Word: health
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Says You: "Every 99 women out of a 100 have, or think they have, a bosom problem. . . . Stop thinking of your bosom as an isolated problem. Instead think of it in relation to your general health and well being. . . . An adept masseuse may treat your bosom without causing injury but you might better have spent your time and money on a merry-go-round. . . . Freak diets which cause rapid reduction ravage the bosom. . . . If your breasts are out of fashion today, they may be in fashion tomorrow...
...concept that has been up to this time a fundamental part of our democratic social order, but has escaped general notice in the emphasis on other phases of our political and economic problems. That principle is is that one of the functions of government is to look after the health of its citizens. It is obvious, when one stops to think of the contagious diseases--typhoid fever, dyptheria, and the like--which twenty years ago held the population in their grip, and which now are rare occurrences, how much public health services and public hospitals have contributed to stamping...
...proposals, which were released in New York on Sunday, proceed from the principles that 'the health of the people is a direct concern of the government," that a national public health policy for all the population should be formulated, and that the four groups concerned with giving medical care are the federal, state, and local governments, and private organizations...
Looking forward toward the federal government for larger control of public health in the future, the physicians also stress the need for a reorganization of existing federal medical agencies under a single bureau in the governmental heirarchy, and that in planning out future developments in this field the work be put in the hands of experts...
...Cannon also pointed out that there was nothing revolutionary in the proposals for governmental aid to medical education and research, since states and cities now operate medical schools and contribute to advance study through hospitals, laboratories, and health services...