item: #1 of 5 id: 12036 author: Richardson, Benjamin Ward title: Hygeia, a City of Health date: None words: 9334 flesch: 61 summary: The few who are insane are placed in houses licensed as asylums, but not different in appearance to other houses in the city. Our city, which may be named _Hygeia_, has the advantage of being a new foundation, but it is so built that existing cities might be largely modelled upon it. keywords: city; day; disease; floor; health; hospital; houses; model; mortality; place; rooms; sanitary; streets; water; work cache: 12036.txt plain text: 12036.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 21353 author: Allen, William H. (WIlliam Harvey) title: Civics and Health date: None words: 117881 flesch: 61 summary: Applied to schools, this would work out as follows: TABLE XV TABLE OF RANKING-SCHOOLS ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY ============================================================= | SCHOOL | RANK IN -------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--------- | Register | Defects | Children | Children | Children | | Found | Needing | Treated | not | | | Treatment| | Treated -------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--------- A | 10 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 6 B | 20 | 22 | 22 | 24 | 12 C | 30 | 33 | 30 | 36 | 18 =======+==========+==========+==========+==========+========= Such a table fails to convey its significance unless the reader is reminded that rank 18 in children not treated is as good a record for a school that ranks 30 in register as is rank 6 for a school that ranks 10 in register. I TYPHOID A RURAL DISEASE[1] ==========================================+============+============== | Average | Average | Per Cent | Typhoid Fever | of Rural | Death Rate | Population | per 100,000 ------------------------------------------+------------+-------------- Five states in which the urban | keywords: + =; = +; = =; = ringworm; = |; air; board; breathing |; c |; city; cleansed?= |; community; country; cows |; day; days |; defects |; dental; disease |; education; examination; eye; eyes; fever |; food; free; good; health; hearing |; home |; hygiene |; illustration; interest; law; laws; life; mentality |; milk |; mouth |; national; need; new; new york; page |; palate |; parents; people; physical; physicians; public; right; school children; school hygiene; school work; school |; smallpox |; social; state; supply |; teachers; teeth |; things; time; total |; treatment |; tuberculosis; use; vision |; vitality; water |; work; year |; york; | +; | -|; | =; | cases; | children; | conditions; | consumption; | cost; | deformity; | germs; | glands; | infection; | inspections; | lots; | manure; | number; | population; | quarts; | skin; | tonsils; | week; | |; | |of cache: 21353.txt plain text: 21353.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 47308 author: Jephson, Henry (Henry Lorenzo) title: The Sanitary Evolution of London date: None words: 147428 flesch: 56 summary: In nearly all the non-central parts of London houses were increasing rapidly. A very brief experience showed that great practical benefits resulted from thus regulating these houses, and the amount of sickness and mortality in them became astonishingly small, considering the character of their inmates and the localities where they were situated; and inasmuch as the number of such houses was nearly 5,000, and the population in them about 80,000, the benefit was a really substantial one. keywords: act; authorities; authority; board; cases; central; children; city; classes; community; condition; council; death; disease; district; drainage; duty; dwellings; evils; fact; general; government; health; health act; health london; houses; inspection; law; laws; life; london; matters; metropolis; metropolitan; new; number; officer; overcrowding; owners; parish; parishes; parliament; people; persons; poor; population; power; property; public; public health; rate; report; rooms; sanitary; sanitary authority; sewers; state; streets; supply; system; tenements; time; vestries; vestry; water; work; working; years cache: 47308.txt plain text: 47308.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 53974 author: Tuttle, Thomas Dyer title: Principles of Public Health A Simple Text Book on Hygiene, Presenting the Principles Fundamental to the Conservation of Individual and Community Health date: None words: 49769 flesch: 82 summary: When milk is not properly handled, it contains many disease germs. [Sidenote: How germs get into wells] The water from most wells is clear and cool, but nevertheless may contain many disease germs. keywords: air; blood; body; cause; cells; consumption; diphtheria; disease germs; fever; fig; food; germs; illustration; meat; milk; people; person; sick; sidenote; skin; time; tuberculosis; vaccination; water; way; work cache: 53974.txt plain text: 53974.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 54454 author: Boulnois, H. Percy (Henry Percy) title: Dirty Dustbins and Sloppy Streets A Practical Treatise on the Scavenging and Cleansing of Cities and Towns date: None words: 22585 flesch: 53 summary: This amounts to the | | | lecting house refuse | following:-- | |Name of Town.| and cleansing and +--------------+-------------+ | | watering streets and | Per 1,000 of | Per mile of | | | courts. | Description of | When paved. keywords: ashpit; authority; cart; chapter; cleansing; cost; day; ditto |; dust; house; public; refuse; sanitary; snow; streets; time; town; water; watering; work; | +; | |; |van | cache: 54454.txt plain text: 54454.txt