Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ruth's (his old teammate), a handful of U. S. high-school kids prepared last week to do-or-die for the Lou Gehrig Cup. Emblematic of the national high-school football championship, the big, silver trophy will be awarded annually to the winner of Miami's "Health Bowl" game. Scheduled for Christmas night this year, its proceeds will be donated to the "Fight Infantile Paralysis Campaign...
...plan include: Economist Alvah Eugene Staley of Tufts Col lege; Manager Daniel Bloomfield of the Boston Chamber of Commerce Retail Trade board; Secretary J. Arthur Moriarty of the Boston Typographical Union; New England Wage & Hour Administrator Thomas H. Eliot. Medical directors (headed by Dr. Cabot) do not belong to Health Service, but are banded into a brother corporation called Medical and Surgical Associates. This group will ex amine and appoint about 100 doctors to serve subscribers; Health Service, Inc. will pay them...
Rates for Health Service subscribers: $1.50 a month for single persons, $2.50 for married couples, 50? for each child under 21, a maximum family charge of $4. In addition, heads of families must pay a $3 initiation fee, an extra dollar for the first four home calls, an extra $25 for obstetrical care, 50? a month for infant care. Benefits include medical examinations, complete medical and surgical care, "preventive care," laboratory tests, X-ray study. Not included: hospital service, medicines, nursing, medical appliances, treatment for alcoholics, radium for cancer. Subscribers who wish cheap hospital care can also join Boston...
...under way, Health Service has raised $3,000 in private contributions. In addition, the Service has the privilege of dipping into a $20,000 emergency pot guaranteed by Boston philanthropists. To make the Service selfsupporting, it needs a minimum of 4,000 participants. Last week when the plan was announced, members of Boston clubs and unions eagerly called for details, began to round up recruits for a grand opening, March...
...Cabot & friends, in a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine last week, promised that they would cause "minimum disturbance to existing private medical practice." But the Journal pointed out that plans for Health Service, Inc. had been submitted to the Massachusetts Medical Society last spring, had been flatly turned down...