Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White-haired Colonel Samuel D. Avery, the Canal Zone's chief health officer, had watched jungle yellow fever (the same old yellow jack except that monkeys and rodents as well as mosquitoes carry it) move toward Panama from the Brazilian Amazon. He knew that it had been spotted in the jungles east of the Canal. Now he ordered 75,000 doses of yellow-fever vaccine by B-29 from a Hamilton, Mont, laboratory. Spraying and draining and elimination of Aëdes breeding grounds were stepped up to the old Gorgas pace...
...Much Alcohol. No pious bluenose, Hirsh is a hardbitten, 34-year-old health administrator who has spent nearly twelve years studying drinkers. He has worked for the U.S. Public Health Service, the World Health Organization, the Research Council on Problems of Alcohol and as chief of preventive medicine for the Twelfth Air Force in Italy. He does not denounce alcohol as the root of all evils. Says he: "Traffic accidents, crime, promiscuity and divorce go deeper and far beyond alcohol...
...Camp des Alpes-Maritimes, Inc., now in its second year, is looking for five persons to care for poor and undernourished French children during vacation. For this summer the group will all but adopt 120 children in order to restore their health...
Three appointments to the faculty of the School of Public Health were announced yesterday by Dean James S. Simmons...
...William M. Schmidt was named associate professor of maternal and child health, Dr. Alfred L. Frechette was promoted from instructor to assistant professor of public health practice, and Dr. Charles R. Williams was raised from instructor to assistant professor of industrial hygiene...