Word: health
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Massachusetts Department of Public Health will hold public hearings on air quality standards on Tuesday, November 25, and the coalition is attempting to gain public support for more stringent controls than those proposed by the department...
...four or five days, then you can act just as quickly against DDT," says Biologist Charles F. Wurster Jr. of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. "Besides, we are already down to 'essential' uses-and they are clearly unessential for human and environmental health standards...
...District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell -son of the late famous pediatrician Dr. Arnold Gesell-declared unconstitutional a 68-year-old Washington law that made it a crime for any doctor to perform an abortion except when "necessary for the preservation of the mother's life or health." Judge Gesell called on Congress to write "a far more scientific and appropriate statute" for the District of Columbia. And he made it clear that the capital's only public hospital must promptly liberalize its policy on therapeutic abortions so that the operations will be as available to the poor...
Presumed Guilty. In his decision, Gesell threw out an indictment against Dr. Milan Vuitch, who had been accused under the old statute of an illegal abortion. Gesell ruled that the law was too vague; he pointed out, for example, that it did not make clear whether "health" was meant to include varying degrees of mental as well as physical health. Moreover, said Gesell, a doctor indicted under the statute was "presumed guilty" unless he could prove to a jury that the operation was necessary. In the companion case of a nurse's aide named Shirley Boyd who had performed...
Visits to the University Health Services (UHS) Psychiatric Service dropped sharply last April the month of the occupation of University Hall...