The Nature and Cause of Communicable Diseases

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Excerpt from The Nature and Cause of Communicable Diseases: Also Suggestions Relative to Defective Eyes and Ears Spinal Diseases Heating and Ventilation What knowledge is of most value to the individual? Manifestly that which enables him to maintain his own and his family's existence. Such knowledge unquestionably is of more foundational importance than that which fits one even for citizenship or society. Desirable as are those studies which prepare one to enjoy the leisure pursuits of life, yet unquestionably, a knowledge of some of the facts relating to sanitary science in its relation to public health would be of the greatest value to every person, for in our individual, family, or social relations, every person is sooner or later brought face to face with the problems presented by epidemic disease, and if anywhere timely action is ever needed, it is just in such a connection as this, where procrastination through ignorance or otherwise may lead to wide spread death. The statement is often made that our forefathers got along well enough in the good old days when a lack of knowledge concerning germs and bacteria did not disturb their peace of mind, but it may not be out of place to consider that while our forebears were able to exist, for a time at least, that great multitudes of their fellows failed to live the usually allotted span of life. Not only has the annual mortality rate been reduced to one-third or one-fourth of what it was two or three centuries ago, but the average length of life of the individual has been consequently prolonged. Some of this benefit comes from a general improvement in hygienic conditions that has affected all classes of disease, but the most marked reduction has been with those diseases that are communicable from person to person either directly or indirectly. 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.