Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Most Congressmen know Dr. Cumming personally. Few men are better known in Washington. When a telephone rings, and his soft voice asks something for his Public Health Service, he gets that something very quickly...
Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the Public Health Service, who guards the health of the nation's 120,000,000 people, made his annual accounting to Congress last week...
Neither here nor abroad were there any pandemic outbreaks of disease last year, and in no country with a modern public health organization did pestilences spread. India continues to harbor bubonic plague, as do French Indo-China, China, Algeria, Madagascar, Nigeria, Siam, Argentina, Ecuador, South Africa, Greece, Russia. Two people in California, however, caught bubonic plague last year-from ground squirrels...
Each year Dr. Cumming, who has been in the Public Health Service for more than 30 years and its surgeon general since Woodrow Wilson appointed him so in 1920, calls the health officers of all the states to a conference. Most of them attend and from his quiet, pointed talks get stamina to suppress disease within their districts. But six or seven states are so careless of their epidemiological work that their statistics are rarely considered in Dr. Cumming's survey of the nation's health. In the two score and more who habitually report, last year there...
...Cumming made a special point of telling Congress about the fundamental research the Public Health Service is making in various diseases-cancer, tuberculosis, goiter, leprosy, trachoma, undulant fever, typhus fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, pneumonia, venereal diseases...