Word: health
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ring, the competitor sent Mrs. Florence Ilch a telegram which read as follows: "Hurry to New Haven immediately, son, James, killed in automobile accident, (signed) Roommate." In a state of partial collapse, Mrs. Ilch was officially informed that both of her sons were in a fine condition of health. At this, Mrs. Ilch recovered and exhibited her dogs with some success...
Homely statistics for the year 1927, compiled by Miss Elizabeth G. Fox of the Red Cross Public Health Nursing Service, were announced at Elizabeth, N. J., where she addressed Visiting Nurses last week. Each family in the U. S. spends an average of $60 yearly on doctor's bills. That comes to a daily total income of $1,500,000 to the medical and allied professions. Every day of the year, 2% of the total population is incapacitated, 50% is suffering from some ailment or other. Hospitals worth $5,000,000,000 and maintained at a cost...
...Beckford, D.M.D. '06, Professor of Prosthetic Dentistry, will lecture on the "Restoration of Function in the Mouth and Teeth as a Health Measure" at the Harvard Medical School next Sunday afternoon at 4 o'clock...
...work is the result of a meeting of the National Research Council last spring, at which a report on a survey of the field of industrial medicine was made. The purpose of the report was to find the most pressing problem of the day concerning health in industry. It was discovered that the conditions in the granite cutting industry was in immediate need of attention. Accordingly a committee with Dr. D. L. Edsall, Dean of the Medical School, and Professor Drinker as heads formed...
Professor Drinker has had constructed in the basement of the School of Public Health building a model granite cutting shop, with all the typical cutting and surfacing machines. Various granite associations, much interested in the experiments, contributed must of the machines and are sending a granite cutter to work in the model shop under typical condition. As Professor Drinker's special field is ventilation, he expects to conduct most of his researches in this line, with the view of cleaning out the dust laden air in the shops before the workers have had time to breathe...