Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nineteen appointments to the faculty for the present academic year were announced today as follows: Manfred Bowditch '12, lecturer on Industrial hygiene, School of Public Health, Director, Massachusetts Division of Occupational Hygiene...
Nels A. Nelson lecturer on Public Health Administration, Long Island College Hospital Director of Division of Genitoinfectious Diseases of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
...cases, with cholera-afflicted foreigners observed to succumb more rapidly than Chinese. Japanese authorities admitted 200 of their soldiers were down with cholera at Paoshan, and the Chicago Daily News's unsensational Reginald Sweetland cabled: "Swarms of cholera flies stream into homes, restaurants and offices, and [Shanghai] health officials feel that only a sudden change of weather with heavy showers and lower temperatures can avert a major epidemic." Latest news was that 50 people per day were dying of cholera in Shanghai...
Meantime 163,000 junior-college and high-school students were hastily summoned back to classes, but Dr. Herman N. Bundesen, president of the Board of Health, refused to set a date for the younger children's return. Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association sneered: "Panic ... is frequently reflected in the statements and actions of public officials." If the statements and actions of public officials showed that they did not know the difference between education and a circulation stunt, the press was more realistic: cartoonists, columnists and inquiring reporters had a field day with...
...political party, was elected to the Diet in 1907. With the World War, Masaryk, sensing the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, won the Allied powers to the cause of a national Czechoslovakia. First gesture of grateful Czechs was to elect him President, which post he held until failing health forced him to resign in 1935; last gesture of grateful Czechs was to award him seven years ago a private fortune of $600,000, which he promptly gave to a fund for cancer study...