Transactions of the Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, Washington, September 23-28, 1912, Volume 3

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1913
 

Contents

The Relation of Teacher and Pupil with especial reference to the Education
237
Results to individuals from medical inspection
245
A School
255
What Medical Inspection of Schools Can Do for the Teacher
265
Die Schulärztin an den höheren Mädchenschulen Eine sozialhygienische
273
The Public School as a Possible Factor in Preventing Infant and Child Mor
286
Parents Cooperation in Promotion of Child Hygiene
294
Prenatal Work in Certain American Cities
304
Infant Mortality and its Relation to the Employment of Mothers in Fall River
318
Field Work in Tuberculosis
338
Dental Hygiene for the Pupils of Public Schools
350
The Human Mouth in its Relation to Public Health
359
The Hygiene of Childrens Teeth
365
The Education of Partly Paralyzed Muscles
378
Phases in the Development of the Infant Welfare Movement in England
388
Municipal Supervision of Maternity
396
The Prophylactic and Therapeutic Value of Fresh Air in Schools and Hospitals
406
Remarks on the Anthropological Study of Children
413
Physical Efficiency Tests during Adolescence
420
The Esthesiometric Method Measuring Fatigue in the Light of the Logarithmic
429
Account of the Proceedings of a Meeting of the Subsection on Mental Hygiene
459
The Scope of the Work of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene
468
Notes on the Prevention of Epilepsy
477
Report of the Secretary
491
Address by the President
499
Fatigue Factors in Certain Types of Occupations
512
Some Considerations Regarding the Factor of Fatigue with Reference to Indus
526
The Suppression of Unnecessary Noise
533
Stimmhygiene ihre Bedeutung und ihre Organisation in Preussen Deutschland
541
Uber die Unglücksfälle und Berufskrankheiten der Minen und Tunnelarbeiter
673
Diseases and Accidents of Miners and Tunnel Workers in the United States
691
Injuries Caused by Electricity
703
Injuries and Diseases Occurring in Electric Generating Plants
710
Accidents par électrocution
730
The Economic Aspects of Hookworm Disease in Porto Rico
742
The Economic Aspects of Hookworm in the United States
757
Brass Founders Ague
764
Industrial Mercurial Poisoning in FeltHat Makers
778
Die Gefahren in dem Gebrauche des Quecksilbers in der Industrie
788
Lhydrargysme dans les couperies de poils
800
Lead Poisoning in the United States
809
Industrial Lead Poisoning and some of the Problems it Raises
821
Industrial Plumbism
827
Legal Protection for Workers in Dangerous Trades in the United States
836
Occupational Diseases and the Physical Examination of Workers
844
Results of a Hygienic and Sanitary Inquiry into the Italian Printing Trade
857
Die ständige Ausstellung für Arbeiterwohlfahrt in Charlottenburg Anstalt
870
Sanitary Control of an Industry by the Industry Itself
881
Industrial Insurance the Basis of Industrial Hygiene
890
The Hygiene of Occupation and its Administrative Control
899
Ueber japanisches Fabrikgesetz
907
The Relation of the United States Bureau of Labor to Industrial Hygiene
914
State Commissions on Occupational Diseases
920
Government Study of Occupational Diseases
928
Infant Mortality in Relation to Factory Labor
943
Altersprobleme gewerblicher Hygiene
957
The Labor and Work of Children Should be Adapted to the Individual Child
975
Index end of Volume III Part II
1039

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