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...last fortnight 41 deaths and 721 cases of amebic dysentery in 206 cities had been apparently traced to Chicago. The committee cleared Chicago's Health Commissioner Herman Niels Bundesen of laxness or negligence in handling and publicizing the epidemic. Last week Commissioner Bundesen promised rigid plumbing and food inspection, called for an emergency staff of 20 sanitary engineers...
...hotels and restaurants had had their food handlers examined, ousted all those infected. But the Chicago health authorities were badly worried by "an unexpected, even startling" number of cases revealed in the answers to its questionnaire. Believing the danger much greater than appreciated by most physicians. President Herman X. Bundesen of Chicago's Board of Health arranged for a nationwide radio broadcast to warn and instruct the country. Some authorities believe that one in every ten or 20 persons harbors dysentery parasites. The disease may recur long after an apparent cure. Applicants for food-handling jobs should be examined...
...East seems more affected than the West. San Francisco's Health Officer Jacob Casson Geiger knew of very few cases. At the University of Missouri there were none; students are being instructed in protecting themselves. Health Commissioner Herman Neils Bundesen of Chicago thought that his community had only the usual number of cases, not enough for alarm. New York City's worst centre seems to be the Greenwich Village neighborhood. Vacationists have imported many cases from Europe. Partially isolated communities, like colleges, have been able to eradicate the disease when it appeared. At Smith College, Dr. Anna Root...
Last week in Chicago six physicians, including Health Commissioner Herman Bundesen and Dr. Edward Miloslavich, Milwaukee pathologist, gathered in the offices of Dr. Orlando Scott to examine the mummified remains of one John St. Helen. They thumped it, felt it. x-rayed it. Then they gravely nodded their heads and all but announced that the mummy was none other than that of John Wilkes Booth, assassin of Lincoln...
Chicago's able Commissioner of Health Arnold Henry Kegel is as eager a publicist as was his able predecessor Herman Niels Bundesen,* but neither so practiced nor so blatant. Last week he took up the Bamberger and Watkins baby mixup (TIME, July...