POPULAR EDUCATION IN PUBLIC HEALTH. By W. Allen Daley and
Hester Viney. (Lewis. Os.)—It must be premised that this valuable little work is intended as a text-book for teachers, and therefore, unfor- tunately, it is not in language and arrangement suited to the general reader. This is a pity, because, as the authors well realize, the continuation of public health work depends on the funds which are at the disposal of the Ministry of Health, and the amount of these funds ultimately depends upon public opinion, that is, upon the opinion of the voter in the street. Anyone, however, who has the cause of national health at heart will be interested in the important inforthation contained in this book, and in some very clear thinking. Advice to district nurses as to their attitude towards, birth-control, accounts of school clinics and child welfare centres, health lessons for adolescents, are all fully dealt with. A much-felt need would be supplied if these authors would write another' book for the information of the public, written with the simplicity of language which they reeont mend to health visitors, but themselves fail to practise, giving an exact account of what is being done by the Ministry of Health with regard to preventive medicine.
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