Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...past weeks nationwide sniffling, coughing and dull fevers have heralded the spread of influenza. Unlike the famed epidemic of 1918, the disease spread from west to east.* Last week the U. S. Public Health Service in Washington estimated that 700,000 persons had the disease, with a possible peak of 3,000,000 cases. Kansas was dangerously affected. The northeastern states seemed exempt...
...Public Health Service saw no cause for panicky fears. In 1918 about 450,000 persons died of influenza. Last week 43 out of 78 principal cities reported the comparatively small death total of 379. Everywhere the disease was mild, not virulent. The mortality rate for influenza is low. Some specialists maintain that death never occurs unless there are complications. The Public Health Service urged sleep, food, exercise, avoidance of crowds...
Subordinate to the State Council of 16 are the five Yuans or Divisional Councils. The first of these, the Executive Council, is the Cabinet, comprising 10 ministries: War, Interior, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Agriculture and Mining, Industry, Commerce and Labor, Education, Communications, Railways, Health...
...fish post, Baltimore ranks after Boston and New York and ordinarily handles its sea food as cleanly as do the others. Yet not sufficiently so to satisfy public health authorities. Hence representatives of Baltimore's health department had Baltimore's Association of Commerce draw Baltimore's wholesale fish & sea food mongers into a conference which, last week, drew up 19 regulations to keep the food clean...
...grotesque entomological observation reported last week by Dr. Raymond Corbett Shannon, U.S. scientist now working in the Argentine to improve local health: Certain night-flying moths there fly to the eyes of horses and suck the tears that their attacks cause. The same moths will settle on the skin of a sweating horse and drink at the salty perspiration. Hence, Dr. Shannon believes, the moths seek salt in the tears also...