Word: beriberi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient Kabuki plays) are closed. Rationing is strict, and there is little for sale. Night workers, miners and Navy personnel are permitted to buy vitamins. A bottle of about 300 pills is sold to authorized people for about 40?. Health conditions are wretched. All diseases of malnutrition (like beriberi) are rampant. The tuberculosis rate has risen steeply. Malaria is a scourge, probably because of water-filled bomb craters in which mosquitoes breed and because of infected veterans returning from the South Pacific. Typhoid is widespread, probably because of bomb damage to water mains...
...have contracted any of the following diseases: athlete's foot, scurvy, beriberi, housemaid's knee, ringworm, malaria, St. Vitus' dance, bubonic plague, cold, sore throat, sore back, body odor or halitosis...
...treatments have been given Saipan's civilians by Army and Navy doctors and their assistants since D-plus-five. The "Midtown Pharmacy" still treats about 1,200 cases each day. Chief ailment: malnutrition, for which vitamin B1 injections are given in severe cases. Other maladies : diarrhea, worms, beriberi...
...suffered from malaria, dysentery or beriberi...
They fought as long as human strength endured. The Japanese enveloped their right flank. The orphans tried to counterattack. They were starved, exhausted, sick with malaria, beriberi, dysentery. They had fought without relief for three months. Skinny wrote a final entry in his diary: "Bataan is disintegrating." The counter attack failed...