adaches? 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 constitutes 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 c