Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chicago Tribune lugubriously pointed out that if prohibition will sacrifice health needs to the mere possibility of using a distasteful tonic as beer, the end of the matter might well be the prohibition of the raising of grain, fruit. Simultaneously wise Mark Sullivan (political critic) suggested that the eastern wets were all wrong in advocating "beer and wine" because in the West beer is dreaded as much as anything. The reason for the dread is that beer is associated with saloons. For it was brewers like Pabst and AnheuserBusch who monopolized the saloon business, controlled the licenses, exerted through...
...Night Session. Right honorable members of the House of Commons indulged in antics last week which seriously weakened the popular myth that Britons are a stolid and decorous race. The Government had announced its intention of jamming through a bill empowering it to cut down disbursements to the health insurance fund; and a certain arrogance manifested by Mr. Neville Chamberlain,* the Minister of Health, roused the Opposition leaders to obstructionist tactics which rapidly degenerated into low comedy...
...Much Smallpox. Much less puzzling is the smallpox situation, covered for 1925 by the U. S. Public Health Reports, available last week for study. Formerly thousands died or were disfigured annually by smallpox. Now many a physician has never seen a case. Such improvement is certainly due to the efficacy of vaccination.* Yet in 1923 there were 21,233 smallpox cases reported; the next year 43,029 (103% increase); and last year 31,037 (decrease of 28% from 1924; increase of 46% from 1923). The analysis of this smallpox situation is extremely curt: the public has become lethargic to preventive...
Rapid Blood Tests. The careful Wassermann blood test for syphilis requires five reagents and almost 24 hours' reacting time, an inconvenience to the diagnostician and a nerve-racking wait for the patient. Dr. R. le Kahn of the Michigan State Health Department demonstrated a new test which requires only one reagent and 15 minutes to show definitely the blood condition. His department and the U. S. Navy have adopted his quick method, it was said...
Needless Antitoxin. Antitoxin against scarlet fever has kept people from catching the disease in several widely scattered U. S. cities where tests were made, reported Dr. John F. Anderson of New Brunswick, N. J. But Dr. William H. Park of the New York City Health Department amended the optimism by pointing out that scarlet fever is not highly contagious, that the antitoxin should be administered to cure, not needlessly to prevent...