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
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-325) and index