HEALTH

the condition of the body in which the various functions are performed normally. <A district is said to be healthy when the prevailing conditions are accompanied by a scarcity of diseased individuals. In order that H. may be maintained in an individual or in a community, attention must be directed to the following among other considerations: (1) The duty of individuals in keeping their bodies clean and free from disease by attention to food, clothing, habits, and hereditary or occupational tendencies; (2) the duty of the community in relation to the drainage of houses and towns, the building of healthy houses, removal of waste matter, legisla- (So eta nee laeRS eee eeee eee ee eee tion against hurtful employments, and the prevention and stamping out of disease. The science of hygiene has done a great deal in both of these directions. By means of exhibitions, lectures, handbooks, and instruction in schools, the individual has been taught to look after and preserve his H. by attention to simple sanitary rules. To keep the body in H. the proper preparation o. good food is e ential, and girls and women are being encouraged and instructed in this art by means of lectures and cla es in the city, and often by house visitation by the district visitor of H. in the country. The body must be kept clean by baths, and steps are being taken by town councils to ensure that the individual may be enabled to take a bath in comfort and at no great expense. Special organisations and physicians of specialised experience probably have more to do with such cures than the actual chemical constitution of the waters.