Word: parran
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Flexner put Dr. Park's statement aside as merely representing an opinion. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., State commissioner of health, sensing a controversy, protected himself thus: "In the absence of any better known method of combating infantile paralysis, the New York State Department of Health will continue to recommend the use of human serum unless its usefulness should be completely disproved...
...wisdom of keeping children out of school during an infectious epidemic, as of infantile paralysis, last week struck Dr. Thomas Parran, New York State Commissioner of Health, as poor. His advice: "In the school there is the opportunity for careful observation of the children to detect any signs of illness. Our observations have indicated, moreover, that a great majority of children are not being kept on their own premises or restricted as to attendance at other places of public assemblage. Next to their own home and yard, I believe the school is the safest place for children...
...worked in New England and Pennsylvania, as well as in Virginia. Governor Pollard had no trouble obtaining his services for Virginia. Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming of the U. S. Public Health Service is also a Virginian, and such an assignment was not without precedent. Dr. Thomas Parran Jr., another Assistant Surgeon General, has been New York State's Health Commissioner the past year, at request of Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In the past, Massachusetts, New Mexico, Hawaii, Milwaukee, Chicago, also Peru, Ecuador* and other foreign countries, have similarly gone to the Government for medical help...
...Burton Thorn Simpson, 58, the rotund, chubby director of the New York State Institute for the Study of Malignant Disease at Buffalo, spoke for himself and for Dr. Thomas Parran, State Commissioner of health. Dr. Simpson agreed with the other Easterners...