CHAPTER L 



SANITATION 



Importance. Sanitation is a study of the conditions 

 which make for the health of a community. The 

 greatest prosperity can not come to any community 

 until every precaution is taken to promote and to 

 establish public health. It is much more important 

 that we should prevent diseases than it is that we 

 should cure them. Many times as much money is now 

 spent in attempting to cure diseases than there is in 

 preventing their spread. It is only recently that the 

 public has begun to realize the advantages in pre- 

 vention and methods of control. There is still an 

 annual loss from infectious diseases of millions of 

 dollars, and the death of hundreds of thousands of 

 persons in our communities, .conditions which produce 

 untold suffering and sorrow. 



Preventable diseases. All infectious or contagious 

 diseases are preventable diseases. By that we mean 

 that their spread can be prevented. The preventive 

 methods used depend upon the way in which the germs 

 can be destroyed and the way in which they are carried. 



Destruction of germs. There are many methods of 

 destroying germs and still more methods of preventing 



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