Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great advances that have been made in the control of epidemic disease, the lengthening of the span of human life and the improvement in public health and well-being are closely associated with the development of engineering means for the control and improvement of the environment. The spread of intestinal diseases has been checked by water supply and sewerage works and by the sanitary production and distribution of foods; insect-borne diseases have yielded to proper engineering measures for the control of insects and their animal hosts; and it is hoped that many of the respiratory diseases will suffer marked...
...return on her own terms if she would only relearn all her Wagner roles in English, on the mere chance that subscribers might be willing to accept great music if it was not sung in German. Fremstad refused. When the Wagner operas were reinstated after the War, her health was broken and since then she has been much too smart to attempt a feeble, worn-out comeback...
...State psychologist. She charged that her mother, greedy for the whole trust fund income, had had her sterilized. From the fantastic miasma of charges and counter-charges which promptly enveloped the case, the following facts emerged undisputed. On Aug. 14, 1934 Mrs. Mary S. Scally, a State Health Department psychologist, examined Ann Cooper Hewitt in San Francisco, gave the 20-year-old girl a mental age of 11. Dr. Tilton Edwin Tillman, Mrs. Hewitt's physician, recommended that Ann be sterilized as feebleminded. On Aug. 18, suffering from appendicitis, the girl was taken to San Francisco's Dante...
...course will probably embrace studies in city planning, public health, budget making, sanitary engineering, public housing and other topics vital to the general welfare which the public servant is supposed to serve. It should make an important contribution to the practicability of college training. Oklahoma Daily
...headed Governor Chandler cruising the streets for votes in a sound truck with a red-combed rooster on the radiator, is Professor Lloyd Arnold of the University of Illinois, in a state neighbor to Kentucky. With a colleague, Dr. J. A. Vauchulis, in the division of bacteriology, department of health, Dr. Arnold has perfected a new skin disinfectant for surgical use. The new solution is much cheaper than any disinfectant known today and more efficient than any other. Eminent in medicine, Dr. Arnold received his M.A. at Texas Christian, an M.D. at Vanderbilt. He has taught at Tulane, Loyola (Chicago...