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...result of this conference," Crane said, "the University contributed a $10,000 X-ray unit to the City Hospital and denated a large number of unneeded books to libraries and schools. The President also agreed to keep the doors of University museums open to the public...
...been conducting a painstaking county-by-county survey of hospital facilities in the 48 States. On his desk last week were blueprints of neat little one-story hospitals, some of wood, others of brick and adobe, each planned to house 100 beds. Estimated cost: $150,000 apiece, including X-ray equipment, surgical instruments, laboratory machinery, everything but bed linen...
...matter where the 250,000 nomads wander, 100 nurses and doctors of the California State Board of Health pursue them in shiny station wagons, inoculate them against typhoid and smallpox, take X-ray pictures of their lungs, give them Wassermann tests and treatment for syphilis. In 1939, reported State Health Director Walter Murray Dickie last fortnight, there were no first-class epidemics among the "Okies," although there were 696 cases of smallpox, 280 of malaria. Strangely enough the incidence of venereal disease among the migrants is lower than among native Californians, and they have relatively little tuberculosis. Greatest plague: dietary...
...family charge of $4. In addition, heads of families must pay a $3 initiation fee, an extra dollar for the first four home calls, an extra $25 for obstetrical care, 50? a month for infant care. Benefits include medical examinations, complete medical and surgical care, "preventive care," laboratory tests, X-ray study. Not included: hospital service, medicines, nursing, medical appliances, treatment for alcoholics, radium for cancer. Subscribers who wish cheap hospital care can also join Boston's "3? a day" Associated Hospital Service, an independent organization...
...preamble of the resolution, the Council suggested that a precedent for the gift of land lies in Harvard's recent donation and maintenance of an X-ray machine at the Municipal Hospital, which shows that the University is "willing to cooperate with the city on matters concerning the health, welfare, and general improvements of Cambridge...