ABSTRACT
In a study of community health it is necessary to limit attention to matters which are common to the general community, and which can be dealt with best by organized community effort, or by other public action. The United States government serves community health through many agencies. Numerous nation-wide organizations are concerned with community health, among them the American Public Health Association, the American Red Cross, the American Social Hygiene Association, and the American Automobile Association. Several large foundations have made studies of community health, or have helped to finance community health projects, and have published books and bulletins on the subject. Most discussions of community health have in mind a citified, commercialized America, from which old-fashioned neighborliness has for the most part disappeared. A community might well have a storage place for things used occasionally in sickness, such as a wheeled chair, bedpans, crutches, a sheepskin with the wool on it for bedridden persons, and a sick-bed table.
