Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Eliot was the first speaker. He said that the objections to the dam had come from small groups of persons representing comparatively insignificant interests. The principle reason for erecting the dam is to promote the health and happiness of the 400,000 people who live within easy walking distance of the seven mile park that would probably follow its erection. Furthermore, the construction of the dam is necessary to the proper sanitation of the valley below Watertown, because great areas of the river bottom are often left exposed at low water...
...John S. Blake said that he thought he represented the sentiment of the medical men of the Back Bay in insisting that something ought to be done to improve the health conditions of the basin, and that the dam is the best means of accomplishing this purpose. Mr. J. M. McClintock, an engineer, showed the value of the dam in improving the present bad condition of the the sewage system...
...years, Mittelbach has become meek and yields to every whim of his parents-in-law. The strain has worn on his nerves, so that he is very near a state of collapse, when his doctor kindly prescribes a journey for his health. Here Mittelbach sees an opportunity to get away from the parents, and to be left alone with his wife whom he adores. The senator, however, decides that he himself will go with the invalid...
John Joseph Hayes, instructor in elocution at Harvard from 1886 to 1899, died of paralysis in Milton at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, aged forty-six. Ill health compelled him to give up his work here three years ago, and he had not been well since...
...meeting of the Charles River Dam Commission yesterday morning, the effect of the construction of the proposed dam on the public health was considered. Reports on the subject were made by H. H. Goodenough of the State Board of Health, Assistant Engineer C. B. Putnam of the Boston Park Department and W. F. Learned, town engineer of Watertown. These reports showed that the public health would not be menaced by the construction of the dam, in spite of the fact that a large amount of sewage is poured into the Charles River daily. Following the reports, the Committee proposed...