Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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There are many distinct departments of the work, which naturally deserve separate treatment. The total number of Settlement Houses which have been assisted by Harvard men is 39, an increase of 3 over last year...
...committee, consisting of M. J. Murray, chairman, Q. H. Neff, W. R. Peabody '95, E. E. Southard '97, and E. O. Childs Jr., '99, was authorized to make thorough investigation of conditions of inebriety and the state's methods of treatment therefor, and to make such recommendations as were needed for making the appropriate legislation...
...directly feasible, and the commission's proposals chiefly had to do with the enforcement of existing laws, amendments to existing statutes, and with the training of public opinion by temperance instruction in the schools. In summing up the report, it was submitted that mere imprisonment is an inadequate treatment for inebriety, that it is greatly desirable that habitual drunkenness be no longer considered as a crime, but as a form of disease, and that accordingly the state should adopt an immediate substitution of the hospital for the prison. These suggestions the legislature is considering now and it is probable that...
...This treatment of walls and ceilings to eliminate noise, however, has passed the experimental stage. Besides the Chicago offices, there are at least seven other similar installations--to say nothing of the theatres, churches and courtrooms where hearing conditions were bad until enough absorbing material was introduced to correct them. Correcting the acoustics of a theatre is a parallel operation to eliminating noises in an office; in both cases it is the echoes or reverberations which make the trouble and which must be destroyed...
...large, single, office rooms, the ceilings and walls of which are treated with the new material. The great problem of excessive office noise as an important factor against office efficiency and costs has been solved. Dean Sabine has shown that noise can be controlled and reduced by scientific treatment...