Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zealot Emerson, whom the Philadelphia County League of Women Voters had summoned for help, had a piece to speak, and he spoke it. One of his pointed paragraphs was directed at Health Director William Cosgrove Hunsicker, 65, homeopath, genitourinary surgeon, onetime State senator: "The present incumbent's qualifications would not permit him to be appointed to any full-time position in any city or rural community in New York State, nor would he meet the requirements of district health officer of New York City, responsible for a city neighborhood of only 2,000 or 3,000 population...
...Emerson went right ahead on the subject of Philadelphia's administration of public health: "Perhaps it will take an epidemic, some dramatic expression of illness, if any such is really heeded, to reveal the true neglect of those measures of prevention found desirable in other large cities...
...suppress venereal diseases in West Virginia. Dr. Edith MacBride-Dexter has similar charge in Pennsylvania. In Illinois the executive is Dr. John McShane. Eighteen months ago these jobs were obscure ones. Then, with an article in Reader's Digest, Surgeon General Thomas Parran of the U. S. Public Health Service opened a campaign to cure the 6,500,000 syphilitics in the U. S., prevent a new crop of 500,000 cases developing each year. First he was obliged to destroy national taboo against discussing venereal disease publicly...
...organization of an American Academy of Dermatology & Syphilology. ¶ The Intercollegiate Newspaper Association, convening at Bethlehem, Pa., undertook to spread the propaganda to all U. S. students. Delegates to the American Student Health Association convention in Chicago last week learned that every student in 144 U. S. colleges is to get a blood test. University of Minnesota has been doing this for a decade, has discovered only 23 men and 16 women syphilitics among 19,000 students...
...Harvard's School of Public Health organized a post-graduate course on venereal disease control for health officers and private practitioners. New York University next week begins a similar postgraduate course...