Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this field, will be given by Professor Charles H. Keene, of the University of Buffalo, who will be Visiting Lecturer in the Graduate School of Education during the second half year, it was announced yesterday by the University office. Dr. Keene was formerly Director of the Bureau of Health Education for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania...
Spattering flurries of lead flying through city streets in war-time would constitute an obvious menace to public health. But what if in peacetime city streets were filled with clouds of lead, not bullets, but fine powdery particles mixed in with the whirling gutter-dust, lead deposited by the exhaust-pipes of motors burning gasoline treated with tetraethyl lead (1:1,500) to eliminate motor "knocking"? Would that constitute a health menace...
Some months ago, when five handlers of tetraethyl lead employed by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey, went raving mad and died in straitjackets (TIME, Nov. 10, 1924, SCIENCE), the health menace in manufacturing "ethyl gasoline" was recognized. The plant was shut down; the sale of the new gasoline was discontinued. Health authorities investigated also the dangers of handling the fuel and the dangers of encountering exhaust fumes from motors...
...scientists at Yale, Harvard and Columbia were far from satisfied. "Inconclusive, premature," they called the Pittsburgh tests (TIME, May 11). So U. S. Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming called a conference of manufacturers, scientists and health officers, the sense of which was that a thoroughgoing reinvestigation should be made. Dr. Gumming appointed a committee: Professor W. H. Howell of Johns Hopkins, chairman, and Drs. Julius Stieglitz (University of Chicago), Reid Hunt and David L. Edsall (Harvard University), C.E. A. Winslow (Yale University), W. S. Leathers (Vanderbilt University) and Albert J. Chesley (Minneapolis...
Having no authority to set down or enforce regulations for distributing and handling gasoline, Surgeon General Gumming announced that ha would call a conference of health officials from all the States. Pending regulations, the Ethyl Gasoline Co., chief manufacturer of the new fuel, promised to cooperate upon resuming its sales...