Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Within a fortnight an army of health investigators will deploy upon the householders of the nation to get answers to a quarter-billion questions. Last week the general staff of the quizzing army established headquarters in Detroit, whence they will manage operations in five great areas: 1) Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota. 2) California, Oregon, Washington, Utah. 3) Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas. 4) New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia. 5) Ohio, New York, Massachusetts...
Purpose is to make an inventory of the nation's health, especially of the chronic diseases and disabilities which impede people from earning enough money to live on. Some 3,500 quizzers, operating under the general direction of George St. John Perrott, chief statistician of the U. S. Public Health Service, will canvass 750,000 households with questions such as these...
...dance, Mr. Andrew McLewis wants to lend him money, all sorts of unknown friends are anxious of help him. "It's not your money we want," they say, "indeed, we will not mention the cost of these trifles; it's your help, your welfare, your friendship, your success, your health that we are after...
...Mather, Harvard men have attended afternoon Hygience lectures with all the zest of a courtesan at a prayer meeting. It was probably too much to expect that even a new regime in the Hygiene Building could change over-night the traditional attitude of Harvard men towards the subject of health. In view of this feeling demonstrated again day before yesterday in New Lecture Hall, Dr. Bock's abolition of the voluntary lectures appears as a logical, though unfortunate, course of action...
...Five health-minded yearlings assembled in the New Lecture Hall at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon to hear Arlie V. Bock, Henry K. Oliver Professor of Hygiene, deliver the first voluntary hygiene lecture under the new program of the department. No lecture was delivered...