Word: healthfully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curiously (and unfortunately for his spiritual health), the Fundamentalist is the first to rush into argument. He is the aggressor because he feels, with considerable justification, that the Modernist should get out of the old church; but he can only be ousted by being haled before an ecclesiastical court...
Fifty-one and six-tenths cents per capita is what the average American city of 100,000 population or more spends on health-that is, for strictly defined health services, and not including hospitals, morgues, sewerage and sewage disposal, garbage and refuse disposal.* It lavishes $6.11 on education, $1.88 on highways, $1.56 on fire prevention, $1.28 on police protection. And this expenditure for health purposes, parsimonious though it looks, increased 95% on the average between 1910 and 1920, according to a 10-year analysis of the health department budgets of 83 cities (including the 68 with a population of over...
...survey of health department expenditures showed that every city in the list increased its budget between 1910 and 1920. In 24 cities the increase was over 100%. In Milwaukee it was 343%. The greatest average increase was made by cities of 250,000 to 500,000. The per capita expenditures for 1920 ranged from 104.9 cents (Bridgeport) to 11.9 (Scranton). One-half of the cities spent less than 43.9 cents per capita. Twenty-seven cities spent more than the average. They were: Bridgeport 104.9 Memphis...
...These functions are, of course, essential to public welfare, but should not legitimately be charged against a modern health department. Its activities should embrace control of communicable diseases, tuberculosis, and venereal diseases, infant welfare, school hygiene, public health nursing, laboratories, food inspection, sanitary inspection, vital statistics, public health education and administration. The organization of these activities varies with different cities. School health supervision, for instance, is administered by the boards of education in many cities...
...School of Public Health C. K. Drinker, formerly associate professor, has been promoted to a full professorship of physiology...