ORGANIZATION FOR PROTECTING HEALTH 405 



QUESTIONS 



1. What kinds of clinics are free to the public in your community ? 



2. How many free hospital beds are there in your community? 



3. What is the Red Cross doing to promote public health ? 



4. What are the advantages of using the old-fashioned home reme- 

 dies instead of modern drugs ? What are the disadvantages ? 



5. How do synthetic drugs differ from patent medicines ? 



6. What departments of the city administration or of the state gov- 

 ernment carry on work related to health ? 



7. What supervision has the health department of your city or state 

 over the water service ? 



8. Should school nurses be under the direction of the board of health 

 or under the direction of the board of education ? Why ? 



9. What changes in your conduct or habits have been produced by 

 the services of school-health inspection ? by anything you have been 

 taught about health ? by anything that was done by the physician ? 



10. Why is it necessary to have a federal health service in addition to 

 what the different states are doing ? 



11. How do the newspapers in your community promote pubhc 

 health ? 



12. Compare papers and magazines that carry patent-medicine adver- 

 tisements with some that do not. What other differences do you find? 



REFERENCE READINGS 



Hough and Sedg\vick. The Human Mechanism, chap, xxxvi, Public 



Protection of Pubhc Health; chap. xxx\'ii, International Health 



Relations. 

 Public Health Reprint 680, Relation of State Health Departments to 



Federal and Volunteer Health Agencies. 

 Public Health Bulletin 54, Organization. Powers, and Duties of Health 



Authorities; Analysis of Laws and Regulations. 

 Pubhc Health Reprint 723, Some Child Hygiene Activities of the United 



States Pubhc Health Service. 

 Pubhc Health Reprint 850, The National Health Council as an Aid to 



Organized Health Agencies. 



