Excerpt from Short Talks on Personal and Community Health Since 1908 the Department of Public Health and Charities has issued health bulletins in the form of short talks addressed to the public through the press on subjects of vital interest dealing with the prevention of disease and the promotion of the public health. It has been my experience that such education, while profitable, is rather slow. The quickest and most valuable way of teaching the public is through the schools and colleges. Public health education makes its greatest impression upon the young. Their minds can be molded to think along the lines of health and sanitation. The health talks in this book have received the hearty endorsement of the Department of Public Health and Charities of Philadelphia. They are written in such popular form as to be understood by every school pupil and college student. The subjects are so varied as to cover a very wide scope of public health work. A more intimate knowledge of these various principles of preventive medicine will be of greater material benefit than all legislation intended to regulate the habits and customs of the very busy Ameri can public. 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.