Word: overcrowdedness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Medical Heroes. Both tropical and military medicine, said Dr. Mackie, began with Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War. In 1854 that determined British spinster took a handful of nurses to Scutari, cleaned up the filthy, stinking, overcrowded hospitals, organized a system of sanitary supplies, bathed, clothed and fed the thousands...
It was the end of Oppenheim's free life. But it makes a memorable last section to his book. The Oppenheims had a chance to leave France on the overcrowded, death-ridden ship Somerset Maugham described in his Strictly Personal. They left via Spain. The crawling trains were crammed...
There may be, undoubtedly are, a few people of the kind the President described. But few Washingtonians could visualize them. Who, if he did not have to, would voluntarily live in the city that is now the most overcrowded and least comfortable in the U.S.?
With the Christmas oasis out of the way, Harvard is settling down to the serious business of organizing its defense and wartime services on a duration basis. The PBH-Student Council Defense Service Committee, centered at Dean Chauncey's clearing-house in University Hall, will attempt to make unaroused Harvardmen...
Yet rheumatic heart disease, which smolders in slum districts and overcrowded tenements does not get a fraction of the publicity given to cancer or tuberculosis.