Word: controls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Free Tests Sirs: In TIME, Feb. 15, under the heading "Great Pox," Nevada, together with three other States, is blacklisted for not affording free laboratory examinations to physicians in the diagnosis of syphilis and gonorrhea. To my personal knowledge our State Laboratory, which is under the control of the State University, has extended such service for the past 14 years and I understand, from reliable sources, since 1909. Last year 4,633 blood tests for syphilis and 1,130 examinations for gonorrhea were performed free of charge for the physicians of this State...
Irrespective* of any previous survey these figures, vouched for by the Director of the Laboratory and local members of the State Board of Health tell their own story. At the present time State legislation is pending for the diagnosis, treatment and control of venereal diseases...
...That there was no truth in the President's charge that the Courts prevented flood control. For generations Congress has built flood control works without interference. The TVA decision to which the President referred, he admitted in press conference, was an injunction controlling only TVA's power activities, did not interrupt work on its dams. Said Raymond Moley: "I should welcome the opportunity to speak to the man of whom we heard Thursday evening, to the man who, in the sweat of his brow, piles sand bags on the levee at Cairo. And if I spoke...
...Were treated by the Bishop of London to a speech in praise of such high-power inducements to begetting as Italy's Grand Fascist Council adopted last week and in denunciation of "miserable propaganda for birth control...
Last week when the Chronicle inaugurated Mrs. O'Connor's bureau, every bigwig from Mayor Angelo J. Rossi down had a good word for her as she tackled her first day's work: Advised a jobless old woman how to find a home, helped a mother control a wayward son, offered suggestions to aid a man with a brother in San Quentin, rescued the residents of a trailer camp from ousting by health officials. Starting the other half of her job, Columnist O'Connor wrote...