National Center for Health Statistics

One would hardly expect Documents and Committee Report, Series 4, Number 15, of the National Center for Health Statistics (Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Publication No. [HRA] 74–1452) to start off with poetry — more specifically with a quotation from Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Huntsman, What Quarry?"1 But that is exactly what happened recently, and it is hard to imagine a more apt quotation — apt not only for the Report but also for the entire world's endeavor to comprehend and deal with the multiple problems of health."Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour, Rains from the . . .