An Introduction to Public Health

The author here presents a brief and for the most part a dispassionate survey of the situation as it exists in the field of public health. He presents the conflicting views of individualism on the one hand and the doctrine that government ought to be doing more and more for the health of the individual, with what appears to be a real attempt at fairness. Yet one reads between the lines throughout, and sometimes in the lines, his conviction that government not only must go further in providing for the protection of the public health than it has yet gone but in order to do so must provide medical care for certain elements of the population through public health agencies. He discusses the question of medical care as a function of the public health, when as a matter of fact any broad conception of medicine must contemplate public health as