Public health and insurance: American addresses

After thirty-five years in active public health work in England—during eleven of those years having been the principal officer of its central public health department on its med...

The subject is too large to be treated adequately in the course of an evening’s address; and to bring it within manageable compass it is necessary for me to select my material r...

Medicine has always been the most altruistic of learned professions; and can proudly claim that its practitioners have ever been ready to give gratuitous assistance to all in ne...

So far as a majority of the population are concerned, it is necessary to realize that they are never far removed from the line dividing destitution from adequacy, using the word...

The Great War has changed our outlook on social, including medical, problems; and has made all of us consider anxiously in the midst of the terrible wreckage from war, what usef...

On examining the local city directory, one cannot but be impressed by the multiplicity of voluntary organizations having for their object the immediate relief of destitution or...

There are two ways in which Health Problems can be approached: what may be called the microscopic method, which examines in minute detail each individual problem; and the conspe...

I use the word Poverty, for the purpose of this discussion, as meaning Destitution, in the sense of lack of means to provide some specific requirement, indispensable for the hea...

My task is to attempt to give a bird’s-eye view of “The Methods of Controlling Tuberculosis in England,” and to revaluate, as far as is practicable, in the light of many years’...

The subject of child welfare, in its chief developments, cannot be separated from that of Public Health, of which it forms a constituent part, though I do not ignore the fact th...