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The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), The health of Cambridge. (search)
The health of Cambridge. Henry P. Walcott, M. D., Chairman of the Massachusetts Board of Health. The health of the city of Cambridge is not a matter of guesswork, but stands accurately recorded in the pages of the registration reports of the State and in the successive volumes of the Census of the United States. Of the diseases which prevailed here before the first registration report in 1841, we know but little. When some disease broke out in the form of an epidemic—like smallpox, the dysentery, or malignant sore-throat, we find contemporary records perhaps of the numbers of those dying from these diseases, but more than this we cannot now ascertain. The situation seems to have been always considered a healthful one, however, notwithstanding the large area of low-lying land in the town itself and in the surrounding country. It would be supposed, probably, by most people, that the conditions of health in Cambridge and the neighboring city of Boston would be essentiall
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Physical Training. (search)
like so many furnaces where human lives are consumed like coal to meet the demands of our civilization, the question of how to conserve life and add to its capacity for health and enjoyment is rapidly growing in importance. Perhaps no community has taken hold of this subject with a more comprehensive grasp than the one in which we live. Cambridge may be said to be the very centre of growth in municipal health and individual hygiene in America. See chapter on Health in Cambridge, by H. P. Walcott, M. D.—Ed-Itor. The effects of a sedentary life, and the close confinement necessarily accompanying the intellectual efforts of the students, must have drawn the attention of the college authorities to the matter of health preservation at an early period in its history, although we have no record of any practical effort in this direction until the first quarter of the present century. It is interesting to observe that whatever efforts are made by the college towards the maintenance
The Cambridge of eighteen hundred and ninety-six: a picture of the city and its industries fifty years after its incorporation (ed. Arthur Gilman), Cambridge clubs. (search)
ical, literary, scientific, and social tastes of its people are fully provided for. Among those organized for social purposes, the most unique, perhaps, is the colonial Club, which combines both town and gown; for the professor in the university and the business man of the city are included in its membership. This club was organized in 1890 by J. J. Myers (its promoter), Charles W. Eliot, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Henry H. Gilmore, Alvin F. Sortwell, J. G. Thorp, Chester W. Kingsley, Henry P. Walcott, William A. Munroe, Charles J. Mclntire, Daniel U. Chamberlin, Edmund Reardon, and Edmund A. Whitman. The Henry James house, No. 20 Quincy Street, was purchased immediately after organization, and in 1892 it was entirely remodeled, and a very large addition made to it. It has the conveniences of a modern club-house, which include reading and card rooms, library, dining-rooms for members, as well as for ladies, assembly hall, bedrooms, billiard-rooms, and bowling-alleys. The member