Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...June 3, King George's 64th birthday, there will be trooping of colors, hoisting of flags, prayers of thanksgiving for his health throughout the Empire. Last week Queen Mary was 62. Few people, except the royal family, did much about...
...Davis at first hesitated about accepting this appointment, largely because of the Philippine climate and the health of Mrs. Davis, who is now recovering from a protracted illness at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital. Washington society was ready to believe that another factor had also weighed. There is a persistent report that Alice Davis, the new Governor's oldest daughter, is informally engaged to marry Allan Hoover, the President's younger...
Drink. President Portes Gil turned next to Prohibition, the object of his latest enthusiasm. He issued a lengthy document explaining the steps by which he hopes to wean Mexico from the pulque bottle. He created a national committee, with the Secretary of Public Health at its head, to carry these steps out. The steps...
...large cities nine* had not a single typhoid death last year. In 1927 there were seven such zero cities. One of them, Yonkers. has had no deaths from typhoid during four separate years. Another, Tacoma, last year had no diphtheria death, a remarkable effect of good public health administration. And Tacoma in 1927 had been the worst typhoid city of its northwest district. Memphis and Nashville have their distinction in the typhoid record. They had the worst rates per 100,000 population in the U. S.-15 for Nashville. 11.6 for Memphis.† Nearly as bad were El Paso...
...health work for students was continued during the year and complete physical examinations were made of the members of the two lower classes. Numerous physical defects which would interfere with their progress in their professional work were discovered and in most instances corrected. Eye defects were found to be quite common. The correction of visual defects occurring in our students is of great importance in so exacting a requirement on vision as dentistry. An effort is being made to study the effect on scholarship of the correction of these physical defects...