A report on national vitality : its wastes and conservation / Prepared for the National Conservation Commission.

  • Fisher, Irving, 1867-1947.
Date:
1909
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    Hoffman, Frederick L., cited, 23, 28, 32, 37, 101; quoted, 26. Hohenzollern family, 53. Holmes, G. K., cited, 87. Holt, L. Emmett, estimates by, 113 n.^, 114. Home economics, science of, 71, 88. Homes Commission, 81. Hook-worm disease, 35, 60; shortening of life by, 110; preventability of, 113 n.b; money losses from, 122. Hospitals, establishment of contagious, 70. House fly, danger of infection from typhoid from, 29, 57. Houses, air in, 84-85. Howard, L. O., 29; cited, 32, 35, 57; on prevalence of malaria in United States, 3-5; report by, ! quoted, 99; estimates by, 114: on cost of malaria, annually, 120. Howe, Charles S., 125 n.d. Huber, John, cited, 34, 88. Huddersfield, lowering of infant mortality rate in, 121. Humboldt, Alexander von, 33, 41, 82, 83. Humphreys, cited, 30, 36. Hungary, death rate from smallpox in, 29. Hunniston, quoted, 94 n.6. Hurty, J. N., quoted, 52. Hydrotherapy, 66, 90, 96. Hygiene, classification of, in three groups: public, semipublic, and personal, 55; division of pubUc, into municipal, state, and federal, 56; municipal ordinances along line of public, 56-59; municipal should be supplemented by state, 59; state, comprises regulation of woman and child labor, length of working day, industrial accidents, and tenements, 59^1;federal, 61-64; semipublic, de- fined, 64; use of, in the medical profession, 65-70; displacement of medicines and serums by, 66; institutional, 70-72; mental, 70-71; of school life, 72-79; organizations devoted to promoting, 79- 81; importance of personal, 82; three branches of personal: hygiene of environment, of nutrition, and of activity, 83; of environment, 84-86; of nutrition, 86-88; avoidance of poisons the first rule of, 88; activity, 90-92; sex,'92-95; value of imitation to progress in, 96; question of science of, conflicting with science of eugenics, 97-101; eflectof,onman's working period, 109; national, state, and municipal measures to ha taken tending toward, 126-128; importance of observ- ance of personal, and of study and practice of eugenics, 129. Idiots, sterilization of, 52,129. Igorots, teeth of, 95 n.a Illness, statistics of, 34; money cost of, 119-120. See Invalidity. Imitation, value of power of, to hygienic progress, 96; force of, among children, 96-97. Im-migrants, money value of, 118. Immigration, death rate in America modified by, 19. Immorality, race extinction resulting from, 101. India, duration of life in, 10; no increase in length of life in, 19,102; death rate of, 20. Indiana, prohibition in, of undesirable marriages, 52; sterilization of criminals and defectives in, 52; example of, should be followed, 129. Indians, an example of race extinction due to im- morality, 101. Industrial insurance, statistics from, 23. Infants, lowering of death rate among, 25-27; re- duction in mortality of, by pure-milk supply, 58, 121; question of benefit of prolonging lives of, 97-98; high mortality rate among, tends to stunt all life, 99. Information, governmental dissemination of, 62,127. Insane, prolongation of lives of the, 52-53,97; money cost of^ annually, 120. Insanity, mcrease of, 36, 97; checking of, 70; rela- tion of drinking to, 88; resulting from venereal diseases, 93. Insect-bome diseases, 57, 67; money cost of, 120; measures against, should be taken by munici- palities, 128. Institutional hygiene, 70-72. Insurance companies, influence to be exercised by, 80, 129; statistics of, regarding drinking, 89; advantages to, of actively joining in public- health movement, 123. International Congress on School Hygiene, 72, 79. Invalidity, universality of, 33; loss of time from, 33-34; statistics of, 34; from minor aihnents, 38-39; money cost of, 119-120. Invention, part played by, in industrial progress, 125. loteyko, J., cited, 43. Ishmael famUy, 53. Italy, duration of life in, 16; death rate of, 20; atten- tion to school hygiene in, 72. Jacobi, A., cited, 61-69. Japan, death rate of, 20; physical training and hygiene in, 51; efficiency of hygiene of, shown in army, 63; principal causes of progress in, 96,125. Jarvis, Edward, cited, 17, 34, 109, 123; quoted, 49. Jaundice, possible significance of, 39. Jevons, W. Stanley, cited, 60. Jessen, on cost of school dental clinic in Germany, 123. Johnson, G. Woodrufl, cited, 74. Jordan, David Starr, cited, bin.d Jordan, Edwin O., 114. Juke family, 53. K. Kant, example of, 82. Kastle, Jos. H., cited, 29. Keating, Mother and Child by, 73. Keller, Albert G., Eugenics by, 54 n.<J Kellogg, J. H., cited, 90, 114, 120. Kipiani, Varia, cited, 43. Kirkpatrick, cited, 75. Kober, George M., cited, 17, 24, 29, 38, 58, 59; on annual cost of typhoid, 120. Koch, extermination of diphtheria in Trier by, 113 n.b Kraeplin, cited, 72. Krupp, example of, 126. Kuropatkin, cited, 100. Ladies' Home Journal, stand taken against objec- tionable advertising bv, 81. Lambert, T. S., quoted, 121. Lankester, E. R., cited, 52, 111; quoted, 110. Lausanne, morbidity among-schoolgirls in, 74. Lawrence, Mass., loVeruig of typhoid fever death rate in, 28. I/Can meat, excessive use of, in diet, 42-43, 87, 91. Leprosv, isolation treatment and disappearance of, 70. Levasseur, E., cited, 22. Life, money valuation of human, 117-120; conser- vation of. See under Vitality. Life, breadth of: Invalidity the opponent of, 33-34; to be gained negatively by preventing disease, 40; positively, by cultivation of vitality, 47-48. Life, length of: In leading countries, 16; at different times, 17-19; reciprocal relation between death rate and 19,117; rate of increase in, per centnrv, 102-103; 'the normal, 111-112. Life, prolongation of: Table showing the possible, 104-106; diagram showing effect of, at different ages, 107-109; fifteen years a safe minimum esti- mate of possible, 109-111; valuable results from, 111. Light, benefits from, 86. Lindsey, Ben. B., 90. Liquor problem, 120. See Alcohol. Liquor traffic, control of, 59. Liver disorders, increase in death rate from, 27. Locomotor ataxia, sj^^hilis may lead to, 93; possible prolongation of life by elimination of, 105. Lodging houses, inspection of, 128. Lombard, Warren P., quoted, 42. London, historical records of mortality in, 24; de- fective vision of school children in, 74-75.