Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Elizabeth Ann Bayley, born in 1774, was the daughter of the first professor of anatomy at Columbia College, the first health officer of New York City. Her parents were Protestant...
...married W. Magee Seton, who subsequently went to Pisa, Italy, for his health. Soon after he died, leaving her with five children, she became a Catholic. She returned to New York. Her Catholicism ostracized her. She went to Baltimore and founded a school for girls, which later became the famous Sisters of Charity, at Emmetsburg, Md. She took vows and was three times chosen Mother of the Sisterhood...
...Forbes Godfrey, Ontario Minister of Health, revealed at a dinner of medical men that Dr. F. G. Banting, discoverer of insulin (TiME, Aug. 27), would shortly announce a new discovery " of even greater importance than the world-famed diabetes treatment." Dr. V. E. Henderson, of the pharmacological department of the University of Toronto Medical School, confirmed this with the words " Dr. Banting had something so good we couldn't believe it." Dr. Banting himself refused to talk. Until the new experiments have been repeated several times and the results thoroughly verified, the public will probably have to remain...
...Thomas Oliver, professor of practice of medicine in the College of Medicine, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, author of Diseases of Occupation, the world's leading authority on industrial hygiene, was the guest of honor at the 52nd annual meeting of the American Public Health Association, Boston. In a public address he generously granted America's leadership in safety and sanitation in modern industries...
...other main feature was the report of the Committee on Municipal Health Department Practice on its proposed award for the " best health" city of the U. S. (TIME, Oct. 1). Dr. Watson S. Rankin, state health officer of North Carolina, was appointed Field Director of the Association, to visit American cities for the purpose of scoring them in the contest and to advise on ways and means of improving community health conditions...