Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...chief fear of the educational forces now gathered at the Capital seems to be not so much that the bill will fail to gain attention as that it will be met by a proposal to combine the Department of Education with the Public Health Service. It is considered that each Department will operate more efficiently if independent, and in particular that the energies of the Department of Education will be wasted if they have to be subordinated to the purposes of the Health Service...
...words "humanitarian" and "welfare" may be 'disquieting to those who do not favor cooperation with the Health Service, but the President's willingness for a Department will encourage many who now watch the new Congress closely and anxiously...
...American Birth Control League, Mrs. Sanger's organization. The clinic has been running since Jan. 1, 1923, and has advised 900 women gratis, during that period. It is in charge of Dr. Dorothy Bocker, formerly director of maternity and infant hygiene with the Georgia State Board of Health, surgeon of the U. S. Public Health Service, a graduate of Long Island College Hospital Medical College and an instructor in various universities. The experiment has been investigated by hundreds of social workers and physicians, and has proved its value, according to Mrs. Sanger. She appealed for $15,000 to extend...
...multiplication of the unfit or the unfortunate. Public clinics in the Netherlands and other countries, operating without Government opposition, have apparently had beneficial effect. Most advocates of birth control do not wish to remove all restrictions, but simply to make it legal for properly qualified persons, as physicians, public health officers or nurses, to give information to all married persons who desire...
Medically, contraceptive methods are far from perfect. There is no known infallible means except complete abstinence from sex relations. But considerable research has been done which would be stimulated if the illegal aspect were removed. Improved methods may be looked for, and some commonly used, which are injurious to health, could be reduced. Likewise, abortions, estimated (though of course no reliable statistics are possible) at from 500,000 to 2,000,000 yearly in the U. S. would be reduced if preventive methods were more freely available...