Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practiced abortion. After careful figuring, he decided that 681,600 abortions occur each year in the U. S., causing some 10,000 maternal deaths. According to Dr. Taussig, much of this mortality is due to secretiveness growing out of laws which declare abortions criminal unless performed to preserve the health or life of the mother...
Nonetheless a U. S. doctor is seldom prosecuted for performing a "criminal operation." He can generally claim that he did it to preserve the life or health of the woman, a legal obligation of his profession. After a search of Federal and state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic...
...report was of less interest than the $100 bonus paid each employe last Christmas and the well-founded expectations of similar bonuses to come. Only four and one-half miles from legendary Deadwood, Lead is a wholly-owned company town with a unique mining-town tradition of health and tranquillity. It has never known a depression. There are no pool halls in Lead, no saloons, no drugstore loafers. Homestake spends $65,000 a year on its hospital, more on its recreation centre. Though Homestake is a non-union mine, miners' wages were never cut below the 1929 level, were...
...Winter adventures in the Unknown Yukon" will be the subject of a lecture by Bradford Washburn this evening at 8.15 o'clock in Brattle Hall for the benefit of the Cambridge Tuberculosts and Health Association...
...muscles, he climbed ropes in his back yard. In high school he played football, in the Y. M. C. A. went in for basketball, boxing, gymnastics. Last year he began conscientious efforts to improve his strength. As the result of this diligence, Professor Frederick Rand Rogers, Dean of Student Health & Physical Education at Boston University, last week was able to declare Roger Knapp, at 17, the strongest...