Hygiene: a manual of personal and public health (New Edition)

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Newsholme, Arthur, Sir, 1857-1943

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource : multiple file formats

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg,

Summary:

"Hygiene: a manual of personal and public health" by Arthur Newsholme is a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. The work serves as a comprehensive guide to hygiene principles, focusing on the importance of personal and public health practices. It explores the relationships between nutrition, environmental conditions, and health, highlighting preventive measures against diseases to improve health standards. The opening of the book sets the foundation for understanding hygiene by tracing its historical significance and evolution. It draws connections between classical mythology's figures representing health and early health practices detailed in the Mosaic law. Newsholme discusses the historical prevalence of infectious diseases and poor health conditions among populations due to ignorance of hygiene principles, while emphasizing the significant progress made over the last century in disease prevention and health improvement. As he introduces the key components of hygiene-food, water, and air-Newsholme prepares the reader for a detailed exploration of hygienic practices essential for individual and community health. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

Contents:

Introductory

Food

The varieties of food

Diseases due to food

Diet

The preparation and preservation of food

Condiments and beverages

Fermented drinks

Water

The storage and delivery of water

Impurities of water

Origin and effects of the impurities of water

The purification of water

Composition and properties of air

Suspended impurities of air

Gaseous and other impurities of air

Trade nuisances

The examination of air

The purification of air

General principles of ventilation

Problems as to ventilation

Methods of ventilation

Ventilation by the introduction of warmed air

The warming of houses

House drainage

Cesspools and main sewers

Problems as to flow in sewers

The disposal of sewage

Conservancy methods

Position of the house

The materials used in the construction of a house

Construction of the house

The soil

Climate and weather

Meteorological observations

Personal hygiene

Personal hygiene: exercise

Personal hygiene: rest and sleep

Personal hygiene: cleanliness

Clothing

Parasites

The rôle of insects in spreading disease

Infective diseases

Acute infective diseases

Tuberculosis

Notification and isolation

Disinfection

Vital statistics.

Credits:

Produced by MWS, Bryan Ness, Les Galloway and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Notes:

Reading ease score: 60.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read.

Release date is 2019-01-01