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Surgeon General Thomas Parran begged farmers to stop throwing "one of the most valuable foods - dried skim milk" - to the pigs. In fact, he said, "we have given our livestock the best part of many foods." Other experts urged that more dried eggs be produced, that farm lands be devoted to mass cultivation of vitamin-rich peanuts and soybeans...
...faces the possibility of a serious shortage of doctors. So said, last week, a man who should know-Thomas Parran, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service. At present, there are about 160,000 practicing physicians throughout the country. If the U.S. enters the war, the Army will need at least 40,000. Only 5,000-odd doctors graduate from medical schools each June...
Soldiers. In 1917, the Army rarely used chest X-rays in examining recruits. This mistake cost taxpayers one billion dollars for the care of tuberculous veterans. But the Army is slow to learn. Said Surgeon General Thomas Parran last week: "Only in a few fortunate localities, typically the large cities, are X-rays to detect tuberculosis included in the examination...
There was no division about U. S. desire to send food to Britain. Last week at his press conference, President Roosevelt announced that he was working out a program with Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard and Surgeon General Thomas Parran (just back from England), covering Britain's food needs and U. S. ability to supply them. At the Department of Agriculture, experts pointed to U. S. grain reserves (greatest in history), to stocks of fats, oils, hay, meat supplies. If food was a weapon, the U. S. was well armed. Question was: Could the U. S. use this weapon...
...soldiers ever have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand to immunize a single regiment...