Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greatest show of human antics on earth takes place at Nürnberg, the grey-walled medieval city which up-to-date Nazis have made the busy world hub of antiSemitism. Annually it is swamped by some 1,500,000 Germans, bursting with health, who arrive in high good humor for their yearly emotional spree, the Parteitag. Announced as Adolf Hitler's "honor guests" this week in Nürnberg were 100 certified Jew-baiting Arabs brought especially from Palestine and Africa, and Frau Mathilde Ludendorff, widow of the great German Wartime strategist. Today she zealously crusades...
Last week gloom enveloped Camp LaGuardia (for homeless men) in Orange County, N. Y. Reason: the 60 pedigreed rabbits, which New York City's Department of Health entrusted to the campers for breeding purposes last fall, had produced only 100 bunnies suitable for the municipal culture of pneumonia serum, thus blighting the department's hopes of shaving its annual $24,000 rabbit bill. Said Chief Rabbit-Keeper William Hodson, commissioner of Public Welfare: "I have been feeding them almost nothing but hormone extracts...
...western U. S. are plague-stricken.-* Not humans, but thousands of rats and squirrels are the victims. The situation, however, is serious, since the disease is readily transmitted from animals to man by fleas. Five human cases of plague have appeared this year, and the U. S. Public Health Service is out to top its 1937 record of catching 74,000 fleas, 22,000 rats...
...prime importance are the preventive measures of the U. S. Public Health Service, carried out under the guidance of Dr. Clifford Rush Eskey. With shotguns and traps, field crews roam the country, killing rats and squirrels at sight. Rat burrows are sprayed with calcium cyanide. Rat-proofing of buildings is strongly urged, and, when necessary, incoming ships are fumigated. By such constant, vigilant rat-catching, Dr. Eskey expects to forestall an epidemic such as Los Angeles had, in 1924, when 24 people were stricken...
...nose-blowing, said the New York State Department of Health last week, there are many schools of thought, but on nose-blowing as a science, only one. Strictly unscientific is the popular custom of gripping the end of the nose with the handkerchief, for it closes the nostrils, backfires the nose into the ear tubes or sinuses. When the nose is in good hearty shape, the grip method may not be harmful, but "when it is diseased, beware...