Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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William Lloyd Aycock, Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene. In 1916 he served as diagnostician with the N. Y. State Department of Health, and later as director of the research laboratory of the Vermont Board of Health...
...Alfred Moritz Mond, most potent British chemical tycoon, and onetime (1921-22) Minister of Health...
...mothers of British Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain and his half brother, Minister of Health Neville Chamberlain, both died in childbirth.* Last week this fact was thought to account for the extraordinary warmth and fervor with which the Minister of Health addressed the House of Commons on the twin themes of maternal mortality and midwifery...
Amid renewed cheers and cries of "Hear! Hear!" Mr. Chamberlain then laid down a program for the creation by the Ministry of Health of two Departmental Committees of Inquiry, one to perform comprehensive field research upon maternal mortality, and the other to investigate "the status, training and remuneration of midwives . . . upon whom, after all, the success or failure of any efforts we may make to improve the conditions of childbirth must largely depend...
...course of certain general and subsequent remarks the Minister of Health said crisply: "Rheumatism is the most costly of all diseases to industry. . . . It accounts for one-sixth of the whole industrial invalidity of the country...