Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Children, as well as adults, may suffer nervous breakdowns. Overwork does not cause them, although it may precipitate an attack. There is nothing in the popular idea that only the wealthy have breakdowns. Nothing has yet been definitely established as to the role of heredity in causing neuroses. In general more highly developed personalities tend to develop neurotic quirks, more primitive personalities to go really crazy. Small-town and farm people are as prone to have breakdowns as are big city people. The Depression, except for increasing the U. S. suicide rate, has so far caused no striking increase...
...half million children, to again quote Dr. Frank, "found the door to educational advantage slammed in their faces." Where struggling communities maintain some parts of their school system, teachers labor with greatly augmented classes, due to unemployment conditions. Although their efficiency is impaired in every way, including overwork and cuts in meagre salaries, the teachers of the country have shown a courageous and public-spirited attitude, even providing lunches for penniless children as well as assuming many burdens co-existent with their school activities...
...speech when he felt able, despite a parliamentary rule to the effect that no delegate can speak twice on the same subject. But Dr. Beale spoke no more, explaining later that he had suffered "constriction of the throat." Said he: "I am deeply humiliated that long continued sleeplessness and overwork made me physically unable to continue my speech." For all their respect for Dr. Beale, most of the Deputies did not like his proposal...
Working as free lances, financially insecure, alternating between overwork and underwork, with most of their "free time" spent waiting anxiously for a phone call to notify them of their next assignment, these private or special nurses are willing to reduce their own salary (in New York from about $7 a day to $5) in order to spread employment, have more actual days' work, have a chance to live like other people and rest after eight hours on duty...
...leucemia victim grows anemic, dies. The same bedside picture follows chronic lymphatic leucemia. But here the lymph system is in a rage of activity and smothers other vital processes. The acute form of the disease is explosive. Policemen cells apparently on regular duty suddenly become riotous. Lymph and marrow overwork furiously. Acute cases die within three months whereas the chronic forms last from six months to four or five years. Sunlight, x-ray treatments, arsenic dosage may prolong the leucemic's life. Cause of the disease is undetermined. Some physicians think that it is the result of a tumor...