Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kellogg appointed as general director of the Foundation Dr. Stuart Pritchard, onetime president of the National Tuberculosis Association. Dr. Pritchard went to work in seven counties near Battle Creek† First he persuaded these counties to establish health departments, with the Foundation footing most of the bills. He saw that youngsters got medical examinations and treatment (free, when necessary), that mothers had doctors to help deliver their babies, that sanitary engineers told people how to dispose of their sewage. But he soon concluded that this sort of thing was like patching a rusty roof...
...believing that the time had come to find out how fully the seven counties realized the measure of their improvement, Dr. Pritchard sent to 80,000 voters a report and a ballot. The ballot asked voters whether they were willing to tax themselves 25? per capita to continue their health departments, relieving the Foundation of part of its burden. Last week the votes were counted...
Three years ago a 395-pound Russian housewife waddled into the office of Professor James Joseph Short of Columbia University Medical School and announced that she wanted to reduce. Undismayed, Dr. Short gave her a thorough physical examination. She was only 32 years old, was in good health. The cause of her obesity was not malfunctioning of her thyroid gland but plain overeating. Dr. Short prescribed a well-balanced diet of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals amounting to only 600 calories...
...months she got rid of 239 pounds. Only discomfort she suffered was the surgical removal of an apron of skin, two feet long and one foot wide, which hung loosely over her deflated abdomen. When she weighed in at 156 pounds, said Dr. Short, "she was in excellent health and spirits...
...require the utilization of a convenient outdoor parking-lot. Thus on the surface at least, this parking-space appears to be the most practical and most convenient site for the new infirmary. The lot is University property and fully large enough. If the infirmary was erected here, all the health facilities of the University would be unified; no longer would sick patients have a discouraging trek from 15 Holyoke Street to Stillman. The new infirmary would be infinitely superior to the present one and would obviously contain an isolation ward and the latest medical equipment...