Annual report . miscel-laneous accidents. STUDENT DEATHS I deeply regret to report that six students died during theyear. Of tnese three were suicides, one an automobile accident , onetue result of perforation of the appendix, and one Eodgkins students also died during the summer before they had an opportunityto return to school. The cause of death in one instance was strepto-coccemia and in the other meningitis. During the year the Medical Staff of the Health Service sufferrdan irreparable loss in the death of Dr. Vergil A. Ross who died suddenlyon August 26, 1935- He had been wit
Annual report . miscel-laneous accidents. STUDENT DEATHS I deeply regret to report that six students died during theyear. Of tnese three were suicides, one an automobile accident , onetue result of perforation of the appendix, and one Eodgkins students also died during the summer before they had an opportunityto return to school. The cause of death in one instance was strepto-coccemia and in the other meningitis. During the year the Medical Staff of the Health Service sufferrdan irreparable loss in the death of Dr. Vergil A. Ross who died suddenlyon August 26, 1935- He had been with the University for fourteen yearsand was beloved alike by the students and his colleagues. In his ser-vice to the University he was never known to do less then his best. TONSILSA study of the chart on the number of students per thousandexamined wiiose tonsils had been removed shows that there is an apparent NUMBER OF STUDENTS, PEE 1,000 EXAMINED ON ENTRANCE,WHOSE TONSILS HAD SEEN REMOVED 500— Uoo— 3oo 100. 200— oj OJ N r\ ^ ^ vfl s OJ OJ CVJ CM OJ CMOJ OJ OJ OJ OJ OJ to o> OJ OJ t III » » r— CO CX\ O r«t OJ oj oj (\i f^ m n 1^1 1^ 1^ Q r-l OJ l^k ^t ITv VDkS N\ k^ rCT\(T\(T\Cr\CACJ>Cr\Cr\iH iH r-< rH rH rH r-4 iHiHrHr-trHi-HrHHrH School Years Chart No. 13 • 50 -rising tide of pathological tonsils. In 1920-21, 79 students per thou-sand had their tonsils removed; in 1935-36 %im rate was 512 per such findings indicate a massacre of the tonsils, it seems thatMother Nature has not properly developed the huuan throat to meet the de-mands of a complex civilization, that alert parents have discovered thisfact, and that modern medicine is coming to their rescue with scientifictho roughne s s. INJURIES OF CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEES During the year employees of the University suffered 1U9 ac-cidents in the line of duty wnich is an increase o
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