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American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health 38.11 (1948): pp.1539-1550. online; Bordley, James, and A. McGehee Harvey. Two centuries of American medicine, 1776-1976 (1976). online; Bonner, Thomas N. The Kansas Doctor: A Century of Pioneering (Kansas UP, 1959) pp 120--171, argues Kansas was a national leader in public health in 1904 ...
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In the late 1920s, the women's specialties in health care included 294,000 trained nurses, 150,000 untrained nurses, 47,000 midwives, and 550,000 other hospital workers (most of them women). [ 17 ] Sandelowski finds that by 1900 physicians were allowing nurses to routinely use the thermometer and stethoscope , and in some cases even the new X ...
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1920 – First radio broadcasts, by KDKA in Pittsburgh and WWJ in Detroit; 1920 – Volstead Act; 1920 – Esch–Cummins Act; 1920 – Economy collapses. The Depression of 1920–21 begins. 1920 – National Football League is formed; 1920 – 1920 U.S. presidential election: Warren G. Harding elected president, and Calvin Coolidge vice president.
1920s: Culture Wars. As European economies recovered and the USA boomed in the wake of World War I, the number of Americans living in cities exceeded the number on farms for the first time.
After the American Civil War, the federal government established the first system of medical care in the South, known as the Freedmen's Bureau. The government constructed 40 hospitals, employed over 120 physicians, and treated well over one million sick and dying former slaves. The hospitals were short-lived, lasting from 1865 to 1870.
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