Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tending the church altar and the sacerdotal robes, and her kindly parents were proud indeed of their daughter -proud, that is, until one day early this year when Régine told them that she was pregnant and refused to name the father of her unborn child...
...were looking forward to the birth of their grandchild. But it was not to be. One night, haggard and distracted, the young parish priest rushed in to report a fearful thing: he had found Régine shot through the head on a country road, beside her the child, cut out of her body and cruelly stabbed to death...
...secretary of the Federation of South African Women was dragged away from the bedside of her sick child. A British-born Methodist minister was arrested in his rectory at 4 a.m. Professor Zachariah Matthews, onetime Henry W. Luce Professor of World Christianity at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, was another of those rounded up, packed into police vans and jailed in Johannesburg in the dark of the night...
There is scant excuse for any child anywhere in the U.S. to contract diphtheria, let alone to die of it. Conquest of this disease is one of 20th century medicine's most clear-cut triumphs: it can be prevented by inoculation with diphtheria toxoid in the first few months of life, repeated when the child is about ten. Yet in Detroit last week, 72 diphtheria victims were confined in the city's Herman Kiefer Hospital; so far in 1956, Detroit has had 156 cases with five deaths, most of them in the last two months...
Detroit has one of the nation's most intensive programs for immunization against diphtheria, run by Health Commissioner Joseph G. Molner. On every notification of birth registration there is an invitation to the parents to have the child inoculated. There is a follow-up letter a year later, and a recheck when the child enters grammar school. But many parents fail to act because they have been lulled into a false sense of security by today's relative rarity of diphtheria. For them, the disease has lost its traditional terror. And Detroit's problem is complicated...