Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said Dr. Edward S. Godfrey Jr., Commissioner of Health of New York State, who was elected 1939 president to succeed Abel Wolman: ". . . I would prefer a demonstration at the outset on a smaller scale than a State as a unit...
Official acceptance by such a powerful health organization greatly strengthened the cause of the 110-odd small-scale health and hospital insurance groups which render services to more than 2,150,000 persons in the U. S. Harried by the hostile A. M. A., the small health groups have led a stormy existence...
...Unless there is a marked reversal of trend," said Dr. Thomas Parran, head of the U. S. Public Health Service last week, "the mortality rate from all causes of death during the current year will be the lowest on record, with the possible exception of 1933." During the first six months of 1938, he added, the death rate was 10.8 per 1,000 a figure surpassed only by the 10.7 rate for the entire year of 1933. Some 60% of the total 1938 decline was due to the remarkably small death toll of pneumonia and influenza last winter. Other factors...
Last week over 4,000 experts in public and industrial health met in Kansas City for the 67th convention of the American Public Health Association. High lights of the meeting: 1) unanimous support of the Roosevelt Administration's proposal to spend $850,000,000 annually on the health of U. S. citizens; 2) unanimous pledge of assistance to health insurance groups...
Although they deplored the antagonism of the American Medical Association toward compulsory health insurance, public health leaders made it clear that extension of State medicine should proceed gradually to avoid confusion...