Monthly Bulletin - League of Red Cross Societies, Volume 2

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League of Red Cross Societies., 1920 - Red Cross and Red Crescent

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Page 112 - Amendments to this Covenant will take effect when ratified by the Members of the League whose Representatives compose the Council and by a majority...
Page 162 - The Members of the League agree to encourage and promote the establishment and co-operation of duly authorized voluntary national Red Cross organizations having as purposes the improvement of health, the prevention of disease and the mitigation of suffering throughout the world.
Page 362 - Public health is the science and the art of preventing disease, prolonging life, and promoting physical health and efficiency through organized community efforts for the sanitation of the environment, the control of community infections, the education of the individual in principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of the social machinery which will ensure to every individual in the...
Page 362 - ... principles of personal hygiene, the organization of medical and nursing service for the early diagnosis and preventive treatment of disease, and the development of the social machinery which will ensure to every individual a standard of living adequate for the maintenance of health ; organizing these benefits in such fashion as to enable every citizen to realize his birthright of health and longevity.
Page 482 - ... (2) To promote the welfare of mankind by furnishing a medium for bringing within the reach of all the peoples the benefits to be derived from present known facts and new contributions to science and medical knowledge and their application. (3) To furnish a medium for coordinating relief work in case of great national or international calamities.
Page 44 - Under the auspices of the Public Health Committee of the New York Academy of Medicine a study was made of the dispensaries of New York City.
Page 104 - What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe, Effeminately vanquished?
Page 286 - 21 Macmillan t British Red cross soc. Reports by the joint war committee and the joint war finance committee of the British Red cross society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem...
Page 567 - Unless climatic conditions render heating superfluous, the accommodation intended for workers' families, groups of workers, or individual workers, should contain rooms which can be heated. (b) Accommodation intended for groups of workers shall provide a separate bed for" each worker, shall afford facilities for ensuring personal cleanliness, and shall provide for the separation of the sexes. In the case of families, adequate provision shall be made for the children. (c) Stables, co(whouses and open...
Page 464 - These things were done in part by the Foundation but chiefly through its departmental agencies — the International Health Board, the China Medical Board, and the Division of Medical Education.

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