Word: anemia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Curtis, Vice President of the Bank of America, and Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, Medical Director of the Life Extension Institute, agree that the banking institutions of Wall Street are breeding-places for tuberculosis, anemia and other disease conditions among their women employees. There is not a bank in the "Street" that is not supporting one or more tuberculous employees in hospitals or sanitariums, says Mr. Curtis. The rapid, artificial, neurasthenic life; the poor physical standards of clerical workers; unhygienic clothes; the feminist cigarette are among the culprits blamed for these conditions. The Federal Reserve Bank has an efficient medical department...