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(Course 153)

The Home. and, the School Health Program

 

No health program can possibly reach its highest usefulness that is not
intimately linked up with the home. This is particularly true because it
involves:

1. Training in practice of health habits
2. Medical and nursing supervision

This relationship between the home and school is now being accomplished in

many communities through the medium of such organizations as the Parent-
Teachers Association.

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By the time this point is reached, there should be no need to point out

the importance of the hygime of the oceupational group. Frequently where
this subject is considered, it is interpreted to mean only the industrial
worker. In this course it is proposed to point out the application of the
principles of hygiee to all employed persons—industrial, commercial, and
professional. It will not be possible to consider jn detail each of the sub
groups. We will use the method of typical examples.

History of Groups

Only the very briefest mention can be made of the history and development

of industry, commerce, and the professions, The interested student will be
curious to trace their evolution in their relationship to present day health
resources and liabilities of the various groups.

1, Industrial group. Forms the lamgest single group of occupied persons.

 

a. Prehistoric period. “Shall mounds and flint heaps” were
really primitive factories for the manufacture of imple-
. ments of offense and defense.

 

b. Domestic period. Covered the time that industry was in
and for the house out of raw materials furnished by the
nouse.s

 

c. Handicraft period. Carried on in or outside of the house,
usually by free workers, Always works for the consumer.-

 

d, Modern factory system. Supplies the economic wants of per-
Sons, communities, and nations by wholesale production in
especially constructed plants operated by wage earne rs

 

Re Commercial group, This group is not so large as some other occupa-
tional groups, but the rapid growth of cities ms increased both
its size and relative importance from a health point of view,

fhe evolution of our commercial groups does not stand out in periods
quite so clearly as is the case with the industrial groups. During
the past 50 years,.with growth of cities the health problems of

the commercial groups have assumed more definite form,