXIV.[The Last Days of Tuberculosis]229
XXV.[The Fight for Clean Milk]252
XXVI.[Preventive "Humanized" Medicine: Physician and Teacher]268
[PART IV. OFFICIAL MACHINERY FOR ENFORCING HEALTH RIGHTS]
XXVII.[Departments of School Hygiene]283
XXVIII.[Present Organization of School Hygiene in New York City]296
XXIX.[Official Machinery for enforcing Health Rights]302
XXX.[School and Health Reports]310
XXXI.[The Press]322
[PART V. ALLIANCE OF HYGIENE, PATRIOTISM, AND RELIGION]
XXXII.[Do-Nothing Ailments]329
XXXIII.[Heredity Bugaboos and Heredity Truths]335
XXXIV.[Ineffective and Effective Ways of Combating Alcoholism]343
XXXV.[Is it Practicable in presenting to Children the Evils of Alcoholism to tell the Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth?]357
XXXVI.[Fighting Tobacco Evils]363
XXXVII.[The Patent-Medicine Evil]369
XXXVIII.[Health Advertisements that Promote Health]378
XXXIX.[Is Class Instruction in Sex Hygiene Practicable?]384
XL.[The Element of Truth in Quackery; Hygiene of the Mind]391
XLI.["A Natural Law is as Sacred as a Moral Principle"]398
[INDEX]405

CIVICS AND HEALTH