“…It has not been a serious problem in this country for something like 70 years. People catch typhus by being bitten by lice which have sucked the blood of a patient with typhus. …”

“…The infant mortality rate has ........... fallen by two-thirds. Cholera, typhus, typhoid, and smallpox have been................................. practically wiped out. …”

“…If there was an epidemic of some deadly disease like typhus or 'flu of the 1918 type which at one time was killing 80,000 people a week in England, all manner of drastic measures would be taken to stop the spread of infection from one person to another. …”

“…1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations Page Nits............... 19 Noise and sleeplessness 3 Orange juice, allowance of........ 12 —vitamins, substitutes for............ 11 Oxygen, functions of 9, 10 Parents and children's health.... 16,17 Parsley, food value of 12 Pasteurised milk .... 20 Peas, food value of.. 10 Potatoes, food value of........ 10, 11, 12 —to cook .......... 12 Protective foods..... 8 Protein, need for .... 10 Public Health Services............21, 22 Radishes, food value of..............................12 Rationing and balanced diet................8 Raw foods, value of..12 Recreation....................6-7 Regularity, importance of......................2-4 Respiration ................9 Rest ............................2, 7 Rickets ........3,8,11 Routine ....................2 Rowing exercise .... 7 Salads, food value of 2 Salmon, food value of 10 Salts in vegetables... 12 Scabies............ 19 Scarlet fever........ 20 School Nurse........ 19 Scurvy............ 8,11 Seawater bathing.... 6 Sex problems......14, 15 Shoes for women.... 7 Sleep, hours required 3, 4 —regularity in...... 2-4 Sleeplessness, remedies for.............. 3-4 Slimming tablets, danger of........ 8 Smoking, excess .... 13 Sneezing, and germs.. 21 Sore throat, a cause of 20 Spinach, food value of 10 Spirits, effects of.... 13 Starch foods, need for 9 Stomach disorders, causes of ........ 2-3 Suet, food value of..10 Sugar, food value of.. 9 Sunbathing precautions............. 5, 6 Sunburn, to avoid .. 6 Sunshine, value of.. 5 "Sunshine" vitamins 11 Sunstroke, to avoid.. 6 Sweat, function of ... 5 Swede turnip, food value of.......... 11 Sweets, food value of 8 Swimming.......... 6, 7 Tea ..............3,13 teeth, foods for....10 Temperature, fluctuations of................5 —healthy....................5 —ideal room................5 —normal ....................5 Thinness ....................8 Thyroid tablets............8 Tobacco........................13 Tomatoes, food value of .......................12 Tuberculosis, a cause of.............. 8,20 Typhoid fever.... 20, 21 Typhus........................18 Ultra-violet rays... 5 Underfeeding....... 8 Undulant fever, a cause of..........20 Vaccination ......21-22 Vegetable water, to use.............. 12 Vegetables, raw, value of............... 12 —to cook .......... 12 Venereal disease.....14-15 -causes of......14-15 -ciinics for...... 15 -in parents.... 14 -pregnancy and.. 15 -prevention of.. 14-15 -treatment of... 15 Ventilation ........ 3-5 —black-out and .... 4 Vitamin A.......... 11 Vitamin B........10, 11 Vitamin C.......... 10 Vitamin D..........5,11 Vitamin E.......... 11 Vitamin K.......... 11 Vitamins in vegetables 11, 12 Walking.......... 7 War effort, and illness 20 War work and health 3, 6 Water, importance of 3,13 —purification of.... 22 Watercress, food value of..............10,12 Welfare Centres.... 11, 22 Wheatmeal bread.... 12 Whooping cough.. 20,22 Women, shoes for .... 7 —thinness in........ 8 —Health Services for 22 Work, regularity in.. 2 Worry, causes of .... 16 —sleeplessness and .. 3 To be purchased from His Majesty's Stationery Office at : York House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2; 120 George Street, Edinburgh, 2; 39/41 King Street, Manchester, 2; 1 St. …”