Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Around him he rallied those whom he calls upon in all major" catastrophes: his Reliever-in-Chief, Harry Hopkins, his Commander of Public Health, Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr., his mover of battalions, Chief of Staff Malin Craig, the Army's ranking engineer, Major General Edward Murphy Markham, the chairman cf the American Red Cross. Dr. Gary T. Grayson, and many another. Together they mapped and planned how to care for a million suffering citizens, how to mitigate $400,000,000 worth of property damage in Mid-U. S., how to save other millions in humanity and property from...
...Government last week yielded to a long yearning on the part of shipping companies to have quarantine regulations modified. For the first time since 1744 ships may tie up in New York Harbor without pausing for medical inspection of passengers and crew. The U. S. Public Health Service and the New York City Health Department hereafter will take the word of the chief medical officers aboard SENIOR SURGEON AKIN "Permission is granted...
Inspectors from the Quarantine Station went aboard.* They took the ship's chief medical officer's word concerning the health of first and second-class passengers, examined the sick on those lists, carefully scrutinized every third-class passenger for sickness and lousiness, glanced over the cargo for abnormal evidences of rats. Only when the Quarantine Station men gave the word might the yellow flag be hauled down, anchor weighed, the ship set in motion to her dock. This sanitary permission to deal with people ashore maritime men call "pratique." Hereafter most passenger ships bound for New York...
...Public Health Service, soon after being appointed Chief Quarantine officer at Rosebank. When an inbound qualified ship is 24 to twelve hours outside New York Harbor, her master and chief medical officer radio: "No known or suspected quarantinable disease nor any prevalence of any contagious or highly infectious disease on board...
According to the issue of January 26, 1937, Freddie Bartholomew plans to enter Harvard, while Shirley Temple is deterred from registering at Radcliffe only through the dieticians' refusal to supply her with health foods such as Wheaties, Cocomalt, etc. This is announced with such reproachful sadness by the Crimson that one can only assume that these items are common fare in the Harvard Houses, and that their dieticians would be delighted to pump Freddie and his classmates full of haliver oil, on the slightest provocation. We heartily endorse this attitude, since by the natural laws of evolution the "precious ducklings...