Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Definitely feeble nowadays, Pope Pius XI has lately been variously described as suffering from dropsy, uremia, Bright's disease, asthma, poor metabolism, heaviness of limb. Last week a prelate in private audience with the Holy Father made reference to newspaper accounts of his health. As put into English by a United Pressman in Rome, the Pope's sporting reply...
...following article was written by Wilson G. Smille '12, professor of Public Health Administration, at the Medical School...
Despite all these precautions-federal inspection, state supervision, local health department food inspection and every precaution taken by the University staff-an occasional outbreak of gastrointestinal illness occurs. These are practically inevitable because of the complexity of our mode of life and the great number of processes that are required in bringing our wide variety of food stuffs from the farm to the table...
Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, called in Wilson G. Smillie, professor of Public Health at the Medical School to tract down the source of the trouble. Professor Smillie is a noted authority on such forms of food poisoning and with several assistants went over the items on the Freshman menu which might have caused illness...
...idea then seemed too large, too radical, and it was argued that every cent available was needed for more urgent matters. Wages and profits together were low and any deductions for social insurance would have gone hard. Under these conditions the bills for employment, old-age and health indemnity lay unnoticed, waiting till times should improve...