Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eyed Elizabeth Ann Bayley, reports Father Feeney, was the most beautiful debutante of Manhattan in her day. One of her distant relatives is Franklin Delano Roosevelt. She was born a Protestant, married a handsome merchant, William Seton, bore him five children. They went to Italy to improve his frail health, instead were taken off their ship at Livorno and quarantined in a lazaretto because yellow fever had broken out before they left Manhattan. Cold, underfed, Elizabeth made no complaint but prayed in their dungeon while in the next room hard-bitten sailors cursed and killed themselves. When they were released...
Ponderers of this dilemma argued at length with one another in San Francisco last week. Assistant Surgeon General Warren Fales Draper of the U. S. Public Health Service hinted that the Federal Government, which already runs a tremendous medical establishment for soldiers, sailors and war veterans, was ready to expand further...
...citizens pay two cents or more a day to insure themselves against hospital bills; that 15,000,000 citizens who work for railroads, public utilities and industries are already accustomed to having company doctors look after their accidents and ills; that insurance company agents are itching to sell health insurance to the populace...
...large majority of the A. M. A.'s delegates last week held firm to this tenet: that the health of all the people of this country will be protected best if: 1) each locality is permitted to adapt one of several endorsed social-economic-medical procedures to its own local needs; 2) doctors are put in charge of all governmental and corporate medical systems. Greatest desideratum to them is a medical Secretary of Health in the President's Cabinet. Great fear is a nonmedical Secretary of Welfare...
...Surgeon General Thomas Parran saying: "The underprivileged third of our population, when seriously ill, needs help from tax funds. The health of the people is quite properly the concern of Government...