CONTENTS

CHAPTER

PART I. HEALTH RIGHTS

I. HEALTH A CIVIC OBLIGATION

II. SEVEN HEALTH MOTIVES AND SEVEN CATCHWORDS

III. WHAT HEALTH RIGHTS ARE NOT ENFORCED IN

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3

II

23

33

IV. THE BEST INDEX TO COMMUNITY HEALTH IS THE

PHYSICAL WELFARE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN

PART II. READING THE INDEX TO HEALTH RIGHTS

V. MOUTH BREATHING

VI. CATCHING DISEASES, COLDS, DISEASED GLANDS

VII. EYE STRAIN

VIII. EAR TROUBLE, MALNUTRITION, DEFORMITIES

X. ABNORMALLY BRIGHT CHILDREN

XI. NERVOUSNESS OF TEACHER AND PUPIL

XII. HEALTH VALUE OF "UNBOSSED" PLAY AND PHYS-

XVI. EUROPEAN REMEDIES: DOING THINGS AT SCHOOL 159

XVII. AMERICAN REMEDIES: GETTING THINGS DONE 166

XVIII. CoÖPERATION WITH DISPENSARIES AND CHILD-

CHAPTER

XIX. SCHOOL SURGERY AND RELIEF OBJECTIONABLE,

IF AVOIDABLE.

XX. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FOR WORKING PAPERS

XXI. PERIODICAL PHYSICAL EXAMINATION AFTER

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184

190

201

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XXXIII. HEREDITY BUGABOOS AND HEREDITY TRUTHS

XXXIV. INEFFECTIVE AND EFFECTIVE WAYS OF COM-

335

BATING 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

XL. THE ELEMENT OF TRUTH IN QUACKERY; HY-

GIENE OF THE MIND.

THAT PROMOTE

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384

391

XLI. "A NATURAL LAW IS AS SACRED AS A MORAL

PRINCIPLE"

398

INDEX

405

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