Harvard School of Public Health - Yearbook (Cambridge, MA)

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ADVANCED SEMINAR IN BIOSTATISTICS, STUDENTS AND STAFF. DEPARTMENTS AT WORK DR. MURRAY IN MICROBIOLOGY LABORATORY. DR. WHITTENBERGER AND POLIO PATIENT. DR. HEGSTED IN NUTRITION LABORA¬ TORY.

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PROFESSOR DRINKER INDUSTRIAL HYGI ENE Free air space and clean, ivith high stacks and a Captain’s wind. Editor T HE Industrial Hygiene Department began a series of lectures starting with hot air and ending with accidents. Prof. Yaglou, with a rare savoir-faire in teaching such a mixed group, gave us a clear picture of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning. Prof. Drinker’s talks on dank and dusty industrial hazards, followed by the student seminars on smog and the nuclear reactor, brought home some of the acute public health problems resulting from modern living. After illumination by Prof. Silverman, Prof. Williams sounded off on the damaging effects of noise. That man’s hopes and fate lie in the control of the atom was Mr. Small’s theme. After Prof. McFarland’s lecture, passing the course became purely accidental. Perhaps there was such a thing as safety in numbers” for the entire class of M.P.H. candidates who took this required half course in Industrial Hygiene. Such was not the case, however, with the industrial and aviation medics who carried on through the year with Prof. McFarland and Dr. McCahan. For those space cadets who were plied with mental and physical foods from the McFarland Fresh Pond five-foot shelf, the outward and inward pressures were occasionally equalized. Others were bombarded with radio isotopes by Dr. Warren at the Deaconess, mortified by Dr. Ford at the Medical School, and introduced to clinical problems at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Through these experi¬ ences and exploits, we were sensitized to the hazards and intricacies of integrating an industrial medical program in an American community. Standing (left to right) WIL¬ LIAMS, SMALL, SILVERMAN, McFarland, oconnor. Seated (left to right) YAGLOU, DRINKER.

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SEMINAR IN SUPERVISION WITH MRS. DANA, MEDICAL SOCIAL WORKER OF BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL. AVIATION HEALTH AND SAFETY WITH PROF. McFarland. PREPARATION OF ANTI¬ TOXIC SERUM, DR. IPSEN. INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE WITH DR. McCAHAN.