The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . t was found that the city health department had done creditable work with the resources at its was very meagerly financed and, probably as a consequence,ignored its two greatest opportunities for life-saving—doingnothing to stop the heavy inroads upon infant life or to re-strict the ravages of tuberculosis. Measured in appropria-tions, Springfield rated the service it had created particularlyfor the protection of life and health at less than one-sixth asimportant as its police force, and less than one-tenth as im-portant as its fire department. M
The Survey October 1916-March 1917 . t was found that the city health department had done creditable work with the resources at its was very meagerly financed and, probably as a consequence,ignored its two greatest opportunities for life-saving—doingnothing to stop the heavy inroads upon infant life or to re-strict the ravages of tuberculosis. Measured in appropria-tions, Springfield rated the service it had created particularlyfor the protection of life and health at less than one-sixth asimportant as its police force, and less than one-tenth as im-portant as its fire department. Mental Hygiene With the flesh and blood public so slow to comprehend thethief of health, lack of sanitation, as compared with the prop-erty owners ripe concern against burglary and fire, it is per-haps natural that our American communities have not yetawakened to the fact that in reaching for fulness of life theycannot afford to fall behind in mental health also. If themind is sick, but little counts. But happily, as in other sick-. FORE1GN WHITES NEGROES BIRTH RATE PREVENTABLE DEATHS AND THEIRSOCIAL SETTING IN SPRINGFIELD rHE darker shadings inmaps on the right showwards having the higher deathrates. In maps on the leftdarker shadings indicate wardswith higher proportions ofNegroes and foreign - bornwhites, and higher birth rates.
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