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Another impediment is the law of property in corpses. They belong to the next of kin or friendship. When Dr. Green applied to San Francisco's Health Commissioner Jacob Casson Geiger and Coroner Thomas Byers Woods Leland for cooperation, they reminded him that peeling a cornea from a body was precisely like performing an autopsy: it requires written permission of the corpse's owners...
...private settlement in which the pomps of diplomacy were not involved. Mr. Sayre talked it over with Ambassador Saito at the Japanese Embassy. Dr. Murchison proceeded to organize a committee. At high noon the day before Christmas, President Murchison, Manufacturers Harry Bailey of New York, Donald Comer of Alabama, Casson Callaway of Georgia and Cotton's Editor Bob Philip sailed from San Francisco for Japan...
...Francisco's Opera House one evening last week City Health Director Jacob Casson Geiger was summoned to a telephone, informed that one Albert Perry, 87, had just died of arsenic poisoning. That night Albert Perry's daughter Bessie, 53, also died. Next morning authorities found arsenic and sodium fluoride in the family's baking soda, traced the soda to a cut-rate department store run by one Joseph Rosenthal. Twenty-one other soda-users were discovered ill. Taking to the radio, Director Geiger warned San Franciscans to eat no more of the Rosenthal soda...
Neighborly and helpful if a bit blatant seemed the San Francisco Public Health Office when the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystic Shrine met there last summer. Tippling Shriners were invited to have their liquor tested free of charge. The invitation came from Dr. Jacob Casson Geiger, the bald, beak-nosed Director of Public Health at whose request a survey of poison cases was later made which resulted in the successful use last fortnight of methylene blue, a dye common in the textile industry, as antidote for cyanide of potassium (TIME...
...East seems more affected than the West. San Francisco's Health Officer Jacob Casson Geiger knew of very few cases. At the University of Missouri there were none; students are being instructed in protecting themselves. Health Commissioner Herman Neils Bundesen of Chicago thought that his community had only the usual number of cases, not enough for alarm. New York City's worst centre seems to be the Greenwich Village neighborhood. Vacationists have imported many cases from Europe. Partially isolated communities, like colleges, have been able to eradicate the disease when it appeared. At Smith College, Dr. Anna Root...