Principles of Public Health / A Simple Text Book on Hygiene, Presenting the Principles Fundamental to the Conservation of Individual and Community Health

This textbook presents practical hygiene and public-health principles for school readers, combining guidance on personal care—clothing, food handling, milk and meat safety, cleanliness, teeth, skin, eyes, rest, and poisons—with explanations of germ theory and routes of infection. It surveys domestic and environmental vectors such as flies, water, air, and insects, describes prevention and control measures for specific illnesses including diphtheria, typhoid, hookworm, dysentery, scarlet fever, measles, whooping cough, smallpox, and tuberculosis, and offers an appendix of anatomy plus pedagogical suggestions for teachers.