Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...jury found the monopoly extended from the ten big milk-distributing corporations through a dealers' association, a farm milk-producers' association, and milk-bottlers, down through an A. F. of L. milkwagon drivers' union to President Herman N. Bundesen and his Chicago Board of Health, a police officer, Daniel A. Gilbert, and two men who arbitrated price disputes...
...editor of the official New York Medical Week, and Dr. Walter Palmer Anderton, new chairman, is a prominent representative of the old school. Not that the platform of the Progressives was revolutionary, for they offered no clear-cut, constructive program. Few of them agree on the merits of compulsory health insurance or of the Wagner Health Bill. What united them was a desire for full, free discussion on the problem of medical care. The Progressives banded together merely to: 1) "introduce a liberal and inquiring attitude towards . . . social problems"; 2) "stimulate the society to take the lead in the movement...
...escaping this jinx of illness, John D. Daggett 1L, the best man, was forced to rush to New Orleans in order to preserve his own health...
...eyewitness accounts of Tri-State life. What distinguishes the committee's report from most of the 50-odd other silicosis reports which have come out in the last 20 years is the fact that it treats silicosis not as a disease of miners alone but as a public-health menace which indirectly lays low the miners' women & children...
...shortness of breath, a dry cough, pain in the chest. Silicosis alone is not serious, painful or disabling. Essentially it is just a case of dirty lungs. But silicotics are extraordinarily susceptible to tuberculosis, frequently die from it. Dust from "chat" piles, according to the Kansas State Board of Health, is a potential menace to all Tri-State inhabitants. Only ways to prevent silicosis in the mines are to wet down the "working faces" and muck piles of zinc, ventilate the mines with fresh air, provide gas masks for the miners. Since the U. S. Bureau of Mines made...