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Page 52 - Association, who have so clearly and ably expressed the aims of health education as follows : "1. To instruct children and youth so that they may conserve and improve their own health. "2. To establish in them the habits and principles of living which, throughout their school life and in later years, will assure that abundant vigor and vitality which provide the basis for the greatest happiness and service in personal, family and community life.
Page 52 - The aims of health education may briefly be stated as follows: 1. To instruct children and youth so that they may conserve and improve their own health. 2. To establish in them the habits and principles of living which throughout their school life and in later years will assure that abundant vigor and vitality which provide the basis for the greatest possible happiness and service in personal, family and community life.
Page 52 - To influence parents and other adults, through the health education program for children, to better habits and attitudes, so that the school may become an effective agency for the promotion of the social aspects of health education in the family and community as well as in the school itself.
Page 21 - ... appointments for pupils at hospitals, dispensaries and clinics. Unfortunately the rapid growth in the population of the schools without a requisite increase in the medical and nursing staff makes the complete fulfillment of this program impossible. There are in the City of New York at the present time, in public and parochial schools, under medical supervision of the Department of Health through its Bureau of Child Hygiene over a million and a quarter pupils. Since January 1, 1918, 185 elementary...
Page 5 - Mayor of the City of New York: SIR — I have the honor to transmit herewith the Annual Report of the Department of Health of The City of New York, for the year ending December 31, 1925.
Page 6 - I have the honor to transmit herewith the annual report of the Department of Mental Hygiene for the year beginning July 1, 1929, and ending June 30, 1930.
Page 11 - A study of the assets and deficiencies of the Department of Health was made with the cooperation of the New York Academy of Medicine, the New York Tuberculosis and Health Association and the American Public Health Association, as well as other citizens having expert knowledge of public health work. This was of great value in helping me prepare a budget based on our actual needs. There were many other health activities in which we co-operated during the year. Co-operation with the Milbank Demonstration:...
Page 80 - The conferences were sponsored by the Committee on Public Health Relations of the New York Academy of Medicine, with the assistance of the Josiah Macy, Jr.
Page 172 - Calculi of the urinary passages Diseases of the bladder . . . Diseases of the urethra, urinary abscess, etc Diseases of the prostate...
Page 54 - Street, maintained jointly by the Department of Health and the Department of Public Welfare. The...