Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King and Queen motored 100 miles northeast of London to spend Christmas at Sandringham. His Majesty's health permitted him to shoot pheasants, attend church, ride his pony and be most gracious in replying to villagers' greetings. He overtaxed his strength inspecting his racing stables fortnight ago and a few days later caught the cold which this week, to the shock of the whole world, proved fatal. Knowing his constitution to have been weakened and his heart severely strained by his illness eight years ago, the King exerted himself before winter and its dangers should come...
Lida Josephine Usilton of the U. S. Public Health Service, who compiled these figures, believes that there is more venereal disease proportionately in small rural communities than in big cities. She estimates that there are approximately 493,000 individuals constantly under treatment or observation for gonorrhea and 683,000 for syphilis...
...John Levi Rice, New York City's Health Commissioner for the past two years, restlessly waited his turn to address the 2,500 social sanitarians. Exclaimed Dr. Rice: "Syphilis is today the biggest single problem facing my health department. There are 380,000 cases of syphilis in New York City and only one in ten is under medical care." Last year 57,000 new cases of syphilis were reported to Dr. Rice's office. But he believes at least 118,000 new cases were contracted in the metropolis. He asked the Board of Estimate...
...duties. He headed the committee that welcomed Charles Evans Hughes when that GOPresidential nominee made his ill-fated visit to California in 1916. He was vice president of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, served on the board of regents of the University of California for two decades. In poor health of late, Mr. Crocker has been spending more & more time on his 523-acre estate with its 67-room house in swank Burlingame...
...With a well-established program of instruction and research in Sanitary Engineering in the Graduate School of Engineering, and tested cooperation between this School and the School of Public Health, it would appear that there is no more favorable centre in America for the full academic development of engineering service in the control of the environment than at Harvard. A project of this kind should be based upon a flexible program of research and teaching...