Excerpt from General Hygiene
Hygiene. The science and the art of preserving health. "A part of the wisdom of the Egyptians at least 1500 B.C."
General Hygiene. The natural laws that govern health. The science of hygiene includes scientific information concerning the agents that injure health, the contributory causes of poor health, the carriers of disease, the defenses of health and the producers of health (constructive hygiene).
Individual Hygiene. The applications of the natural laws of hygiene for the health welfare of the individual.
Group Hygiene. The applications of the natural laws of hygiene for the health welfare of groups of individuals, the members of a group being associated more or less intimately with each other for considerable periods of time under common environmental influences, common hygienic advantages and disadvantages and under common health responsibilities and regulations. Includes the hygiene of such groups as the family, the school, the occupations and certain public institutions.
Intergroup Hygiene. The application of the natural laws of hygiene for the health welfare of associated groups of humans, the several groups being dominated by common interests, exposed to common health dangers and competent to establish and enforce common standards of individual and group responsibility for community health. Includes the hygiene of the rural community, the village, the city, the town or township, the county, the State, the nation and alliance of nations.
The subject matter of individual hygiene, group hygiene and intergroup hygiene falls very logically into several main divisions. These divisions have been designated in this syllabus as: Educational hygiene, informational hygiene, defensive hygiene, and constructive hygiene.
The important subdivisions of defensive hygiene are protective hygiene, preventive hygiene, remedial hygiene, and aggressive hygiene.
Educational hygiene is the instruction or training in hygiene that leads to the formation of habits of good judgment in matters that relate to health, and to the formation of good habits of conduct in relation to the preservation of health.
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