Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...last week, but not for long. They are workers. Smiling, keen little King Prajadhipok puts all his brothers to work. Between them they divide up nearly all government offices. The prince whose small body was last week anointed for the grave had most efficiently conducted the Siamese Ministry of Health before he took up medical studies. Only recently the king on a visit to princes in northern rural Siam had admonished his relatives as follows...
Through the cooperation of the Health Department of the Boston Public Schools, an assistant supervisor is assigned to aid in the choice of a group of children from four to six years of age, who can be followed from year to year until about the age of twelve, it is expected. This work is being undertaken from two points of view, and dental and pediatric supervision is handled by the Departments of Hygiene and Operative Dentistry...
From the research point of view, complete family conditions, both past and present are being tabulated. In the medical examination, information is obtained regarding the mother's health during pregnancy, and as detailed an account as possible of her diet during that period is made. The rate of development of the child and the diseases he has experienced are recorded. The story of the nursing diet of the child is obtained, and the diet and habits subsequent are recorded as a means of determining the adequacy of the nutritional elements present. The physical examination gives information on the state...
...England & Wales 3.8; Scotland 5.8; Germany 5.3; Italy 2.7; Scandinavian countries 2.6; Holland 2.3 (the lowest). Of U. S. maternal deaths, 65% are due to blood-poisoning contracted at the time of delivery or immediately after. Other mortal causes include lack of prenatal care. poor home conditions, general ill-health. Dr. Edward Joseph Hill of Newark, N. J.. tried to introduce the claim of Dean Henry Hurd Rusby of Columbia's Department of Pharmacy that rotten ergot causes many of these deaths (TIME, July 22). The American Association of Obstetricians, Gynecologists & Abdominal Surgeons (formal name of the Memphis...
...state government, public finance, and public utilities, will open to the students of the new School courses which bear upon city planning or carry further in some specific direction the education of each student according to his particular needs. The Faculties of engineering, education, law, the School of Public Health, the Graduate School of Business Administration, and, of course, the Schools of Architecture and of Landscape Architecture, offer courses which will contribute to the work of the new School...