Six Lectures Upon School Hygiene Delivered Under The Auspices Of The Massachusetts Emergency And Hy

Author : Massachusetts Emergency and Hygiene Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330073285
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (732 download)

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Download or read book Six Lectures Upon School Hygiene written by Massachusetts Emergency and Hygiene Association and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Six Lectures Upon School Hygiene: Delivered Under the Auspices of the Massachusetts Emergency and Hygiene Association to Teachers in the Public Schools To more thoroughly understand the relations which the Emergency and Hygiene Association bears to school sanitation, it will be necessary, in the first place, to briefly refer to the origin of this Society and to the scope of its work. In 1883 the Woman's Education Association, to which body this community is indebted for several very important reforms, recognizing the necessity for diffusing useful and practical knowledge among the masses, to be used in cases of accident or sudden sickness, undertook to provide such instruction, by volunteer lectures to both men and women, as would accomplish this result. Seven courses of lectures to free classes and three to paying classes were given during the first year with such success, that the Association was encouraged to increase the number of courses in the following year to twenty-five. Of this number, eight were given to the police force, and two to the members of the fire department. These lectures simply gave instruction as to what should be done in cases of emergency, before the arrival of the physician or surgeon, with only enough theory added to render the practice intelligible. While the work of the winter was progressing, the advisory board, which had been formed of gentlemen representing various callings, was gradually enlarged; and when it became evident that the field of labor had outgrown the limits imposed by the rules of the Woman's Association, it was deemed fitting that the responsibilities should be assumed by a new organization. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.