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Massachusetts Health Officials Emphasize Alcoholism Control
At a convention of state health boards in Massachusetts Dr. Charles W. Eliot urged stronger treatment of alcoholism and critique of police and courts handling alcoholics. Governor Walsh highlighted infant mortality with 13 661 deaths of children under six in 1913 and called for mother education and health education organization statewide.
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Boards of Health
Charles W. Eliot
Eliot
Public Health Officials
Massachusetts Association of Boards of Health
Walsh
Allan J. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Fisher
M. J. Rosenau
Association
Eugene R. Kelley
State Department of Health
Kelley
State Department
Theodore Roosevelt
Billy Sunday
Pasteur
Lyman A. Jones
Berkshire
John
Hitchcock
Adam 8. McKnight
Massachusetts
Samuel H. Durgin
Edward Reynolds
Francis G. Curtis
Newton
William Hall Coon