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HYGIENE AND SANITATION.

1. Household and Personal Hygiene.—This course will be especially
adapted to the needs of teachers, and of students of cooking,
and will cover the matter usually outlined in standard texts upon the


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subject. Some time will be spent in the study of each of the following
topics: food and diatetics; the action of household drugs on the
human body; bacteriological decomposition of meats and vegetables;
the sanitary treatment of soil, air, and water; the treatment and disposal
of sewage; the sanitation of dwellings and schools; the relation
of insects to disease; infection, susceptibility, and immunity; personal
hygiene.

Text-Books.—Allen's Civics and Health; Ritchie's Primer of Sanitation.

Daily, from 4:30 to 5:30. Professor Lambeth. Rotunda, Room 3.

Certificate Credit.—Summer School Professional Certificate—Hygiene
I; Professional Grammar Grades Certificate—Hygiene I; Professional
Primary Grades Certificate—Hygiene I.