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CHAPTER III. 



CONSERVATION OF THE HEALTH OF THE PEOPLE. 

 Section 1. Health Agencies. 



1. The city's administration of Public Health Laws— wherein defective. 



a. The Board of Health or Health Commissioners — how appointed ; to whom 



responsible ; relation to politics ; qualifications ; term of office ; nature of 

 reports ; powers and duties ; appropriations available. 



b. The health officer — qualifications ; special traininsr ; selected from civil service 



list ; adequate salary ; duties : problems of ofiice. 



c. Food inspector — traininj? ; how appointed ; service rendered. 



d. Other officials. 



2. Measures taken by city to prevent disease. 



a. Ordinances pertaining to — screened food ; milk ; manure ; wrapped broad ; 



garbage, etc. 



b. Inspection of household premises and public places to determine whether 



sanitary. 



c. Inspection of milk and other food. 



d. Eradication of germ breeding places. 



e. Quarantine of contagious diseases. 



f. Cleanliness of public baths. 



3. Constructive measures. 



a. Laboratory analysis. 



b. Campaigns waged against flics, mosquitoes, fleas, rats, dogs, etc. 



c. Use of newspaper ; moving picture in campaign work. 



d. School health day. 



4. Co-operation of the city with the State and Nation in the enforcement of State law. 



State Board of Health. 



How it co-operates with the local health board. 



Field Work. 



(Adapted from Diedrick's Health Survey.) 

 Visit the Board of Health or the health ofiicer. Ask questions from them that you 

 can not learn by consulting charter or ordinances pertaining to the 

 following subjects : 



1. Qualifications or requirements of health officer. Are the health officers from 



a civil service list? 



2. Efforts to prevent contagious diseases spreading. 



Tuberculosis. 



Syphilis. Gonorrhea. 



Typhoid and all other reportable diseases. 



Diphtheria. 



Measles. Mumps. 



3. Food inspection. How often? 



a. Nature of meat inspection. 



b. Nature of baking inspection. 



c. Nature of grocery inspection. 



d. Nature of water inspection. 



e. Nature of dairy inspectioa. 



4. Nature and frequency of inspection of lodging houses. 



5. Nature of school inspection. 



What other child welfare work? 



6. Kind and use of city laboratory. 



7. Death rate per 1,000. High or low. 



Compare with the preceding years. 1915, 1914, 1913, 1912. 



