Two About Health: Recommended

Two new books on health matters —“Preparing for Motherhood” and “Personal and Community Health”■—although written for an Aus tralian audience, should nonetheless be of value in parts of the South Pacific where many young wives still live on outstations; and where the authorities still face public health problems that are overwhelmingly large.

DR. CLAIR ISBISTER is honorary paediatrician at Sydney’s Royal North Shore Hospital and is already well known in Australia for her writings on infant and maternal wel fare. Preparing for Motherhood is precisely what she says it is—a com mon-sense approach to parenthood that could be read by both prospec tive mother and father with ill effects on neither. A comforting sort of book for the out-station wife to have on her bookshelf.

Personal and Community Health by R. E. Murray and G. C. Scott is also more or less as the title indicates.

It was specifically written for student

nurses in Australia but it should be of equal value in areas of the Pacific where public health problems are much more widespread than in the Commonwealth.

The authors (both lecturers in pre ventive medicine at Sydney Univer sity) cover such subjects as infectious disease, water supply, disposal of waste, food handling, housing and nu trition. On the more personal side they have something to say about hygiene, prevention of accidents and

mental health.

JT.

(Preparing For Motherhood,

15/-; Personal And Community

HEALTH, 27/6. Both published by Angus and Robertson Ltd.).