Open AccessSOME RELATION BETWEEN OUR HEALTH AND OUR ENVIRONMENT
Author(s) -
Watson Frank Walker
Publication year - 1923
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.13.11.897-a
Subject(s) - offensive , contentment , unrest , point (geometry) , environmental health , race (biology) , medicine , criminology , law , political science , psychology , sociology , engineering , social psychology , gender studies , politics , operations research , geometry , mathematics
"It is not too much to say that an adequate solution of the housing question is the foundation of all social progress. Health, and housing, are indissolubly connected. If this country is to be the country which we desire, a great offensive must be taken against disease and crime, and the first point at which the attack must be delivered is the ugly, unhealthy, overcrowded house, in the mean street, which we all of us know too well."If a healthy race is to be reared it can be reared only in healthy homes. If infant mortality is to be reduced, and tuberculosis to be stamped out, the first essential is the improvement of housing conditions; if drink and crime are to be successfully combated, sanitary houses must be provided. If ;unrest' is to be converted to contentment, the provisions of good housing may prove one of the most potent agencies in that conversion."