SYLLABUS OF CIVIC PROBLEMS. 15 



Fly Campaign. 



1. Get all the information you can about the habits of the fly ; rapidity and places 



of breeding ; relation to special diseases. 



2. Make a set of posters — -each pupil one — that will illustrate the habits and the 



dangers of the fly. 



3. Place them in the shop windows. 



(Note. — If j-ou want them to stay, do not put them where food is 

 sold.) 



4. Write articles attractive in style, jingle or prose, for the local papers. 



5. Ask for a clean-up day before the fly season begins. 



Sanitary Survey. 



1. Make a survey of all or a part of the city or community in which you live. 



(Teacher assign certain sections of the city to be visited by committee 

 of children.) 



2. Note the street and number where unsanitary conditions exist and state the nature 



of the case. 



3. Tabulate results thus : 



Street 



Main 



No. Unsanitary Condition t Degree 



25 Garbage pile Very bud 



4. Make a pin map of the city or community, showing combined results of surveys. 



5. Note especially whether there are unsanitary conditions about your home or your 



school. If so, do your share in removing them. 



6. Indicate which cases you think should be reported to the Health Board or the 



Civic League. 



(Note. — Children's judgment is not always sound and it is best to 

 have the opinion of adults to confirm it.) 



References. 

 Pupils' Readings. 



Allen, W. H. "Civics and Health." 



Haskius, F. American (iovernment. The Public Health. 195 ff. 



Coleman, Walter. A Handbook of the People. 133 ff. 



Heroes of Peace. American Peace League. 



Current Literature, 52 : 183 — "The Last of the Mosquito." 



Review of Reviews, 43 : 344-4G — Huber, J. B. "Fighting American Typhoid." 



National Geographic Magazine, 21 : 371-83 — Cobb, N. A. "The House Fly." 



Survey, 27 : 1952 — "Health Day by Proclamation." 



Popular Science Monthly, SG : 319-24 — -Winslow, C. E. A. "Community Defense 

 of National Vitality." 



Conference of Charities and Corrections for 1913 : 109-71 — Kingsbury, J. A. "Co- 

 ordination of Official and Private Activity in Public Health Work." 



Technical World — Millard, B. "Detectives to Trail Disease." 



Survey, 32 : 77 — Manheimer, W. A. "Mikveh Baths of New York City." 



Review of Reviews. 49 : 301 — ^Dupuy, W. A. "Uncle Sam Fighting the Diseases 

 of the World." 



