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

Chapter 50: FOOTNOTES:
By Thomas Dyer Tuttle
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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.

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Bujar and Baier state that the nourishing power of bacon is represented by 2,767, while the nourishing power of butter is represented by 2,610.

[2] The cleaning out of these cemented vaults is an exceedingly unpleasant task. Some prefer to have a strong, water-tight box placed under the closet seats. When this box is nearly full, it can be removed to some place where fertilizer is needed, and there emptied, the contents being plowed into the ground. In order to make this task as simple as possible, it is a good plan to put the box on skids, and have a heavy strip in one end with a bolt and ring through it, so that a horse can be hitched to the box to draw it away. If a little dry earth or lime is put into the box each day, there will be no unpleasant odor.

[3] The teacher should demonstrate the action of acids and alkalies on a solution of litmus.

[4] At the request of many practical teachers the author has appended this brief summary of anatomy. The material is intended to be used for reference or to be assigned as lessons in connection with the chapters of the book, at the discretion of the teacher.