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Harry R. DeSilva, head of driver training in the Bureau for Street Traffic Research, having supervised scientific driver tests on several control groups of 500 men apiece, reported yesterday that a 90 percent reduction in the accidents of his subjects had been shown after exhaustive clinic tests had been conducted in seventeen states...
Those drivers who received what Dr. DeSilva termed "generalized safety instruction" produced only a 60 percent accident reduction, thus demonstrating conclusively to the Bureau the effectiveness of scientific tests, as compared to the less specific training given to other control groups...
...percent reduction was found after a check was made of 500 repeaters who had taken the Bureau's tests. Another "general instruction" group of 500 showed a 66 percent decrease in accidents...
Kept ignorant of their chief's deal with the social service center, that 30 percent of the earnings be turned over to the annual's sponsors, the committeeman, speaking for his seven penniless colleagues, said, "If they kick it back to P. B. H. we wouldn't yell. The idea of his making a clean-up stirs us to protest...
Despite the appalling statistics which Surgeon General Thomas Parran has released for the country at large, venereal diseases at Harvard constitute the Hygiene Department's smallest worry. Less than five one-hundredths of one percent of the student body are annually afflicted with syphilis; and the figure for gonorrhea, more prevalent in this part of the country, is well under one percent. Contrary to an impression created this fall, the Hygiene Department has set up no special department to care for cases of this sort. They are handled in a routine way, the doctors making the diagnoses and offering...