Summer
2005 (Vol. 86, No. 2)
Table of Contents

FEATURE ARTICLES:
Special issue on history of public health
Salubrious or Unsanitary
Iowa? The Struggle for the Public’s Health
by Ginalie Swaim
Instructing the
Masses: The Development of Iowa’s Health Department
by Ronald D. Eckoff
Iowa Physicians
Ponder the Germ Theory
by Matt Schaefer
Deadly Diphtheria
and Walter Bierring
by Susan C. Lawrence
Battling Smallpox:
State and Local Boards of Health
by Philip L. Frana
Lorenzo Coffin
and Railroad Safety
by Tim Lane
Tracking Down Disease:
The University of Iowa Hygienic Laboratory
by Kathy Fait
Tuberculosis: The
White Plague in Iowa
by Ginalie Swaim
Healthy Homes:
Mothers, Children, and Nurses
by Ginalie Swaim
War Opens Up VD
Discussion
by Ginalie Swaim
The Core of Public
Health: Vital Records and Statistics
by Ronald D. Eckoff
People and Pigs:
Iowa’s Role in 20th-Century Influenza History
by Russell W. Currier
Nothing Much You
Can Do: Polio in Iowa
by Ginalie Swaim
Fluoridation in
Iowa
by William C. Maurer
The Evolving Case
against Smoking: Lapse of Morals to Hazard to Health
by Ronald D. Eckoff
Saint Patterson
and his Duck Soup
by Tim Lane
Iowa: A Place to
Grow ...Healthy
by Tim Lane
Public Health in
the Past 30 Years
by Louise Lex
DEPARTMENTS:
Front Porch:
Evidence of public health history is scattered throughout our everyday lives.
One in a Million:
World-famous bacteriologist Robert Koch eludes reporters and visits Iowa.
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