Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that it is caused by a specific virus. This was ascertained during the 1933 epidemic by one of the most vigorous and concentrated attacks on a disease ever made by Medicine. Immediate discoverers of that virus were Dr. McCordock; Dr. Charles Armstrong, virus expert of the U. S. Public Health Service; Dr. Leslie Tillotson Webster of Rockefeller Institute; Dr. Ralph Stewart Muckenfuss, then of St. Louis, now director of New York .City's famed Bureau of Laboratories...
Infantile paralysis last week pursued the course of what medical men still described as a ''mild epidemic." In Chicago, where there were 228 cases, health and education officials still refused to open schools. In Philadelphia, an 11-year-old sufferer was brought to a city hospital from Williamsport and in the ensuing scare, Philadelphia's mayor forbade any hospital to accommodate out-of-town cases. But the biggest infantile paralysis news of the week lay in two new artificial lungs, cheaper and simpler than the $1,000 to $2,450 big steel boxes...
Thus far this year about 5,000 children of the nation have developed poliomyelitis. By this time last year about 2,000 children had it. But the difference does not alarm epidemiologists of the U. S. Public Health Service, who call the current occurrence a "mild epidemic," because its cases are diffused over the entire Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes region, reaching into Canada. Nonetheless, local health officers are worried. Communities are postponing school terms, forbidding children to attend theatres, go to parks, go in swimming pools...
...some mechanical ingenuity. Hospital for Sick Children had only one mechanical respirator, and needed at least one more. The only professional manufacturers of this life-saving device are: Warren E. Collins, Inc. of Boston, which makes respirators designed by Professor Philip Drinker of Harvard's School of Public Health; and J. H. Emerson Co. of Cambridge, Mass., owned by John Haven Emerson, inventive son and namesake of New York City's onetime commissioner of health. The two companies long quarreled over patent infringements. Meanwhile, since 1929 only 250 Drinker respirators have been manufactured (price...
...beneficiaries of the Foundation must inevitably bring dismay to its trustees. Nankai University, whose Rockefeller-aided science building was destroyed by Japanese shells a month ago, was given $45,000 (Mex.) last year. Besides aid to a handful of universities. Rockefeller projects in North China included mass education, public health, rural reconstruction...