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December, 1911 



HEALTH NUMBER 



American Nature Study Society — Program Washington Meeting 247 



Tuberculosis Among School Children Geo. J. Xclhach 243 



Hygiene as a Sixth Grade Subject C. F. Phipps 254 



Children's Pets as Disease Carriers Edith Prindeville 260 



Seven Years of Child Labor Reform Owen R. Lovejoy 264 



A Better Crop of Boys and Girls Wm. A. McKeever 266 



Heuristic Method in Hygieno John Dearness 269 



Children and Health C. A. Stebbins 272 



The Necessity of Water for Flies W. C. Coker 277 



Editorial • 278 



News and Notes 279 



Book Reviews • 



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