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...sending down from the Hygiene Building his first annual report of the college health department, Dr. Bock has officially closed the pages of one of the most remarkable chapters of Harvard medical annals. Taking over the reins at a time when the old guard brought the department to the shocking state of ineptitude that culminated in the wild-fire German measles epidemic in the spring of 1935, the new regime has brought the organization back to hitherto unscaled heights of competence and efficiency...
...commenting on the situation, Dr. Bock has called attention to the lightness of the attack and the quick recovery of those who suffered. While the burden of suspicion falls on veal and ice-cream served in the Union, the lack of definite bacteriological evidence make any attempt to fix the blame extremely difficult. Thus, with the University doing all in its power to protect the food from contaminating influences, all the student can do when the plague strikes is to screw his courage to the sticking place and hope it strikes somebody else...
...Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, called in Wilson G. Smillie, professor of Public Health at the Medical School to tract down the source of the trouble. Professor Smillie is a noted authority on such forms of food poisoning and with several assistants went over the items on the Freshman menu which might have caused illness...
Suspicion finally centered on ice cream served Monday night. This was the only dish eaten by all those who became sick. Ice cream comes in units containing about 150 servings and, according to Dr. Bock, if the ice cream was slightly contaminated between a half and a third of those eating it would be expected to get sick. About one out of two people are immune to such forms of poisoning...
...additions and improvements this fall have been made possible by the increased funds available to the Hygiene Department through the new $20 fee. This fee was decided upon last spring on the advice of Dr. Bock. More students last year and for several years past made it necessary to increase the facilities offered and the University felt unable to and money to make the possible. After some discussion it was announced that since something had to the done to put the Department as a paying basis immediately the fee would have to be doubled...