HYGIENE OF WRESTLING MATS

Abstract

facts in a form to put even a county seat or county on the same basis for purposes of statistical comparison of results as the metropolis of a state or the state itself. Lack of use by health officers of standard tables of mortality and morbidity where consideration is given to race, sex and age as well as the cause of sickness and death, and absence of plan and method are the primary reasons why personnel and equipment are not established in the health office to make the annual report and the current epidemiological study of the community possible. The progress which has followed the conscientious application of science to the protection of health demands as accurate, uniform and continuous a performance in the laboratory of statistics as has from the beginning characterized the work of the diagnostic laboratories of health departments. Such a standard has not yet been attained. The power of authority and professional opinion latent within these two sections of Public Health Administration and Vital Statistics, if applied with courage, could effect material improvement in the quality of morbidity and mortality reports.