Word: health
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public Servant. Duggan had been in ill health. The family said that he was overworked, had once suffered from ulcers, and still had a weak stomach; he sometimes felt nausea and the need for fresh air. Furthermore, he had not yet fully recovered from a delicate operation for the removal of a spinal disc performed last fall...
Ingrid Bergman, who has credited her ruddy good health to a liking for "Baltic herrings and sour milk," got the kind of Christmas present that was obviously just what she wanted: a whole barrel of Baltic herrings, a gift from the Swedish fishery union...
...Parliament, Britain's blustering Minister of Health Aneurin ("Nye") Bevan got called to personal account for the high cost of socialized dentistry. Demanded M.P. Frank Medlicott: "Has the minister calculated how much of the greatly increased expenditure is caused by the fact that every time he makes a speech there is widespread gnashing of teeth...
...Most Californians blamed the unusually warm weather, pointed to a drop in cases after the arrival of cold rains and frosty mornings. But public health officials in Washington doubted the weather explanation. California wasn't the only state with loitering polio. North Carolina reported 24 new cases in the week ending Dec. 11 (last year there were five in the comparable week; in 1946, two). Cases went up, too, in Texas, Georgia, Minnesota, Iowa...
...matter what the explanation, the 1948 epidemic would go down in the official statistics as one of the worst in history. Through Dec. 11, the U.S. Public Health Service had received reports of 27,032 cases, close to the alltime record of 27,363 cases (from a smaller population) for the full year 1916. But was it really as bad as it looked? The experts were not sure. Diagnosis and reporting of polio are better than they used to be: years ago doctors recognized only cases that resulted in paralysis; now they can often spot the milder cases that used...