HEALTH 101 



soil, milk and water pollution; too much visiting 

 in case of contagious diseases; patent medicines, 

 advertising quacks and intemperance; feeding of 

 offal to animals at Ipcal slaughterhouses and 

 general unsanitary conditions of those houses not 

 under federal or other rigid sanitary control; in 

 some regions unwholesome and poorly prepared 

 and monotonous diet; lack of recreation; too 

 long hours of work. 



Added to these and other conditions, are im- 

 portant regional questions, such as the extensive 

 spread of the hook-worm disease in the Gulf- 

 Atlantic states; the prevalence of typhoid fever 

 and malaria; and other difficulties due to neglect 

 in the localities. 



In general, the rural population is less safe- 

 guarded by boards of health than is the urban 

 population. The physicians are farther apart 

 and are called in later in case of sickness, and in 

 some districts medical attendance is relatively 

 more expensive. The necessity for disease pre- 

 vention is therefore self-evident, and it becomes 

 even more emphatic when we recall that infec- 

 tion may be spread from farms to cities in the 

 streams and also in the milk, meat, and other 



