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HYGIENE AND HEALTH SERIES Hygiene and Health BOOK ONE - 1922 - INTRODUCTION - The distinguishing feature of is its outstanding aim and plan of causing the pupils to form right habits of physical living. In order to achieve this end, they must be led from day to day to do the things that lead to health and vigor, and to avoid the things that injure and weaken.. Each lesson therefore provides for ce... More

HYGIENE AND HEALTH SERIES Hygiene and Health BOOK ONE - 1922 - INTRODUCTION - The distinguishing feature of is its outstanding aim and plan of causing the pupils to form right habits of physical living. In order to achieve this end, they must be led from day to day to do the things that lead to health and vigor, and to avoid the things that injure and weaken.. Each lesson therefore provides for certain suitable activities to be carried out. The children are asked to learn by doing, which is not only good pedagogy, but even better hygiene. The exercises provided are an integral part of the text, and are of the practical sort that find a setting in the daily life of every child. A skilful carrying out of the many simple experimeats and projects given will not only bring zest and motive to the work, but will serve to carry the facts learned over into everyday practise. The wise teacher will, therefore, bend every effort to make the lessons take hold from day to day as they are taught. She will measure her success by the extent to which the children live better physically, here and now, because of the lessons learned, and by the extent to which they are forming right hygienic habits as they are passing through the text. i Those familiar with the texts in this field will note the avoidance in the present volume of two extremes Jirst, the over-emphasis on physiology and anatomy which characterizes the older type of text and, second, the equally dangerous method of certain more recent texts, which offer a collection of mere stories and illustrations combined with sets of hygienic rules. This book stresses hygienic practise above all else, but does not fail to give the underlying facts and explanations for which the childs mind is at this stage ready, and which his curiosity demands. While immediate habits of right living are the great aim sought, the pupil is, step by step, led t o an intelligent understanding of his own body and the laws which govern its welfare. The authors offer this volume as one small contribution to the present national movement to build up a better physical basis of life for our nation. The material in Chapter XXXI, on Good Health Games at end of book, should be used throughout the school term. THE AUTHORS.. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Grateful acknowledgments are made to the following organizations for permission to use photographs supplied by them the National - Tubercu-1osis Association, for pictures appearing on pages 5, 7, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30, 111, 123 the Massachusetts Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, for pictures appearing on pages 17, 43, 52, 97, 98 the National Girl Scouts, for the picture appearing on page 50 the Committee on Public Information, for the picture appearing on page 110 the Indiana l State Board of Health, for the picture appearing on page 80, and the Boston Public Schools for the pictures appearing on pages 134 and 136. THE AUTHORS. CONTENTS CHAPTER I MAKING OUR HABITS O UR FRIENDS . I1 . READY F OR INSPECTION . . . . I11 HEALTH. SIZE AND GROWTH . . . IV HEALTH CRUSADER . S . . . . . . V THE BODYS NEED OF FOOD . . . . V1 WHAT WE EAT . . . . . . . V11 PLANNINGO UR MEALS . . . . . V111 LEARNING TO EAT . . . . . . IX GOOD AND BAD MICROBES . . . . X PROTECTI O N U G R FOOD FR OM MICROBES XI WHY WE SHOULDG ET RID O F FLIES . XI1 PROTECTION AG AINST MOSQUITOES . ...

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