xi.

ae

(f) Bacillary dysentery
(gz) Poliomyelitis (7?)
(h) Pneumonia

Management of Carriers

(a) Administration by health authorities
(b) Medical ani Surgical Treatment

References: Storey--Defensive Hygiene, Chapters 18, 19, 20.
Rosenau-—Preventive Medicine, See articles on Malaria,
Yellow Fever, Dysentery, Sleeping Sickness, Syphilis,
Trichinosis, Tapeworms and Hook Worms. Also on
Carriers. :
Bossard-—Problens of Social Well-Being, Chapters 10-15.
McLaughlin--Communicable Diseases. .

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:

 

1. How do protozoa and metozoa differ from bacteria?

2. Are they relatively more or less important to man as causes of
ill-health?

3. Whet are the essential points in the life cycles of.the malarial
parasite?

4, Why is amebic dysentery of special importance to inhabitants of
the Pacific Coast?

5. Discuss our mowledge of the presence of syphilis.

6. Which is the most common method of transmission of syphilis?

7. Should an infection with syphilis be a permanent bar to marriage?
8, Name the most important disease producing metozoa.

9. Discuss the defensive hygiene of metozoa.

10. Discuss the management of healthy disease carriers.

‘WEGHANICAL CAUSES OF ILL HEALTH AND DEATH

The importence of a defensive hygiene program against mechanical
causes of ill health and death is evident when it is noted that approxi-
mately 6% to 8% of the deaths recorded in the Registration Area annually
are caused by accidents of various kinds.

While we have no universal compulsory registration of accidents, the
increasing number of states that require industrial and automobile acci-
dents to be reported is furnishing 1 rapidly increasing basis for more
accurate statistical study.

A considerable number of organizations and government agencies are
engaged in accumulating evidence of the muses of the various mechanical

injuries. Among these my be metioned: