A half century of public health
Subtitle: jubilee historical volume of the American Public Health Association, in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary celebration of its foundation, New York City, November 14-18, 1921
By: ed. by Mazÿck P. Ravenel ...
Contributors: Ravenel, Mazÿck Porcher.
Publisher: American Public Health Association
Published: 1921
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Public health -- History; Hygiene -- Societies, etc; Sanitation -- History; Public health -- United States
Notes: --History of industrial hygiene and its effect on public health, by G.M. Kober.--A fifty year sketch history of medical entomology and its relation to public health, by L.O. Howard.--The history of public nursing, by Lavinia L. Dock.
Table of contents: title: The history of public health, 1871-1921, by S. Smith.; title: The American Public Health Association, past, present, future, by M.P. Ravenel.; title: The story of public health in Canada, by P.H. Bryce.; title: The history of bacteriology and its contribution to public health work, by F.P. Gorham.; title: American mortality progress during the last half century, by F.L. Hoffman.; title: The United States quarantine system during the past fifty years, by H.S. Cumming.; title: History of state and municipal control of disease, by C.V. Chapin.; title: Fifty years of water purification, by G.C. Whipple.; title: Sewage and solid refuse removal, by R. Hering.; title: Stream pollution by industrial wastes and its control, by E.B. Phelps.; title: Progress in Federal food control, by C.L. Alsberg.; title: Food conservation, by S.C. Prescott.; title: Milk and its relation to public health, by C.E. North.; title: The history of child welfare work in the United States, by P. Van Ingen.; title: Housing as a factor in health progress in the past fifty years, by L. Veiller.; title: What fifty years have done for ventilation, by G.T. Palmer.