Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malta fever. In 1886 Major General Sir David Bruce of the British Army Medical Corps discovered the guilty germ. In 1897 Bernhard L. F. Bang, a Danish veterinarian, discovered the germ which caused contagious abortion in cattle. In 1918 Bacteriologist Alice Catherine Evans of the U. S. Public Health Service showed that these two germs were closely related, and it was later proved that the disease originates in cattle, goats and swine, and is transmitted to man. Malta fever and Brucellosis are commonly known in the U. S. as undulant fever. First reported U. S. epidemic occurred in Phoenix, Ariz...
...Morgenthau instituted year-round pistol practice, taught by Coast Guard cracks, for all armed agents of his Customs Bureau, Alcohol Tax Unit, Bureau of Narcotics, White House Police, Bureau of the Mint, Secret Service, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Uniformed Force of the Secret Service, Public Health Service. He put up a handsome silver Morgenthau Trophy and several other prizes for annual competition...
...National Health Conference in Washington, D. C. last fortnight, the American Medical Association bitterly denounced President Roosevelt's suggestion that the Government provide medical care for needy citizens. Scarcely had the conference adjourned when the Government sounded the tocsin for its first pitched battle with the A. M. A. Reason: the A. M. A.'s boycott of the Group Health Association...
Last year in Washington, 2,500 low-salaried Government employes organized the Group Health Association, Inc., retained seven physicians to provide complete medical care at moderate rates. The A. M. A. immediately denounced this cooperative venture as "unethical," proceeded to use the stratagems of industrial warfare to put the G. H. A. out of business. They 1) threatened to expel G. H. A. doctors from the District Medical Society (local branch of the A. M. A.) ; 2) threatened to expel all physicians who consulted with G. H. A. staff-members; 3) barred G. H. A. doctors from Washington hospitals. Cooperative...
This week, Assistant Attorney General Thurman Wesley Arnold, in charge of trustbusting, announced that he was bringing the A. M. A. before a grand jury for violation of the Sherman Act. Although there are 60 cooperative health organizations in the U. S., with a total membership of 1,500,000, Trust-Buster Arnold declared that he was not concerned with justifying their method of medical care. "There should be free and fair competition between new forms of organization for medical service and older types of practice. ..." The A. M. A. violated the Sherman Act, Arnold said, because it attempted...