Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fourteen thousand " panel" doctors serving 15,000,000 people under the British national health insurance scheme voted to strike Jan. 1 if a cut in their stipend proposed by the Government is ordered. Under the National Insurance Act adopted when David Lloyd George was Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1911, five parties are concerned-insured workingmen, employers, insurance societies, doctors, the Government...
...quest for health he became extremely engrossed in Natural History and for the earlier part of his college course he firmly intended to make his life work a study of that subject. During the summers of his college years, he and his brother made expeditions into the Maine woods and there learned the rudiments of out-door life which he put into practice later in Africa and his famous hunting expeditions in other countries. His observing faculties were always keenly alert in spite of his nearsightedness...
...which is organized in nine sections, held intensive sessions for specialists in each branch: Public Health Administration, Laboratory, Food and Drugs, Vital Statistics, Sanitary Engineering, Industrial Hygiene, Child Hygiene, Health Education and Publicity, Public Health Nursing. Dr. William H. Park, Director of Laboratories, of the New York City Health Department, was elected President for 1923-1924 to succeed Dr. Ernest C. Levy, Health Officer of Richmond...
Benjamin Irish, tenant farmer, of Sawtry, Huntingdonshire, England. Owns very few horses, only two of any previous account, Radium and Periosteum. Bought Papyrus in 1921 for $17,500. Ill health prevents his attendance at Belmont...
Robert S. Lovett, for ten years Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Union Pacific Railroad, announced his retirement from active management of the company on Jan. 1 next, on the score of age and health. Mr. Lovett will, however, continue with the U. P. in the newly created post of " Chairman of the Board," with the task of directing matters connected with consolidations and with the valuation of railroad properties in which the Interstate Commerce Commission is now engaged. In addition, Mr. Lovett will remain a Director and an ex-officio member of the Finance Committee, as well...