half century of public health
Subtitle: jubilee historical volume of the American pubblic 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 heallth association
Published: 1921
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
Subjects: Public health -- United States -- History; Sanitation -- United States -- History
Table of contents: title: The history of public health, 1871-1921, by S. Smith.  The American public health association, past, present, future, by M.P. Ravenel.  The story of public health in Canada, by P.H. Bryce.  The history of bacteriology and its contribution to public health work, by F.P. Gorham.  American mortality progress during the last half century, by F.L. Hoffman.  The United States quarantine system during the past fifty years, by H.S. Cumming.  History of state and municipal control of disease, by C.V. Chapin.  Fifty years of water purification, by G.C. Whipple.  Sewage and solid refuse removal, by R. Hering.  Stream pollution by industrial wastes and its control, by E.B. Phelps.  Progress in federal food control, by C.L. Alsberg.  Food conservation, by S.C. Prescott.  Milk and its relation to public health, by C.E. North.  The history of child welfare work in the United States, by P. Van Ingen.   Housing as a factor in health progress in the past fifty years, by L. Veiller.  What fifty years have done for ventilation, by G.T. Palmer.  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 health nursing, by Lavinia L. Dock.