Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Middle Ages. Sometimes their upthrust is accelerated when a rich man dies, leaves a legacy. San Francisco's Grace Cathedral (Episcopal), building since 1910 on Nob Hill, has had a different course. For the past year its staff has watched, with anxious eyes, the state of health of a doddering, 85-year-old retired dentist named Dr. Nathaniel Coulson. To the Cathedral's building fund, pious Dr. Coulson has assigned the income of no less than 50 annuities, totaling between $1,000 and $2,000 a month. The annuities cease when Dr. Coulson dies...
...person good bowel function may mean one movement every day. In another ... it may mean one movement every three or four days. . . . The dictum that a bowel movement every day is necessary for good health is absolutely false. Every person's bowel has its own individual law of frequency of movement. . . . Constipation exists [only] if defecation is difficult or painful, or if there is a sense of incompleteness of evacuation...
...addicts. Last fortnight Surgeon General Thomas Parran officially opened the second U. S. narcotic farm, a group of handsome Spanish-mission style buildings erected on 1,400 acres of lonely clay plateau four miles southeast of Fort Worth, Texas. Several days later Dr. Michael James Pescor of the Public Health Service issued a report on the activities of the original farm, which sprawls over 1,050 acres of rolling blue grass country near Lexington...
Plotted by hard-pressed laymen and rebellious doctors, no two health-insurance schemes are exactly alike. Most prominent...
...Group Health Association, Inc. Last year William F. Penniman, deputy governor of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, who was dismayed at the Board's loss of several hundred thousand dollars annually through sickness of employes, encouraged 1,000 Board workers to join the Group Health Association. Inc. Starting with a $40,000 loan from the Board, G. H. A. established a clinic with laboratory and X-ray departments, hired a staff of physicians, offered government employes complete health service and 21-day hospitalization at rates of $2.20 a month for single persons, $3.30 a month for families...