Open AccessSCHOOL HYGIENE A NATIONAL PROBLEM
Author(s) -
J. A. Nydegger
Publication year - 1919
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2330-9687
pISSN - 0271-4353
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.9.6.442
Subject(s) - mental hygiene , hygiene , environmental health , medicine , mental health , family medicine , psychiatry , pathology
"Rural schools are neglected and insanitary," is the motif of this essay. There are four times as many mental defecitves as in the city, while half the children have enlarged tonsils, etc. This author calls for reform here if as a nation we are to hold our place in the world.