Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON--America's roving ambassador, Norman H. Davis, is forsaking the precarious footing of European political intrigue to become national chairman of the Red Cross, President Roosevelt announced today. Davis, 59, and reportedly in poor health, succeeds the late Admiral Cary T. Grayson...
Meanwhile from Swiss Dr. Herman H. Mooser, League of Nations health official in Central China, came a warning that China is up against another foe-typhus (see p. 32). "Typhus is likely to cause the collapse of all the Chinese armies in the central area. I don't see how they can escape it." warned the League official...
...Polish front to his French front. Today few U. S. residents know anything of the disease or of the dirty pink eruptions, high fever, delirium and terrific death toll peculiar to typhus fever.*Half-a-dozen years ago, however, Dr. Rolla Eugene Dyer of the U. S. Public Health Service, coming out of a hospital, weak, emaciated and quavering, revealed that he had contracted typhus from fleas, a cage of which he had worn for the sake of experiment taped to his leg. The fleas came from rats. And that explained the mode of transmission of a mild type...
Progressive schools in Czechoslovakia, like those in the U. S., stress moppets' health (see cut), and teach children informally: let them learn arithmetic by keeping records of their height and weight; teach them reading by the "global method" (to recognize whole words instead of plodding through them letter by letter...
...Great Lakes region, and there have been about three times the average number of cases. The epidemic started in November and by February had already produced almost as many cases as had occurred by March or April in the epidemics of 1934 and 1935. Said the Public Health Service report: "The number of reported cases is still increasing and so it seems likely that the present epidemic will be more severe than the two previous...