American Red Cross Text-Book on Home Hygiene and Care of the Sick Part 24

VIII.

1. Name some of the most obvious symptoms of sickness.

2. Name some symptoms that would lead you to take a patient to a doctor; to send for a doctor; to send for a doctor in haste.

3. Name some symptoms that are dangerous to neglect even though the patient feels fairly well.

4. What are some of the symptoms of physical defects in children?

Name some conditions that are frequently caused by unremedied defects.

5. Name some diseases commonly ushered in by symptoms resembling those of a cold in the head.

6. What symptoms would lead you to isolate a patient?

7. Give as many ill.u.s.trations as you can of the part played by good and bad habits in determining health and sickness.

IX.

1. How would you dress a cut? a burn? a sprain?

2. What would you do for a person suffering from colic? nausea?

diarrha? chill?

3. What are the symptoms of shock? heat stroke? heat prostration?

What treatment would you give in each case?

4. What would you do for a fainting person? for a person suffering from nose bleed? from earache? from a cinder in the eye?

5. What course of action would you advise for a person troubled with sleeplessness? frequent headaches? excessive irritability?

unusual depression of spirits? unfounded suspicions of other persons' motives? a tendency to have the feelings hurt easily?

inability to control the emotions?

X.

1. Why is it better to prevent sickness than to cure it?

2. Name the essentials of good hygienic conditions for babies, for children, for grown people, for the aged.

3. How much of the sickness in the United States is preventable?

4. If part of the sickness is preventable, why is it not prevented?

5. What const.i.tutes adequate care of the sick?

6. What proportion of the young men in your community who were drafted have been rejected for physical disability? How many were rejected for disabilities that might have been prevented?

XI. (Answers to the following questions can generally be obtained from local health officers.)

1. What are the duties and powers of your local board of health?

2. How much did your city or town spend per person last year on health protection? How does this amount compare with the amount spent per person for police protection? for fire protection?

3. Who inspects the water supply in your town? the milk supply? the food supply?

4. In your city, what was the number of deaths per 100,000 of the population from tuberculosis each year for the last five years?

from typhoid fever?

5. Is there a tuberculosis sanitarium in your city or county? Are nurses employed to supervise tuberculosis patients who remain at home?

6. What provision does your community make for patients suffering from other communicable diseases?

7. What measures are taken in your community to instruct school children in matters of health? to instruct grown persons?

8. How does your community provide medical and nursing care for persons unable to pay part or all of the cost of such service?

XII. Explain why the following common beliefs are erroneous or unfounded:

1. That a damp cellar causes diphtheria.

2. That night air is harmful.

3. That one should "stuff a cold" and "starve a fever."

4. That almost everyone needs a tonic in the spring.

5. That the health of one's family would be endangered if a tuberculosis hospital were placed on the next block.

6. That clearing up the back yard will protect the children of a family from infantile paralysis.

7. That odorless and tasteless water is necessarily free from harmful germs.

8. That all children should have the children's diseases, and have them as early as possible.

9. That boils are a benefit to the system by removing impurities from the blood.

10. That tomatoes cause cancer.

11. That consumption is inherited.

12. That dirt breeds disease.

13. That diseases come up drains.

14. That if a teaspoonful of medicine does you good, a tablespoonful will do you more good.

15. That instinct teaches a mother how to care for her baby.

16. That low heeled shoes, though suitable for boys and men, cause broken arches in women and girls.