COLLECTIVE HEALTH
“AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER ? ” HYGIENISTS ANSWER “YES” “The immediate purpose of Health Week is to . . . impart sound information as to public and personal hygiene, and to build up a public opinion, which will not tolerate a high disease rate or excessive infant mortality, and which feels as a personal reproach the sight of an illnourished or neglected child.” The above is the considered view of the medical men and others behind the British Health Week organisation. The principle underlying the quotation is that each and every person in a community has, directly or indirectly, some influence in moulding the public health. To be personally blameable for bad public health, it is not necessary to be the carrier and the disseminator of infection. Negatively if not positively, blame attaches to anvone, healthy or otherwise, to-whom public hygiene is a matter of indifference. Health Week—the first week in October —relies on the recognition by each citizen of personal responsibility for health. In this sense, everyone is his brother’s keeper. The committees of the local movement are already active, and are relying upon public interest.
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Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 287, 21 August 1923, Page 5
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185COLLECTIVE HEALTH Dominion, Volume 17, Issue 287, 21 August 1923, Page 5
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