Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...activities, mark a definite attempt to effect periodical examination of all the children in the care of the Boston settlement houses. It is explained that the immediate need for such supervision arises from the danger of permitting physically deficient children to engage in athletics which might permanently impair their health. It is to combat this danger, arising from the ignorance of parents under a regulation which refuses them access to the physical reports of the public schools, that these students of the medical and dental schools will be employed...
...outlining the plan, Lane explained that reports of the ordinary school examiners are not obtainable by parents. As a result, children physically deficient have been allowed to engage in athletics and their health has in many cases been permanently impaired. To remove this danger, the Phillips Brooks House has undertaken to assure for all children in the care of the settlement houses, examinations, the diagnoses of which will be placed in the hands of the parents with recommendations for treatment. The secretaries of the settlement houses will endeavor to have attended all cases requiring medical or dental attention...
...that case she will put on a large price and make money out of the last home of Clémenceau." Chuckling, he added, "When I tell her I am feeling ill she is quite cheerful, and when I tell her I am in good health she is very sad. A very curious old lady...
...stimulate Seals sale and to report to the medical profession, Dr. William Hallock Park, director of the New York City department of health's bureau of laboratories, last week announced: "There is good reason to believe that the Calmette-Guérin vaccine has been effective in giving protection against tuberculosis...
...Your Health? contains a trio of hypochondriacs whose health fluctuates according to moods and the vagaries of a broken blood-pressure gauge. Connoisseurs will be reluctant to believe that this comedy was actually written by Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson...