Author: Provincial Board of Health of Ontario

Publisher:

Published: 2016-06-13

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781332586943

Excerpt from Manual of Hygiene for Schools and Colleges The want has long been felt of a work on Hygiene, which would occupy an intermediate place between the elementary text-books for the use of children, and the advanced treatises for practitioners of medicine, sanitary engineers, and other persons intending to become experts in Sanitary Science. This book is designed to meet, in some degree, that want. Whilst many of the calculations, and much of the matter, contained in it are expressed in terms not suited to a child, it is, on the other hand, free, as far as may be, from technical expressions not readily understood by the ordinary reader. Whilst it is primarily intended for teachers, and for pupils in attendance at the Normal and other Schools of the higher grade it is hoped that it may be read with interest and profit by other persons; and that a perusal of it, coupled with an earnest desire to put in practice any good suggestions that may be offered, will be productive of increased health and vigor, and a lessened death-rate. It is intended to present such a knowledge of sanitary matters as every intelligent citizen should possess. It will be found that the book is mainly devoted to considerations of those matters of Hygiene in regard to which a controlling or modifying influence may be exercised by those for whom it is intended. Such points in Physiology and Anatomy are taken up as will aid in the hygienic considerations referred to: it has been felt that people will be more likely to put in practice suggestions in Hygiene, for which they understand the physiological reasons, than they will mere dogmatic directions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.