INDEX

Abbott, J., 2

Abbott, S. W., 2

Alcoholic drinks, 123, 149, 187

Anaesthetics, 77

Ante-natal work, 261

Bacteriological diagnosis, 85

Banks, N. P., 2

Biggs, H., 77

Bowditch, 2

Budd, Wm., 15

Burns, John, 44

Burton, R., 71

Care Committees, 237

Causation, 147

Causation, specific, 20

Cerebro-spinal fever, 23, 76, 126

Chadwick, 2, 3, 11, 12, 25, 52, 54

Chalmers, 70

Chapman, 221, 237

Character and health, 173

Childbearing, care of, 137, 254

Child mortality, causes of, 248

Child welfare work, 240

Cholera, 12

Colonies for consumptives, 235

Consumption, see Tuberculosis.

Contacts in tuberculosis, 212

Creches, 263

Decadence, 121

Democracy and public health, 47

Dental assistance, 262

Destitution (see also Poor Law), 31, 65, 87

Deterrence, principle of, 29

Diarrhœal diseases, 20, 241

Dirt and disease, 11

Dispensaries for tuberculosis, 216

” general, 218

Domiciliary treatment, 35

Education authorities and public health, 56, 58, 86

Educational propaganda, 130, 168

” work of sanatoria, 233

Enteric fever, see Typhoid.

Epidemiology, present limitations of, 22, 81

Eugenics and public health, 44

Expectation of life, 20, 74, 192

Factory hygiene and legislation, 8, 26

Farr, Wm., 2, 25

Fulton, J. S., 24

Gerhard, 15

Goodnow, 60, 63

Grants in aid, 56, 135, 265

Historical development of public health, 42

Holmes, O. Wendell, 16

Hospitals, see Institutional treatment.

” as housing auxiliaries, 38, 77, 79, 98

” and private practice, 146

Housing, 38, 79

” and tuberculosis, 203

Huddersfield, 246

Ideals of public work, 4

Ignorance and sickness, 168

Immunity to tuberculosis, 196

Industrial colonies, 235

Industry and public health, 50, 161

Infant consultations, 243

Infant mortality, 144, 250

Infant mortality and poverty, 153, 185

Infants, care of, 30

Influenza, 23, 76, 127

Inspectors of factories, 51

Institutional treatment, 37, 79, 98

Insurance and public health, 33, 59, 66, 88, 92, 95, 103

Intemperance, 149

Jefferson, President, 6

Jenner, Wm., 15

Kay, 2, 11

Koch, Robert, 192

” and segregation in tuberculosis, 201

Laissez faire policy, 6

Lay workers, utilisation of, 3

Loans for public health work, 14

Local Government Board, 53, 58, 77

Lowe, Robert, 28

Mackenzie, L., 57

Maclean, D., 31

Malaria, 147

Malthus, 6, 162

Malthusian hypothesis, 164

Massachusetts, 2, 4

Maternity benefit, 34, 95, 111, 134

Measles, 20, 126

Measurement of results in life saving, 19

Medical benefit, 34, 106, 110

Medical practice and public health, 27, 83

Medical officers of health, 63

Midwives Act, 255

Midwifery nursing, 260

Milk depots, 243

Mill, James, 6

Ministry of Health, 49

Mother and child, 132, 180

Murchison, Chas., 15, 17

National Health Insurance Act, 33, 59, 88, 104

National medical service, 32, 36

New England, 1

Notification of tuberculosis, 206

” of births, 245

Nursing, training of, 122

” public health work of, 126

Oastler, 177

Overcrowding, 7, 199

Over-population, 166

Owen, 177

Panel doctors, 215

Pasteur, 21

Percival, 177

Pettenkofer, Von, 13

Philanthropy and public health, 9, 37

Physical defects, 81

Pneumonia, 76

Poliomyelitis, 23, 76

Political pull, 102, 175

Poor law and public health, 27, 29, 31, 46, 49

Population problem, 163

Poverty, causes of, 31, 182

” control of, 46, 114

” tests, 139

” and sickness, 148, 162, 167, 184, 189

Preventive medicine, 99

Progress of public health, 1

Public health nurses, 128, 154

Racial immunity, 196

Red Cross workers, 127, 132, 143

Registrar-General’s returns, 18, 25

Relief v. prevention, 109, 190

Relief v. prevention, 48

Research, 24, 35

Resistance v. infection, 195

Respiratory diseases, 23, 125

Rumsey, 54

Rural conditions, 161

Sanatorium benefit, 34, 94, 111, 129, 214, 222

Sanatorium treatment, 228

Sanitation and infant mortality, 242

Scarlet fever, 20

Schools for mothers, 244

School medical inspection, 30, 57, 252

Scope of public health work, 44

Sedgwick, 16

Segregation of feeble-minded, 44

” in tuberculosis, 200

Sex teaching, 151

Shaftesbury, 177

Shattuck, L., 2, 3

Shop hygiene, 9

Sickness and pauperism, 67, 68

Sickness insurance, 10, 32, 65, 67, 87, 116

Sickness registration, 26

Simon, Jno., 2, 4, 5, 9, 12, 13, 22, 25, 28, 55

Smallpox, 21

Smith, Adam, 6

Smith, Southwood, 2, 9, 11, 12

Smith, Theobald, 2

Snow, Jno., 13

Socialization of medicine, 82, 102, 115

State treatment of disease, 112, 137

Statistical studies, influence of, 252

Still-births, 137

Syphilis, 137

Sykes, J. F. J., 244

Town living, influence on health, 43

Tuberculosis, 20, 23, 34, 76, 78, 129, 192

Tuberculosis and hospital treatment, 198

” and overcrowding, 199

” and housing, 203

” notification of, 206

Typhoid fever, 15

Typhus fever, 17, 20

Unqualified practice, 31

Urbanization, 7, 159

Venereal diseases, 30, 85, 131, 150

Victoria, Queen, 10

Vital statistics, importance of, 24

Voluntary agencies, 141

Walcott, 2

War, 81, 120, 158, 179

Water supplies and health, 16

Wells, 159

Whooping cough, 20

Women, work of, 122

” position of, 184