Excerpt from A General Outline and Syllabus on Hygiene This general outline and syllabus on general, individual, group, and intergroup hygiene has been issued for the assistance of those educational institutions that are cooperating with the United States Interdepartmental Social Hygiene Board for the purpose of discovering and developing more effective educational measures in (be prevention of venereal diseases. Each of these institutions is under obligation to organize, or complete the organization of,"a department of hygiene, the curriculum of which shall include courses and conferences in informational hygiene, and courses, conferences, and training in the applications of hygiene, emphasizing, with appropriate and due proportion and with proper tact and persistency, the serious importance of venereal diseases, their causes, carriers, and prevention, and emphasizing at the same time the other important facts and applications of general hygiene, individual hygiene, group hygiene. and intergroup hygiene. Each of these institutions will develop its own programs and syllabi for the several divisions of activity covered by its department of hygiene in accordance with its agreement with the board. No institution is under obligation to use this particular syllabus for its courses in general, individual, group, and intergroup hygiene. Each of these departments of hygiene will develop its own more detailed presentation of these subjects, using the plan and the subject organization of this syllabus, if such usage seems wise. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.