Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following article was written by Wilson G. Smillie '12, professor of Public Health Administration, at the Medical School...
Despite all these precautions--federal inspection, state supervision, local health department food inspection and every precaution taken by the University staff--an occasional outbreak of gastro-intestinal illness occurs...
...causes of the illness have been discovered, although many Freshmen blame their indispositions on Union food. No proof, however, has been advanced to prove that the food served at supper Tuesday was at fault. Dr. Edward G. Huber of the School of Public Health will investigate possible sources of the infection at the Union Dining Halls...
...workers lose 21,000,000 working days each year at an average cost of $4 per day, as a result of infection with these conditions. "Even 50 years ago . . . the diseases were often considered incurable. . . . To-day scientific medicine, combining its efforts with those of public health officials, is beginning an organized, sustained campaign against the venereal diseases, a campaign in which the public is participating on a tremendous scale. Throughout the country, women's clubs, the junior chambers of commerce, and similar organizations are aiding in dissemination of knowledge. Intelligent people are voluntarily submitting themselves to Wassermann tests...
...insists that "the art of culture is ... the art of loafing," and names the three great American vices as "efficiency, punctuality and the desire for achievement and success." His idea of the millennium in Manhattan includes a vision of the time when motorists will "inquire after their grandmothers' health in the midst of traffic ... fire engines will proceed at a snail's pace, their staff stopping on the way to gaze at and dispute over the number of passing wild geese in the sky." But he is glad U.S. faucets do not leak like the Chinese brand...