Conference of State and Provincial Health Authorities Volume 37 baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 Excerpt: ...field as health officers. We are in this country just at present, in the midst of the most remarkable propaganda campaign that has ever been carried on, not only against preventive medicine, but against all medicine. It seems to me that the most important thing before the profession is to get to the profession and the public what we know about medicine, preventive medicine. I believe that a most important thing is the development of the public health exposition idea, for in such a way is the whole community given the privilege of seeing and knowing what we know and what we can do in medicine. I am quite confident that nothing that we have ever done in Louisville has accomplished for us the results that were accomplished in the short time that the exposition was put on there. Dr. Hayne. South Carolina: I move that the Conference adjourn. Motion seconded and carried. SESSION ON TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 16. The President called the Conference to order at 9:30 A. M. REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON VENEREAL DISEASES. By Dr. John S. Fulton, Member of Committee. To the written report of the Committee, I should like to add an account of an unusual outbreak of venereal disease, amounting almost to an epidemic, the details of person, place and time being accounted for with better accuracy than is often attained in the history of other acute infections. Few of us can be ignorant in these days concerning the inter-relations of social, economic and health conditions. A state of war and the profession of soldiering always determine a high incidence of venereal diseases. A labor strike and enforced idleness can do the same thing. There is in Maryland an area of total idleness under strictly rural conditions, so far as local government is concerned. The able-bodied men are practically ...