Word: health
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...basis. The only other School of Tropical Medicine for civilians is that of Tulane University, New Orleans, and it seems to your committee highly desirable that the School be maintained. The tropics are steadily increasing in economic importance, and in their development by the white man the factor of health is far from the least. The building of the Panama Canal was conditioned on the mastery of yellow fever and malaria. As evidence of the realization of the importance of modern medicine, we may mention that Professor Strong was two years ago appointed director of laboratories to the United Fruit...
...holders an annual free physical examination; so, also, does a group of other life insurance companies. One of these, the Metropolitan, has many industrial risks. The holders of such are visited by nurses employed by the company in order to prevent sickness, and leaflets dealing with the preservation of health are furnished all policy holders. The Eastman Kodak Company has in its employ a trained bacteriologist, having found that some of the films were ruined, as it turned out, by the growth of low forms of life...
...Moreover, every one who goes to these Camps will find that it is the best use of part of his summer that he can make. He will be a greater gainer in health, widened interests, acquaintance, pleasant experiences, and all other ways, than can possibly be achieved in any other use of his vacation time...
...obtained. Applicants for the naval cruise will be obliged to go to 146 Tremont street, Boston, on any week day from 10 until 4 o'clock, in order to enroll and take the usual preliminary physical examination. This test will not be rigorous and any man with reasonably good health should be able to pass. Those with bad eyes will be acceptable, providing they have the proper glasses...
Professor George Chandler Whipple, a member of the council of the present State Department of Health, describes the functions of the department in his book, "State Sanitation: A Review of the Work of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, 1869-1914." The annual reports of the board, issued regularly for more than fifty years, and its many special reports cover almost every phase of sanitation and public-health activity...