Word: hospitalers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In London, where any temperature above 80° is called a heat wave, it was so hot last week that ten extra waiters were engaged to serve cooling drinks to perspiring legislators in the House of Commons terrace restaurant. A woman fainted from heat in a Gravesend bus and, as...
Manhandled. Shanghai's muddy, winding, sampan-littered Whangpoo River divides the big modern buildings of the International Settlement from the factory-stacks of Pootung. Among its grimy factories stands the British-owned China Printing & Finishing Co., a cotton mill where Chinese workers last week were on strike. Guarding the...
Special hospitals for Negro victims of T. B. are few and far between. Last winter the Federal Government gave Washington's Howard University for Negroes (Washington, D. C. is the Negro Paris) a WPA grant of $600,000 to build a T. B. clinic and hospital. Heartened by this...
> When the U. S. Public Health Service recently surveyed the health needs of 22,-000,000 rural dwellers in 1,340 scattered counties, it found that 55% of the counties, with a total population of 8,000,000, had no hospitals. Most of the hospitals in the remaining 45% were...
Last week an old man, fighting for breath, was wheeled into Chicago's Mercy Hospital. Five grave doctors hovered over his bed, took samples of his sputum to type the pneumococci that had attacked him, samples of his blood to type him for transfusions. They covered him with an...