Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Statistics compiled by Dr. Alfred Worcester, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene show that the health of students during the Reading Periods is greater than that during the remainder of the college year...
...sort of feelings inspired against an enemy, call them hatred or not as you will, are not only local but are remembered for a relatively short period. Anything which helps to maintain such feelings beyond the time that they are needed for the preservation of unity and national health may rightly be considered to jeopardize the cause of permanent peace. And indeed there would seem to be some ground for the opinion that there is an anomaly in decorating a permanent collection of the sum total of human intellectual progress with memorials to that spirit which in all ages...
...Derby. Always in England the Derby vies in importance with any political event. This year the election was almost forgotten with 70 million dollars wagered on the race; with Cragadour, the favorite, sick of a stomach trouble and daily bulletins being issued on the state of his health; with the sudden scratching of the second favorite, Midlothian, because of the death of his owner, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of Rosebery, last of the Great Victorians and the man who succeeded Gladstone as Prime Minister...
Protagonists of unrestricted sex education gave Mrs. Dennett a mass meeting in Manhattan. Dr. Edward Loughborough Keyes, president of the American Social Hygiene Association, presided. Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson of the New York Academy of Medicine, energetic in maternal health work, resolved that some permanent agency be formed to study and act on sex education, sex literature. The mass meeting approved unanimously, except for Canon William Sheafe Chase of Christ Church, Brooklyn. He, who had abetted the conviction of Mrs. Dennett, sat in the gallery silent, watchful, preparing to continue his denunciation in debate and lecture...
...25th annual meeting of the National Tuberculosis Association at Atlantic City last week provided a summary of the U. S. Tuberculosis situation. Estimated number of people infected: 900,000 cases. Sanatorium beds existing for their care: 67,270. Result: doctors, nurses, public health officials and the N. T. A. must get after cases roaming at large. Between 3% and 4% of children have childhood tuberculosis. Half of those children overcome their infection (by rest, good food, outdoor life). The other half develop true pulmonary tuberculosis (the type that kills) when they become adolescents. About the same number of boys...