516 MAN CONTROLS HIS ENVIRONMENT FOR HEALTH 



Keep more than five feet distant from those who cough or sneeze . 5 



Take care to use handkerchief if you cough or sneeze 5 



Stay in the house if you have a cold 5 



All clothing clean and sterile at all times 5 



Wounds properly disinfected 5 



h. Clothing, bathing, and ventilation 



Proper outer clothing 10 



Proper and clean underclothing 10 



Bathing twice a week at least 10 



Proper bedroom hygiene 10 



Proper home ventilation 10 



i. Lighting my home 



Sunlight plentiful 10 



Windows ample, wall papers good reflectors 10 



Artificial light economical 10 



Proper lighting for all kinds of work 10 



Good systems of lighting used _10 



Total Possible Score 500 



5. What do you know about the sanitation of your own com- 

 munity? Its water supplies, milk and food inspection, garbage and 

 ash disposal, sewage disposal? What agencies care for each of the 

 above? What would you do in case of a typhoid outbreak in your 

 city? Septic sore throat? Tuberculosis of children? 



6. Is your school adequately ventilated? Is its heating plant, 

 the sanitary condition of its toilets, gymnasium, and the methods of 

 cleaning the best possible? 



7. What is the Board of Education doing to protect your health? 



8. Do you have a sanitary code in your community? If so, who 

 administers it? What do you know about it? Is there adequate 

 inspection of food supplies? Care of milk? Do you know where 

 the milk you drink comes from and how it is cared for ? 



9. To what extent in the past have you, as a young citizen, 

 cooperated with the authorities to make your town a more sanitary 

 and safer place to live in? 



Useful References 



Allen, Civics and Health. (Ginn & Co.) 



Andress, Aldinger, Goldberger, Health Essentials. (Ginn & Co. 1928.) 



Broadhurst, Home and Community Hygiene. (J. B. Lippincott Co. 



1925.) 

 Broadhurst, How We Resist Diseases. (J. B. Lippincott Co. 1923.) 

 Bulletins and Publications of Committee of One Hundred on National 



Health. 

 De Kruif, Microbe Hunters. (Harcourt, Brace & Co. 1926.) 

 Farmers' Bulletins : 70, 658, 851. 

 Hunter, Laboratory Problems in Civic Biology. (American Book 



Company.) 



