“…It may not be possible to get rid of all "droplet" infections; they are more difficult to control than the infections — such as typhoid fever and cholera — that used to come from a dirty water supply. …”

“…There were 348 corrected notifications of, and 38 deaths from, typhoid fever in 1948, and 373 corrected notifications of, and 10 deaths from, paratyphoid fever. …”

“…1939-05 1939 1930s 50 pages : illustrations HINTS FOR THE BUSY HOUSEWIFE any food they touch, and will greatly detract from your natural and healthy enjoyment of what you eat. Many cases of typhoid fever and food poisoning have been traced to germs from bodily excretions being conveyed to food by the dirty hands of the cook. …”

“…Diphtheria, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, sore throat, and an unpleasant disease called undulant fever may also be spread by unboiled or unpasteurised milk. …”

“…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. …”