HEALTHIER STUDENTS
State health authorities say they believe that Illinois college freshmen are .bigger and better last year than freshmen were twenty years ago. The State Health Department reports that men enrolling in the State's universities in 1938 averaged two inches taller than 1918 enrollees, and women were one inch taller. Dr. Howard J. Beard, health' officer at the University of Illinois, reported that typhoid fever was nine times more frequent in health histories of the class of 1921 than in the class of 1938; tuberculosis was three times as frequent and diphtheria twice as frequent.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 4
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96HEALTHIER STUDENTS Evening Post, Volume CXXVIII, Issue 30, 4 August 1939, Page 4
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