Community ProblemsCentury Company, 1928 - 589 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 384 - The whole purpose of democracy is that we may hold counsel with one another, so as not to depend upon the understanding of one man, but to depend upon the counsel of all.
الصفحة 258 - To acquire and diffuse knowledge of the established principles and practices and of any new methods which promote or give assurance of promoting social health ; to advocate the highest standards of private and public morality; to suppress commercialized vice; to organize the defense of the community by every available means, educational, sanitary, or legislative, against the diseases of vice; to conduct on request inquiries into the present condition of prostitution and the venereal diseases in American...
الصفحة 102 - The general court shall have power to authorize the commonwealth to take land and to hold, improve, Sub-divide, build upon and sell the same, for the purpose of relieving congestion of population and providing homes for citizens...
الصفحة 456 - Boards of school trustees or city boards of education of any school district, may employ teachers to be known as "home teachers," not exceeding one such home teacher for every five hundred units of average daily attendance in the common schools...
الصفحة 288 - Inferior kinds of animals have in common the trait, that all their forces are expended in fulfilling functions essential to the maintenance of life. They are unceasingly occupied in searching for food, in escaping from enemies, in forming places of shelter, and in making preparations for progeny. But as we ascend to animals of high types, having faculties more efficient and more numerous, we begin to find that time and strength are not wholly absorbed in providing for immediate needs.
الصفحة 456 - It shall be the duty of the home teacher to work in the homes of the pupils, instructing children and adults in matters relating to school attendance and preparation therefor; also in sanitation, in the English language, in household duties such as purchase, preparation and use of food and of clothing and in the fundamental principles of the American system of government and the rights and duties of citizenship.
الصفحة 186 - Report of the Committee on Municipal Health Department Practice of the American Public Health Association in cooperation with the US Public Health Service (Public Health Bulletin No.
الصفحة 504 - The annual quota of any nationality for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1927, and for each fiscal year thereafter, shall be a number which bears the same ratio to 150,000 as the number of inhabitants in continental United States in 1920...
الصفحة 237 - America; Council on Health and Public Instruction of the American Medical Association; National Committee for Mental Hygiene; National Organization for Public Health Nursing; National Tuberculosis Association...
الصفحة 44 - ... crops up anew, and it is to the abolition of these conditions that we must first and foremost direct our attention if we wish to attack the evil at its root and to wage war against it with effective weapons.