Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Chicago, like other U. S. metropoles, has more than its per capita share of U. S. venereal disease. U. S. Public Health Surgeon Hugh S. Cumming stated last week that at the beginning of this year the U. S. had 176,502 cases of syphilis and 143,490 of gonorrhea reported. That averages one venereal case for every 400 men, women and children in the U. S. So Chicago, with some 3,000,000 population, should normally have 7,500 cases. It has considerably more...
Chicago would have more than it now has were it not for the activities of the Illinois Social Hygiene League and the Public Health Institute. The League has as president Dr. Louis Ernst Schmidt, 60, able genitourinary surgeon, for 30 years professor in that specialty at Northwestern University Medical School...
Chicago doctors pay $15,000 to $20,000 for their education. They expect good income after that investment. Public or semi-public institutions hurt business for private practitioners. Hence Chicago doctors have long yammered against the Public Health Institute. Last week...
...marathon of them all, the youngest offspring of a race long the victim of the inbreeding of defectives will commence within earshot of the Square. At present no steps to avert the holding of the Music Box endurance run are reported to have been taken by the board of health, but that may well be explained on the ground that the community physicians are interested merely in the physical well being of their charges...
...collection of hard bodies, each shaped like a cock's spur. Hence the name ergot, from French argot (spur). Good, dry ergot is of inestimable value in obstetrics. Its extract contracts the uterus and arteries, stops hemorrhages, raises blood pressure. Good ergot saves the lives and bolsters the health of hundreds of thousands of women annually. But bad ergot may contain poisons which cause abscesses and kill. U. S. pharmacists get their raw ergot from Spain, Portugal, Poland and Russia...