Word: burney
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Despite the continuance of polio, Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney of the PHS said last week that the Salk killed-virus vaccine has proved 90% effective. The trouble is that an estimated 40 million Americans in the susceptible undergo age group have not taken the shots...
Produced at the request of Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney, the half-hour program (Public Enemy) used facts and figures collected in 200 localities to show that air pollution may hasten death. "Out of every 100,000 people living on farms and in small towns, fewer than 15 will die of cancers in the respiratory system," said Dr. Richard A. Prindle, head of the U.S. Public Health Service's Air Pollution Medical Program. But in smogtowns "the death column doubles...
...National Conference on Air Pollution meets this week in Washington. Open to the public, the conference was called by Surgeon General Burney in the hope that "ten years from now, the people in every community will be breathing air that is clean and wholesome...
...last year. In the week ending Aug. 23 there were 144 cases (43 in Michigan, mainly in Detroit), against 96 for the same week of 1957. In the week ending Aug. 30 the total fell only slightly to 126 cases, against 76 last year. Warned Surgeon General Leroy E. Burney: "The tragic fact is that many of the cases could have been prevented. Salk vaccine gives 70% to 90% protection against polio, but about 40 million Americans in the susceptible under-40 age group have not yet been vaccinated...
...Leroy E. Burney, U.S. Surgeon General Sc.D...