Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Craving guidance, octogenarian Governor Dickinson first imported from Charlotte two cronies: Dr. Henry Allen Moyer, his personal physician; Emerson R. Boyles, old-line political warhorse who had served under Governor Fitzgerald as his legal adviser. Dr. Moyer's duties include protecting frail, doddery Mr. Dickinson's health, driving with him back & forth to the Governor's Charlotte farm (20 miles from Lansing), where Mr. Dickinson putters in his garden. Dr. Moyer also spends a good deal of time behind a newspaper in the gubernatorial office, occasionally offering his patient nuggets of statesman'y wisdom ("I have...
Poliomyelitis. Next month the greatest scourge of childhood, poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis), will make its yearly descent on the U. S. To parents who are nervous about bringing their children to the New York World's Fair, Dr. John L. Rice, New York City Health Commissioner, was reassuring: "In the years 1937 and 1938 the incidence of the disease was very low and this year, up to the present time, it is even lower. No one can predict the future of poliomyelitis accurately, but based on our present knowledge, no one need fear infantile paralysis in New York City this...
...Fairfax Hall of New Rochelle, N. Y. He viewed with alarm the fact that 18,000 U. S. schoolteachers have tuberculosis, that no laws prevent them from spreading their infections in classrooms. Dr. Hall urged the Academy to plump for examinations of teachers, to educate parents to insist on health cards for domestics. In wealthy Westchester County, N. Y., where 25% of high-school children had a positive tuberculin reaction, an organized campaign of adult health examinations, at the low price of $7 a person a year, .was started by 500 physicians last spring...
MOSCOW--Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens of the sensational 'Robinson-Rubens" passport fraud and espionage case tonight was believed to be under the surveillance of the Soviet N.K.V.D.--Secret police--possibly at some obscure health resort, after her release from Butyrskaya prison...
...five day meeting will be formally opened Monday morning at 10 o'clock with a greeting by Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14, Chairman of the University Overseers Visiting Committee to the School of Public Health...