Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Correspondent Dunn's easy assurance in waving away pasteurization and presuming it possible to control raw-milk-borne disease simply by increased public health department supervision and stricter standards of production should be sufficient warning for discriminating persons. Fact is, many medical men strongly favor pasteurizing even certified milk, a nearly sterile product costing double the price of well supervised family grades. Nearly 70% of certified is now sold pasteurized simply as an extra safeguard. As regards the merits and demerits of pasteurization, therefore, let correspondent Dunn give medical men and public health officials some credit for intelligence after...
...also check with city Boards of Health in his own State of Massachusetts to assure himself of the utter wrongness of his charge that "the average city supply [is] five days old." That charge and the insinuation that pasteurized milk "may be marketed as fresh milk up to ten days from the cow" provide a key to the believability of certain of his other statements...
...residents of Tristan da Cunha, "world's loneliest island," in the South Atlantic midway between South Africa and South America, possess no cinema, no radio, no automobiles, no police, no liquor, live in rigidly moral communism on potatoes and fish, have practically perfect teeth and general health. Of mixed English-Scotch-Irish-American-Dutch-Italian-African descent, most of their ancestors got to the bleak volcanic island by way of shipwreck. Also from a wrecked ship, in 1882, arrived rats which multiplied faster than mariners...
Though Editor Martin, who suffered from malaria, retired for a few years to build up his health, there was no dearth of energetic contributors. From the magazine's point of view, most important of these was Charles Dara Gibson. To Life for $4 he sold his first contribution: A dog outside his kennel baying the moon.* Encouraged by a publisher who was also an artist, Gibson was joined in Life's early pages by such celebrated draughtsmen as E. W. Kemble (funny Negroes), Palmer ("Brownies") Cox, F. G. Attwood...
Knowing that leprosy is not very contagious, Manila's chief health officials quickly appeared at San Lazaro to placate its inmates. The Philippine Government, they intimated, lacks money to pay institutional lepers immediately. On the other hand, the Government is building regional leprosaria where lepers may live near their kin. As soon as doctors pronounce a leper cured he will be freed. But only one out of 20 lepers may expect to be cured. Therefore, the other 19 had better make the best of confinement. The Government gives them vegetable gardens to tend, occupations to perform, diversions. Children...