Show WHAT IS PUBLIC HEALTH public health is the science and art of pie preventing venting disease and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community ef efforts f orts for the sanitation of the environment the cot control of community infections the education of the individual in the principles of personal hygiene the organization of medical and nursing cursina services fori for the early diagnosis arid and preventive I 1 treatment of disease ll li sease and the development of social machinery which will insure to every individual a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health dr C E A winslow professor of public health yale university public health Is the science and ar art t of preventing disease prolonging life and promoting physical ant ana mental effi efficiency clency through organized community effort dr M J rosenau former professor of public health harvard university it is to be emphasized that public I 1 health service has to do with the promotion of positive health and the prevention nf if disease in all of their various aspects but not with the treatment of di disease S ea S e the entire field of medical care and corrective procedure is and properly should be the province of the practicing physician and dentist in utah the care of the indigent sick is the responsibility of the respective spec tive counties so declared by law that is not a public health activity but definitely one of remedial medicine the law further provides that the board of county commissioners of each county shall appoint a suitable graduate of medicine to be known as the county physician whose duty it Ls Is to render these services the establishment of local boards of health the appointment of local health officers and the local administration of public health are provided for in other sections of the alie statutory law arid and are entirely independent dependent of the provisions tor for and the administration of medical relief ellef VERLE BAKER county nurse |