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Delta Omega Classics

Delta Omega classics are important texts, which have been deemed public health classics by the national council. They are generally out of print, or not widely available in libraries. Delta Omega has sponsored the reprinting of many of these classics on a limited basis. These documents can be retrieved off this website and viewed through Acrobat Reader (free software).
	Fifth Annual meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics roundtable discussion on prematurity. 1936. Introduction by Hamisu M. Salihu, MD, PhD, University of South Florida College of Public Health. (Supplement: Excerpt from 1919 article by Arvo Ylppö)
	The Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever, 1843, by Oliver Wendell Holmes
	Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, 1842, by Edwin Chadwick
	State of Public Health Work by Charles V. Chapin, M.D., 1915 PART 2
	State of Public Health Work by Charles V. Chapin, M.D., 1915 PART 1
	Observations made during the Epidemic of Measles on the Faroe Islands in the Year 1846, Peter Ludwig Panum, 1940
	The Aetiology of Tuberculosis, Robert Koch, 1882 Introduction by: Rotrease Regan-Yates, MPH and Donald Morisky, ScD, MSPH, ScM
	Report Of the Sanitary Commission of Massachusetts 1850, Lemuel Shattuck, 1850 Introduction by:Larry J. Gordon, MS, MPH
	On the Mode of Communication of Cholera, John Snow, MD, 1836 Introduction by: Ralph R. Frerichs, DVM, DrPH
	An Essay Concerning the Cause of the Endemial Colic of Devonshire, George Baker, 1767
	The People's Misery: Mother of Diseases, Johann Peter Frank, 1790
	Notes on Nursing, Florence Nightengale, 1860
	Typhoid Fever, William Budd, MD, 1874
	The Mosquito Hypothetically Considered as an Agent in the Transmission of Yellow Fever Poison, Carlos Juan Finlay, 1881
	Summary chapters from: The Costs of Medical Care, IS Falk, C. Rufus Rorem, Martha D. Ring, 1933
	Annotated Legislative History of Maternal and Child Health Introduction by: Mary D. Peoples-Sheps, MS, DrPH, and Greg R. Alexander, RS, MPH, ScD

Other Delta Omega Documents: The Welch-Rose Report: A Public Health Classic History of Delta Omega by Gerald Shorb
Delta Omega Sponsored Publications: Public Health Reports: Historical Collection 1878-2005

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