Tropical hygiene : a text for the use of teachers / A.H. Kirby.

  • Kirby, A. H.
Date:
1910
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    •will be the best plan, after Part I. has been revised carefully, to devote a few lessons to giving a simple description of the way in which the blood and the lymph circulate in the body and of the organs whose special duty is to deal with these, as well as of those which have to make use of the food that is taken into the system. Such work is not at present within the scope of this book, which deals wjth the subject of the rules of health alone, so that the presentation of such necessary facts of physiology is left to be the outcome of the teacher’s own knowledge. PART I.—THE RULES OF HEALTH. A.—The House and its Surroundings. 5. Keeping the house tn proper repair.—For a person to be healthy, the house in which he lives must be kept in a reasonable state of repair. If it has been neglected, so that the rain soaks in through parts of the roof or walls, or if the shutters and doors have been allowed to get into such a state that they can no longer serve as a proper protection against the weather, it is very probable that he will suffer from colds and chills. It is therefore his duty to look over his house often, in order that he may find out where repairs are needed, before the state of it becomes so bad as to cause him to have ill health. If he makes it a regular duty to examine his house in this way every week or fortnight, both in the rainy season and out of it, he will have to spend less on repairs, for he will have his attention