Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brighton, Mass., James Stewart, 22, arrested for larceny, explained why he was heading toward home with a stolen calf: "My little boy is almost three years old and he's never seen a calf...
Meanwhile, in Brighton, officials were battling a comparatively tiny but potentially far deadlier invader-epidemic smallpox. Compared to the sprawling, shapeless influenza blight, it was easy to pin down. The lethal virus had been brought to Britain by an R.A.F. officer who had flown in from Karachi to visit his girl friend, a Brighton telephone operator. It passed from the flyer to the girl to her father. The father died. Before the girl's case could be properly diagnosed, three nurses at the Bevendean Infectious Disease Hospital had caught it. The flyer's clothes had been sent...
...quarantined families. Milk bottles delivered at the doors of contact houses were collected and destroyed. Ration books handled by a local grocer who caught the disease were called in and burned. Portions of his stock that could not be disinfected were destroyed. Some 80,000 residents of Brighton and environs flocked, with urging, to be vaccinated...
...many states. Vaccination is not compulsory in Britain, even for hospital nurses. A law requiring vaccination of infants stood on the books for 40 years, but it was loosely enforced and seldom observed. Two years ago it was repealed. Why? Said one exasperated medical officer in Brighton last week: "The British are a pigheaded people, and the moment you mention compulsion they start fussing about liberty...
...hectic now," said President George Mean of the Brighton and District Grocers Association, as Britain's housewives swooped down on the precious jellies and biscuits in a first frenzy of point-freedom, "but everything will settle down very soon...