Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mentor of its citizens' health the Federal Government operates the U. S. Public Health Service (Treasury Department), the Children's Bureau (Department of Labor) and the Veterans' Administration. These Federal medical activities now warrant, doctors argue, a Secretary of Health in the President's Cabinet, with an M. D. always in office. Nearest thing to such a post is the Assistant Secretaryship of the Treasury in charge of Public Health, which Josephine Roche has just resigned (TIME...
Last week's Federal excursion into Medicine was such, however, that orthodox private practitioners were outraged. For the benefit of 2,517 employes of the Federal Home Loan Bank board and affiliated agencies in Washington, that Federal institution financed a Group Health Association. This corporation hired a onetime executive of the Veterans' Administration, Dr. Henry Rolf Brown, and five other doctors, and last week started to give its members virtually every sort of medical, surgical, nursing and hospital care they might need.* Its fee (cash in advance) : $2.20 per month for unmarried persons, $3.30 for married couples...
Lobbyists of the A. M. A. cried: "Physicians who sell their services to an organization like Group Health Association for resale to patients are certain to lose professional status. The probable results on the medical profession of the successful operation in the District of Columbia of a single organization such as Group Health Association cannot be estimated...
This department is concerned directly with the problems of State and Municipal sanitation, such as water supply and waste disposal, and in cooperation with the Harvard School of Public Health also considers the problems arising in industrial sanitation, particularly with sanitary air control...
...these, 23 are on leave of absence from the Public Health Departments of various states and foreign countries, including Mexico, Poland, and Turkey, and 2 Professors on leave of absence from other universities...