The child at school : being chapters on the medical superintendence of growth / by Sir Leslie Mackenzie.

  • Leslie Mackenzie
Date:
1926
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Credit: The child at school : being chapters on the medical superintendence of growth / by Sir Leslie Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION TO THE MODERN HEALTH BOOKS THE general attitude towards Health, in this country, has changed perceptibly during the last fifty years. Scientific analysis of the factors determining health and the in- creasing recognition that many of them are within human control have been responsible for the change. Passive acceptance has given way to active interest and to a conviction that the conditions of health, so far as they depend on the efforts of the individual, or of the community, should be regulated to the best advantage. The citizen of average intelligence to-day knows far more than his parents did about the means of securing his personal health, and he is eager to know more still. He appreciates the importance of accurate information on such questions as diet, ventilation, exercise, the choice of his house, the care of his children, infections, and epidemics. But he is not satis-
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