Word: clinics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sets of teeth belonging to children whose parents were either too ill-informed or poverty-stricken to send them to a dentist. A similar function was performed by the Medical School Committee, which has established a program of physical exams in the settlement houses and will set up a clinic in Dorcester House this year...
...quarters at 8 Holyoke Street, was the result of a highly successful decade (their only one) following the turn of the century. E. M. Wheelwright '76, one of the founders, was selected as architect, and the convenient site half-way between the Hygiene Building and the Psychological Clinic was chosen. The outside was designed in the style of 16th century Holland, and the inside in the style of the "Blucbcard's Palace" on the Revere Beach midway. It is triangular, consisting of three walls and a standpipe. A brass ibis has been perched on the latter almost without interruption since...
...juke-joint dames and dance-hall hostesses gather at No. 513½ Dolorosa St., in San Antonio, Tex. They are girls who entertain many of the 30,000 soldiers at nearby Fort Sam Houston and Randolph Field. But no bawdy house is No. 513½: it is a free clinic where a group of experts are trying a practical new solution for the old problem of venereal disease and the army. Last week an enterprising reporter from the New York Daily News named Carl Warren wrote of the doings on Dolorosa Street...
Instead of running the girls out of town, San Antonio officials ask to see their health papers, pack them off to the clinic. The system is vastly different from the old European routine of slipshod examinations and yellow passports: in San Antonio the girls are given modern treatment. On the second floor they fill out records telling a few facts about their customers. Then they are given a blood test. If infected, they are treated at once to make the diseases non-catching. For gonorrhea, they get sulfathiazole tablets; for syphilis, slow injections of neoarsphenamine and bismuth. Even...
Founder of the clinic is young Chemist Frank Bickenheuser, one of the original researchers on the preventive oil. To try it out, he went to San Antonio last spring, spent some of his own money, wangled funds from prominent citizens, drugs from the State Health Department. No one protested, for the townspeople were frightened by soaring venereal-disease rates in other towns close to army camps.* Even San Antonio clergymen have not objected to the plan. Most grateful are the girls. Recently some of them chipped in, tried to give Chemist Bickenheuser a donation for his clinic. He turned...