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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...twelfth annual championship meeting of the Interscholastic Athletic Association was held yesterday afternoon on Holmes Field under the auspices of the Harvard Athletic Association. Owing to the heavy shower that began after the first trial of the 220-yards hurdles, six events had to be postponed until Monday, June...
...reply to yours of May 26, asking information as to the existence of malaria in the region about the Soldiers Field;- the Board examined the territory, in which the Field is situated, in 1893, and found the following conditions, as reported by the inspector who made the examination. The only place in the neighborhood where any cases were known to have occurred, was at Barry's Corner, where it was stated that there had been six cases in the course of three years. With reference to the Soldiers Field itself I quote the inspector's words...
...Some forty-five men were employed here trenching the field to improve it for the athletic purposes of Harvard College. The foreman reported that no illness had occurred among the men under him. The next district includes that part of Brighton near the abattoir and Faneuil Station. On the whole, this was very free from illness. The abattoir men (upward of a hundred in number) were reported as exceptionally healthy. Two cases, both imported, were found near Faneuil Station among workmen. Auburndale appeared to be responsible for them, as the men lived there. Moreover, as farther down the river...
During the past two years, in seeking for the causes of football defeats, Harvard men have sometimes said that, as a result of the damp, so-called unhealthy condition of Soldiers Field, the teams have bee in poor physical shape for the important games. For the past year or more there has been a good deal written and said about the matter, although very few have had any definite knowledge of the health conditions of the field. As a natural result, many exaggerated and false stories have found their way into the newspapers and unfortunately the belief has gained ground...
...means of setting right whatever false impressions there may be in regard to the sanitary conditions of the field, the communication from the State Board of Health should do a great deal of good, especially among the graduates and others who have not been in a position to know the true state of affairs. It will give everyone confidence in the future usefulness of Soldiers Field; and, when the proposed improvements are completed and all the teams will have to go down there, the University can feel assured that they will practice under just as good conditions of health...