Word: sicked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid through the Park Service. For three-and-a-half years Clerk Stitely led a more abundant life, collected 1,116 checks totaling $84,000. Once, in a burst of generosity, he gave two of his imaginary foremen raises. Now & then he put one of them on the sick list...
...workers, showing how sick the people of the U. S. actually are. From the health and economic records of 2,660,000 individuals living in every part of the U. S. and every type of community, of every economic level of society and every age group, Surgeon General Parran prepared a preliminary report, which he communicated last week to State and local health officers for their information & guidance. Presuming as he did that the 130,000,000 inhabitants of the U. S. went through just what the 2,660,000 did, then...
...Every day one out of 20 people is too sick to go to school or work, or attend his customary activities...
...Harvard. She hopes that this will elevate the standards of journalism in the United States. We do, too, but we're afraid that the plan has its drawbacks. For one thing, newspapermen as a class don't get leaves of absence. They either get fired or they take sick and die. For another thing, she has picked the wrong the kind of people to go to Harvard reporters, editorial writers, special writers. Obviously the people who could use a spell at Harvard are the publishers of papers, not the employees. Go into any newspaper office and you'll find...
...populous New York State there are 38,000 trained nurses, graduates of accredited schools, who have licenses to practice. There are some 42,000 unclassified and unlicensed nurses. Most of these latter are competent, well-meaning "practical nurses" who have had some experience in caring for the sick and can help around the house. Some, however, are graduates of unaccredited schools, including "correspondence schools." A few are ignorant, crafty persons who pass themselves off as trained nurses. The pres-ent State law does not forbid unlicensed nurses to practice, or define the practice of nursing generally, or forbid unaccredited schools...