Word: parran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...instigation of China and Brazil (and of ex-U.S. Secretary of State Hull), 17 nations have approved the idea of a new international health organization. Last week 30 U.S. citizens-including Surgeon General Thomas Parran, Mrs. La Fell Dickinson, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, and Dr. Victor Heiser of the National Association of Manufacturers-met to talk over what the U.S. wants the organization to be. The talks will serve as preparation for an international conference to be held, probably, next spring...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran last week made his annual report to Congress on the state of the nation's health, which the U.S. Public Health Service during the last year spent $115,000,000 trying to better. Some particulars...
...Advertising Council last fortnight withdrew its support from Surgeon General Thomas Parran's campaign against venereal disease. The council is a nonprofit organization of advertising men which prepares the publicity and posters for such drives as WAC recruiting and war bonds. It helped the venereal disease cam paign at the request of OWI and the U.S. Public Health Service. It stopped cooperating at the request of conservative groups of Roman Catholics. (Surgeon General Parran is himself a Catholic...
...Question of Health. Nevertheless, the Surgeon General's campaign went on. The War Advertising Council's prepared advertisements may still be used-in local if not national publicity. Declared Surgeon General Parran: "These educational efforts have been increasingly successful. Reversing all previous wartime experience, present infection rates in the United States are at an alltime...
...Water. Because Surgeon General Thomas Parran believes that much of the 60% increase in dysentery can be blamed on food handlers (even typhoid can be caused by dirty dishes), and because the wartime shortage of help has increased the dirty-dish menace, the Public Health Service is advising U.S. cities to provide courses in dishwashing methods. Even with a good dishwashing machine, an "intelligent dishwasher" is needed: e.g., the water in the machine must not get too cold or the dishes will have a higher bacteria count than they had to begin with; if it gets too hot, it will...