Word: hygienists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...welfare of the 2,000,000 women factory workers† held the convention's interest. Illinois' Industrial Hygienist Milton Henry Kronenberg reminded his colleagues that women "are less resistant to dust, fumes and gases [than men], more susceptible to poisons, monotony and fatigue. . . . Married women are a particular problem. The stillbirth percentage is greater among factory workers. Infant mortality is higher. Abortions are higher." His recommendation to prevent all this: pre-employment physical examinations, followed by frequent periodic checkups, prohibiting females in employments involving exposure to lead and benzol; proper seating, with back rests; prohibiting women from working...
...capable physicians for treatment, tells no tales. Its head is friendly, boyish-looking Dr. Arlie Vernon Bock, who thinks that the old compulsory hygiene course at Harvard (known to undergraduates as Smut 1) is well buried, that more hygiene can be taught by "daily contacts with the men." Hygienist Bock's chief worry is not the indiscreet ardor of Harvardmen (less than 1% of whom contract venereal disease) but "Harvard indifference toward human personality...
...DEATH RIDES WITH VENUS-Arthur C. aim, social-hygienist-Grey stone (Manhattan...
History of Propaganda. The tidal wave of propaganda against venereal diseases began on the Atlantic Coast, in the offices of Surgeon General Parran in Washington and Social Hygienist Snow in Manhattan. But in a sense the wave may be considered a tremendous backwash from California. At Palo Alto and San Francisco in the late 1890s, stubby little William Freeman Snow and tall, lanky Ray Lyman Wilbur were undergraduates (with Herbert Hoover), medical students, later professors together. Dr. Wilbur became (1911) Dean of Stanford University's medical school. Dr. Snow went East, organized and became (1914) general director...
...Rice, Dr. Parran and every other responsible social hygienist in the country admit that they cannot strike their enemy dead unless they first demolish the social custom which forbids public discussion of venereal diseases. Nowhere is this taboo more rigidly enforced than on the screen or in radio. Cinema producers are well aware that any reference to the subject, regardless of good motives or public purpose, will only make trouble for themselves. Columbia Broadcasting will not permit the word "syphilis" to go out over the air from its stations. National Broad casting this year gingerly permitted Dr. Parran...