Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another British puppet, paradoxically more potent than his elder brother Amir Abdullah, is King Feisul of Irak, inventor of a special headdress named after him. Of all the Arab lands in the Near East, melancholy King Feisul's seemed the least perturbed about Jews, though one band of Iraki tribesmen were said to be making their way secretly to Palestine...
...China and Russia of the Chinese Eastern Railway shall be restored on the basis of the Sino-Russian Treaty of 1924. 3) Soviet employes on the road shall in future respect an injunction against propaganda contained in the treaty. 4) Issues still outstanding shall be settled by a special plenary conference...
Because the profession as well as the laity has a fuzzy conception of what a chronic disease is, there exist only two special private hospitals for chronic diseases in the U. S.-Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in New York City and Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston. Last week the recently resigned medical director of Montefiore, Dr. Ernst Philip Boas and his chief assistant published a meaty, precise book on the subject.* Special hospitals exist for insane and tuberculous chronics, but no hospitals, except at New York and Boston, for the vast number of those otherwise affected. The great...
...Boas urges that all.large communities establish special chronic disease hospitals, that states create them in rural districts. Precise-minded, he specifies that such hospitals should have connecting pavilions for the three types of chronics, 1) patients requiring medical care for diagnosis and treatment, 2) patients requiring chiefly skilled nursing care, 3) patients requiring only custodial care. As a patient improves or declines he can be shifted to where he gets specific treatment. As for the smaller details, every three patients should have two wheel chairs at their disposal. Preferably not more than two should occupy a room. They should have...
Deaf & Blind. In a theatre on the 50th floor of the Chanin Building, Manhattan, 100 people, some totally blind, some deaf, sat in their seats while Bulldog Drummond was projected on the screen and played on the recording machine. The deaf "listened" through special earphones; a lecturer with a cultured voice explained the action to the blind. The deaf got the most excited, the blind laughed most at funny parts; all applauded at the end, then went home to their respective silence, darkness...