Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prophylactic teams, each composed of a specially trained doctor, a nurse and a clerk, this summer started to experiment on a national scale with the Peet-Schultz prophylactic under the general direction of Dr. Charles Armstrong of the U. S. Public Health service who last year found that the spraying of Alabama children's noses with alum did some good in preventing infantile paralysis. Half-a-dozen teams operated in Omaha last week. These teams soon found that metal tipped atomizers are apt to Injure the nostrils of young children, who jerk and sneeze when treated. Children...
Having proved by bacteriologic tests that the Hansa's sick actually suffered from typhoid, health officers threatened to raise a loud scandal if she took on any passengers for Europe. Rather than face this, Captain Lehmann quietly loaded freight and mail, took on an extra doctor and nurses, sailed with his sick straight back to Germany...
...cooperated financially with 130 agencies, in amounts varying from a few thousand to several hundred thousand dollars. To scholars doing advanced scientific work it provided 222 grants. It provided 700 fellowships for post-graduate training. It conducted research through a field staff of 70 public health experts on yellow fever, malaria, hookworm disease, tuberculosis, yaws, diphtheria, schistosomiasis. influenza. Its money flowed into 53 foreign countries from Scandinavia to Java. The agencies which it helped included 41 local and national governments, 44 educational institutions, 20 research institutes, two libraries, 23 councils, associations, societies and commissions, mostly national or international...
...Hygiene Department conducts sanitary inspections throughout the University. The standards maintained are well within the requirements of the American Public Health Association...
...beds and stands on Mt. Auburn Street about half a mile from the Yard. As a rule the Infirmary cares only for cases of relatively minor illness. All cases of major illness or those requiring major surgery are referred to Boston hospitals. For the convenience of students, a Dental Health Service and an eye clinic are available in the Hygiene Building...