Word: davision
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thomas R. A. Davis came to Harvard the hard way.
Davis arrived at the Harvard School of Public Health two months late. He should have been fined $10 for late registration, but wasn't. Instead the tardy student was greeted dockside by the dean of the Public Health School, Brig. Gen. James S. Simmons, and later was elected president of...
All honor was justified. Besides safely sailing 10,000 miles of ocean, Davis has accomplished these things: survived the worst gale to hit New Zealand waters in 30 years; become the first person ever to sail across the Pacific from New Zealand to Peru in mid-winter; and partly refuted...
Like most Polynesians, the Cook Islanders have a high tuberculosis rate, but Dr. Davis has found that they seem to have developed a resistance like that of Europeans: they form scar tissue and recover. They also have hookworm, and filariasis (the "mumu" of South Pacific G.I.s), which may reach the...
Dr. Davis has found his maternal ancestors a big help in persuading the islanders to stop spitting and defecating anywhere & everywhere. He has fitted sanitary habits into the complex Polynesian social code. But the people's health, he believes, is inseparably bound up with education and economics. So, while...