Excerpt from A d104book of Simple Nursing Procedure, for Use in High Schools, Together With Instructions for First Aid in Emergencies Every woman should have some knowledge of the methods used in caring for the sick and of the first-aid treatment required in common emergencies and, if these essentials are not taught in the schools, the great majority of women will never know them. Many people say, "I do not believe in so much talk about health, it was not considered necessary when I was young," and so forth, but it is to be appreciated that one third of the seemingly healthy men who applied for military duty during the last war (who were reared under the present regime) were turned down because of physical disability, and a most deplorable condition among school children is indicated by the following statistics, recently collected from official sources and made public by Dr. Wood: "At least 1 per cent. - 200,000 - of the 20,000,000 school children in the United States, are mentally defective. "Over 1 percent. - 250,000 at least - of the children are handicapped by organic heart disease. "At least 5 percent. - 1,000,000 - have now or have had tuberculosis. 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."