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References: Bossard, J. W.--Problems of Social Well-being, Chaps. 7 & 16
Dublin, L. I.--Health and Wealth, Chapter 1
Moore, H. H.--Modern Medicine and the Public Health
Goodnow--Constitutional Foundations of Public Health
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V. SUBDIVISIONS OF SOCIETAL HYGIENE

For purposes of discussion, societal hygiene may be considered under

several subdivisions.

1. Educational hygiene. The necessity
facts makes educational hygiene one
department of health, and the whole

 

é. Informational hygiene. Modern life
researches, surveys, and studies of
health. This service is a function
laboratories; research divisions of
organizations of experts.

 

5. Constructive hygiene. Includes the

 

for wider diffusion of hygienic
of the important functions of the
educational system.

demands a continuous process of

new ways to protect and promote

of departments of health; scientific
colleges and universities; and

intergroup provisions for securing

and safeguarding the food supply; provision for play and recreation;

and regulation of transportation of

facilities.

4, Defensive hygiene. Community provision for defenses against health
hazards involved in water supply, milk supply, waste disposal, communi-
cable diseases, physical, mechanical, biological, and chemical causes of

 

ill health.

VI. PRESENT STATUS OF HEALTH SERVICE IN UNITED STATES

A knowledge of what is now being done to meet the health service needs of
our people is the first step in judging the adequacy of our public hygiene pro-
gram. This can best be obtained by a brief review of the work of the official

and voluntary agencies in the health field.

Governmental Agencies. The health work of the government should be consider-
ed under the head of federal, state, and local units.

 

1. Federal Health Agencies. The health work of the Federal government is
not concentrated in a single department but is scattered through many
bureaus. Only the most important will be considered.

 

a. U.S. Public Health Service. The most important Federal agencies.
Administered as a Bureau in the Treasury Department. Originated (1798)
as Marine Hospital Service to care for sick and disabled seamen.

Powers and functions have been gradually broadened:

 

 

(1) Protection of U.S. from disease from without

(2) Prevention of interstate spread of disease

(3) Co-operation with State and local Boards of Health
(4) Investigation of causes of human disease

(5) Supervision of biological products

(6) Public health education.