Calcutta University Readership Lectures. Public Health as a Social Service

Thu social historian inter- jects a third period in the break-up of ancient civilization with the deti-ne of the Roman Empire and the rise of mediaevall culture extending from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution in the middle of the 18th century. [...] It is on the verge of becoming 2-1368B"10 PUBLIC IIEALTII AS A SOCIAL SERVICE the art and practice of the collective will of society to procure the fullest potentialities of life from the application of knowledge of the natural sciences through the administrative channels of social services. [...] The four secondary causes of the lag are absence of a public opinion educated in the maintenance of their own health and the prevention of disease ; inadequate economic . considerations in planning of administration ; lack of sound administrative procedures based upon the results of scientific investigation ; and, finally, the lack of personnel trained in community application of the method- ology [...] his in turn depends on the dynamics of health education in the schools and the extent it is related to the actualities of daily life. " The importance of the underlying principle is re-emphasised in the follow- ing quotations from the Report of the Consultatiye Committee of the Board of Education of England (1931) : " We desire to see the child an active agent in his early schooling, making his ap [...] The four Other causes of the lag arc : the absence of a public opinion educated in the maintenance of health and the prevention of disease ; inadequate eco- nomic consideration in planning of administration ; the lack of adherence to six essential administrative principles ; and finally, the absence of personnel trained in community application of the methodo- logy resulting from scientific invest