Community civics and rural life . vate ownership of the supply. Cost to thehouseholder. Extent to which the families represented in your class depend uponprivate wells. How many have had their well water examined to test itspurity. How to proceed to have water tested. Who tests it? Who paysfor the test? (If possible, visit the laboratory where the tests are made.) Number of cases of typhoid fever in your community, now or during lastyear. How the information can be obtained. Is the information likely 1 Report of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1017, pp. 136-138. THE COMMUNITYS HEALTH 321 to be acc
Community civics and rural life . vate ownership of the supply. Cost to thehouseholder. Extent to which the families represented in your class depend uponprivate wells. How many have had their well water examined to test itspurity. How to proceed to have water tested. Who tests it? Who paysfor the test? (If possible, visit the laboratory where the tests are made.) Number of cases of typhoid fever in your community, now or during lastyear. How the information can be obtained. Is the information likely 1 Report of the Rockefeller Foundation, 1017, pp. 136-138. THE COMMUNITYS HEALTH 321 to be accurate ? Whose business is it to keep a record ? Why should a rec-ord be kept? Why should it be made public? Causes of typhoid in your community. Are they preventable? How?Observance of quarantine against typhoid. How may wells become polluted? Give cases of which you may diagram on page 314. Methods of sewage disposal in your community. Laws on the you suggest improvements? THE OLD Bs4/?M THEA/EW THEOLDM/LK. A Result of Milk Inspection Regulation of milk production and handling in your community: onthe farms where it is produced; in the hands of dealers and distributors;in the home. Who make these regulations? Outline on a map the area from which your community is supplied withmilk. Show on a map cities that are supplied by your county with dairyproducts, garden vegetables, meats, etc. Clean-up campaigns in your community. Progress and methods of fly and mosquito extermination in your com-munity. The work of the Rockefeller Foundation for the extermination of hook-worm disease (see references). Hospitals that serve your community. Where located. By whom sup-ported (private, city or town, county, state). 322 COMMUNITY CIVICS Health protection, like education, has been considered pri-marily the duty of the state. But many conditions affectinghealth have arisen that the state cannot com-pletely control. Chiefly under the power givento it by the Constitution
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