A Plan for a more effective federal and state health administrationAmerican Public Health Association. Prudential Press, 1919 |
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Page 8 - ... (d) A certificate signed by a public health physician or a public school physician, specifying what in the opinion of such physician is the physical age of the child; such certificate shall show the height and weight of the child and other facts concerning its physical development revealed by such examination and upon which the opinion of the physician as to the physical age of the child is based.
Page 8 - English language and that in his opinion the child is fourteen years of age or upwards and has reached the normal development of a child of its age, and is in sound health and is physically able to perform the work which it intends to do.
Page 21 - The States Relations Service represents the Secretary of Agriculture in his relations with the State agricultural colleges and experiment stations, under the acts of Congress granting funds to these institutions for agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, and in carrying out the provisions of acts of Congress making appropriations to this department for farmers' cooperative demonstration work, investigations relating to agricultural schools,...
Page 6 - Transactions of a Special Conference of State and Territorial Health Officers with the United States Public Health Service, for the consideration of the prevention of the spread of poliomyelitis. Held at Washington, August 17 and 18, 1916.
Page 13 - Act, to take all such steps as may be desirable to secure the preparation, effective carrying out and co-ordination of measures conducive to the health of the people...
Page 21 - State agricultural colleges and experiment stations under the acts of Congress granting funds to these institutions for agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension work in agriculture and home economics, and in carrying out the provisions of acts of Congress making appropriations to the Department of Agriculture for farmers' cooperative demonstration work, investigations relating to agricultural schools, farmers' institutes, and home economics, and the maintenance of agricultural experiment...
Page 3 - ... Committee are emphatic in recommending the creation of an Advisory Council, representing the Departments of State, within whose province questions touching the physical well-being of the people fall, with the addition of members nominated by the medical corporations and others, whose duty it should be, not only to receive and apply the information derived from the Anthropometric Survey and the Register of Sickness, but also to advise the Government on all legislative and administrative points...
Page 46 - ... are represented respectively by the National Committee for Mental Hygiene, the American Social Hygiene Association, the National Tuberculosis Association, the American Society for the Control of Cancer, and the American Heart Association.
Page 16 - Director of the school for health officers of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Formerly Director of the Hygienic Laboratory, United States Public Health Service, etc.
Page 43 - Essays and Papers on Some Fallacies of Statistics concerning Life and Death, Health and Diseases, with Suggestions towards an Improved System of Registration.