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foodstuffs sold in the open market, the public must depend 

 for a large measure of its protection against loss in efficiency 

 and shortened lives due to unfit substances in the foods 

 purchased. As a bacteriologist the sanitary expert must be 

 able to recognize and identify any disease germs present 

 in the water, milk, and food supply of a community. 



To qualify as an expert in any one science usually requires 

 college and university training. But so simple are the funda- 

 mentals of sanitation that the sciences of the high school give 

 a good understanding of the conditions for personal and 

 community health, and how these may be conserved. The 

 relationships and applications of hygiene and sanitation are 

 as wide and as far reaching as are human activities and inter- 

 ests. No one in a family circle can suffer sickness or disease 

 without in some measure affecting the interests of all its 

 members. The health and well-being of every individual 

 is a matter of concern for the community and the State. 



Directly or indirectly those now in the public schools need 

 to be concerned with the safe-guarding of the health of those 

 who work in factory, shop, mill, store, and office. In later 

 years nearly every boy and girl now in school, either as em- 

 ployers of labor or as employees, will have a personal as 

 well as an industrial and social interest in the sanitary condi- 

 tions under which the indoors work of the world is being 

 carried on. Even in school days the health of the parents, 

 whose earnings make possible the maintenance of homes and 

 the welfare of the family, are matters of concern to all boys 

 and girls. 



In towns having a good supply of city water, with modern 

 plumbing conditions, there is absolutely no excuse for any 

 lack in shops, mills, factories, and public schools of sanitary 

 drinking fountains, and of well-kept toilet rooms. To keep 

 the floors, walls, and fixtures of toilet rooms neat and clean 

 requires co-operation with the care-takers of the buildings. 



