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Author MacDougall, Heather Anne.

Title Activists and advocates : Toronto's Health Department, 1883-1983 / Heather MacDougall
Published Toronto : Dundurn Press, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (334 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter One: Activists and Advocates: The Pioneers, 1883-1929; Chapter Two: Professionalizing Public Health: The Medical Bureaucrats; Chapter Three: Forging A Professional Identity: Public Health Inspection and Public Health Nursing; Chapter Four: Improving the Quality of City Life: The Sanitation Division; Chapter Five: From Producer to Consumer: Protecting Toronto's Food Supply; Chapter Six: Safeguarding Human Life: Fighting Smallpox and Tuberculosis; Chapter Seven: Discovery and Application: The Triumph of Prevention
Summary For more than a century, Toronto's Health Department has served as a model of evolving municipal public health services in Canada and beyond. From horse manure to hippies and small pox to AIDS, the Department's staff have established and maintained standards of environmental cleanliness and communicable disease control procedures that have made the city a healthy place to live. This centennial history anlyzes the complex interaction of politics, patronage and professional aspirations which determine the success or failure of specific policies and programs. As such, it fills a long neglected g
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-325) and index
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Subject Toronto (Ont.). Department of Public Health -- History
SUBJECT Toronto (Ont.) Department of Public Health
Toronto (Ont.). Department of Public Health fast
Toronto Toronto Public Health Department gnd
Subject Community health services -- Canada -- History
Public health -- Ontario -- Toronto
Public health -- Ontario -- Toronto -- History
Government Agencies -- history
Public Health -- history
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Community health services
Public health
SUBJECT Ontario
Subject Canada
Ontario -- Toronto
Genre/Form Electronic books
e-books.
History
Livres numériques.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781554880652
1554880653
1550020722
9781550020724
9781459713826
1459713826