Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Francis, officer of the U. S. Public Health Service, caught the disease while studying its microorganism, Micrococcus melitensis. It is the second febrile disease he has contracted in the public health service. The other was rabbit fever, which hunters, butchers and furriers are apt to catch from infected rabbits (TIME, June 18 & Nov. 26). Academically, rabbit fever is termed tularemia, after Tulare County, Calif., where in 1910 it was first identified. Doctors, however, prefer to call it Francis Disease, in honor of Dr. Francis, who isolated the germ (Bacterium tularense) to his own harm, malaise and inconvenience...
...connection with the general furthering of physical exercise at the Dental School, arrangements have been made for students in poor health to rest in the sunlight during the noon hour on cots placed for that purpose on the roof of the School building...
...annual budget of Tuberculosis Seals has been mailed to all men in Harvard College. The Cambridge Tuberculosis Association hopes to raise $12,000 through the sale of Christmas Seals, for its work for the prevention of Tuberculosis and the promotion of good health...
...Manhattan. Mr. Jones, native of Carthage, N.Y., was successively mill boy, factory worker, messenger, typewriter salesman, Standard Oilman (35 years). A tireless worker, he abjured recreations until his soth birthday when his fellow directors gave him golf clubs. He was elected to the chairmanship in 1925; simultaneously his health began to fail...
...years Greenwich House has given to the Italians in the Village all that they have known of cultural development, health, recreation. There are more than 26 thousand a year who take advantage of the music school, baby clinics and nursery, arts, drama, dancing, made possible by the original and continued efforts of Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch, director...