CONTENTS. 



LECTURE I. 



Preventible Disease The Injury they Inflict The Germ Theory Plague 

 among Silkworms Pasteur's Views confirmed Different kinds of 

 Germs Author's Discovery of Germs in 1865 Cotton Wool as an 

 Air Filter Distinctive Characters of Infectious Diseases Increased 

 Bodily Temperature and Waste Density of Population and Death 

 Rate Law of Density to Death Rate Overcrowding in Glasgow 

 Carriers of Infection Growth of Epidemics Small-pox and Vaccina- 

 tion Prevention of Epidemics Compulsory Registration Diffusion 

 of Sanitary Knowledge. 



LECTURE II. 



Dust and Disease Steel, Copper, and Lead Dust Mineral Dust and 

 Mortality The Tobacco Workers, Weavers and Joiners Millers, 

 Bakers, and Coal Miners Immunity, from Consumption, of Coal 

 Miners Wool- Sorters' Disease Healthiness of Certain Occupations 

 Mortality and Sedentary Employments with Defective Ventilation 

 Effects of Arsenical Dust Arsenical Poisoning in the Arts 

 Germany and Poisonous Products Dust and Consumption Number 

 of Workmen Affected by their Occupations Impoverishment, 

 Pauperism, and Hereditary Disease Increase of Consumption 

 Means of Prevention Ventilation in Manufacturing Workshops 

 Workmen and their Ameliorations Need of Additional Legislation 

 Attitude of Workmen to Questions of Public Health State Educa- 

 tion Historical Retrospect Mortality of Industrial Workmen and 

 General Population compared Pecuniary Losses to the State 

 through Disease and Premature Death of Workmen Duty of the 

 Legislature. 



