Sanitation for public health nurses : (the fundamentals of public health) / by Hibbert Winslow Hill.

  • Hill, Hibbert Winslow, 1871-1947.
Date:
1919
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Credit: Sanitation for public health nurses : (the fundamentals of public health) / by Hibbert Winslow Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SANITATION FOR PUBLIC HEALTH NURSES CHAPTER I HYGIENE, SANITATION, PUBLIC HEALTH. DEFINITIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS Public Health deals with all that mankind may do to advance the physical welfare of any of mankind. It is thus much more than, while it includes, that which the individual may do to advance his own personal physical welfare. Yet individual health and racial health are obviously intimately related. If every individual were in health, the race would necessarily be so also. Unfortunately, many individuals, and especially children, can do little or nothing for themselves. Public Health is, therefore, altruistic in principle as regards the individual, while from the racial standpoint it is a pure business proposition, for that which advances the physical welfare of any individual is just so much a pure gain to the race; every disease, defect or disability of any individual is just so much a detriment to the race. Hygiene is that part of Public Health which deals with the proper operation of the living body at any age or stage and under all the various and changing circumstances, good and bad, which may surround it. It is for the body exactly what the practical art of the chauffeur, applied in every sort of weather, on every sort of road, in city and in country, is for the automobile. Its theoretical goal is the perfect adaptation