312 IMPROVEMENT OF MAN'S ENVIRONMENT 



Problem Questions 



1. Discuss the various ways in which you can make your home a more 

 healthful place. (This would make a good project, report.) 



2. Discuss some ways in which we can control bacteria in our homes. 



3. Discuss ways and means of making our school a healthier and pleasanter 

 place in which to work and play. 



4. What are some means for the protection of industrial workers? (Look 

 up government pubhcations and make this a project report.) 



5. How is your milk supply safeguarded? Are the standards given on 

 page 302 conformed with in your community? 



6. Make a report on your local water supply and check up with what you 

 have learned. Is your supply adequately protected? 



7. Discuss sewage disposal in relation to your community. Is there pollu- 

 tion of streams there? 



8. How does your community care for its streets? Do you have adequate 

 protection ? 



9. Does your board of health function properly? What duties does it 

 perform? 



Problem and Project References 



Hunter, Laboratory Problems in Civic Biology. American Book Company. 



Allen, Civics and Health. Ginn and Company. 



Broadhiu-st, Home and Community Hygiene. J. B. Lippincott Company. 



GuUck Hygiene Series, Town and City. Ginn and Company. 



Hough and Sedgwick, The Human Mechanism, Part II. Ginn and Company. 



Hutchinson, Preventable Diseases. Houghton MiflElin Company. 



Marshall, Microbiology. P. Blakiston's Son and Company. 



Morse, The Collection and Disposal of Municipal Waste. Municipal Journal 



and Engineer. 

 Richards, Sanitation in Daily Life. Whitcomb and Barrows. 

 Richmond and Wallach, Good Citizenship. American Book Company. 

 Ritchie, Primer of Sanitation. World Book Company. 

 Tolman, Hygiene for the Worker. American Book Company. 

 Winslow, Healthy Living. Charles E. Merrill Company. 



REPORTS, etc. 



Hygeia. American Medical Association. 



Reports of Boards of Health of California, Illinois, New York, Virginia, etc.; 



and of the City of New York and other cities. 

 Bulletins and Publications of Committee of One Hundred on National Health. 

 School Hygiene, American School Hygiene Association. 

 Public Health Reprints: 54, 78, 106, 192, 234, 302, 341, 441, 448, 499, 530; 



680, 723, 821, 827, 850. 

 Farmers' Bulletins: 70, 658, 851, 1227. 



