Word: healthful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beginning to be regarded as certain that several of these couples at least would be dancing until after the election when an untoward event occurred. Health officials, who had hitherto been unable to discover any evidence of physical injury to participants, heard rumors of an internal hemorrhage, suffered, in Wilkesbarre, Pa., by a onetime contestant, a week after he had resigned from the marathon. With this as evidence they commanded Promoter Crandall to stop his marathon. Half an hour before the time set for foreclosure, Promoter Crandall mounted the rostrum in Madison Square Garden, made an eloquent and graceful speech...
...Brush Jr., who died last year. Its income is "to finance efforts contributing toward the betterment of the human stock and toward the regulation of the increase of population, to the end that children shall be begotten only under conditions which make possible a heritage of mental and physical health, and a favorable environment...
Francis' Disease. Dr. Edward Francis, U. S. Public Health Service, Washington, D. C., told his astonished audience the facts of tularemia (TIME, July 23, 1923). Long known as "rabbit fever" among land-workers for its annual toll of thousands of rabbits and ground squirrels, this disease has been recognized as dangerous to man only in the last three years. Discovered in Tulare County, Calif. (1910), it was named tularemia. The germ in man was identified by Public Heath Server Francis in 1925, and the disease is known among the profession as "Francis' disease." Peering through microscope, poring over...
Midwives still live and thrive in rural districts, announced Dr. Joe P. Bowdoin of the Georgia Board of Health. Many counties in Georgia have no physicians. Of the 65,000 babies born in 1927, about one-third were delivered by midwives, most of whom were old, ignorant, superstitious Negroes. Dr. Bowdoin told of the health board's work in instructing and certifying the 5,000 midwives, accompanied by a gratifying drop in deaths from childbirth...
Donald Leslie Augustine, Assistant Professor of Helminthology. In 1923 he was Director of the Field Research Unit of the International Health Board in Andelusia, Alabama...