Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confined to drunks, crooks or dead men was the survey. "In the matter of hiring and firing personnel," it reported, "there is much that suggests bureaucratic injustice." Case 1,081: "The family are all in bad health, which is being aggravated by the need of clothing, shoes and properly ventilated apartment. The bedrooms have no windows and the house is damp...
...wholly owned by its policyholders) in only one division. In this mutual division, insurance examiners fortnight ago found a surplus of $4,792,000. But the nonparticipating end of the business showed a whopping deficit of $22,350,000. Main reason for the deficiency was that the personal accident & health department had been losing money for years, was more than $23,000,000 in the red. Main reasons for the accident department's showing were low premiums and high monthly benefits in its noncancelable disability policies, under which a man incapacitated for work must be paid so much...
...impression on impartial observers when he issued findings made in collaboration with insurance examiners from six States whose citizens are heavily involved in Pacific Mutual. Said the report: ''While the difficulties in which the company finds itself are due principally to inadequate rates on noncancelable accident and health policies, a considerable portion could have been alleviated by the executive officers of the company by following the advice of the company actuaries as early...
Denouncing this attitude as "subversive," Editor Fishbein declared that dog bites are not matters for self-treatment but for physicians and public health officials. As against Mr. Terhune's belief in the rarity of hydrophobia, he gave these data...
...daughter Queen Mary, "the evidence of congenital syphilis became, surely, all too plain. Her face was prematurely old and scarred, her hair thin and patchy; she had a 'square head,' with the forehead abnormally protruding." Queen Elizabeth, Henry's other daughter, "suffered a heritage of ill-health from her father . . . knew that she would never bear any children of her own." Queen Anne "was small in stature, and small women are always the most prolific. . . . She married Prince George of Denmark in 1683, when she was 19, and had 17 children in 25 years, before George...