Word: cholera
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Bubonic plague is called the Black Death because its victims become a spotted dusky red. The disease compares with cholera as an Asiatic peril. It is transmitted by a germ which is carried by a flea from rats to man. The death rate is 80%. An infection of the blood stream, the disease runs its fatal course in a week or less, with high fever and great pain. Persons may be inoculated against bubonic plague. The use of serum in the first few hours of the disease reduces the mortality rate...
...Andrew Jackson was fighting the Bank of the United States and New York commerce was paralyzed by an epidemic of cholera when the Bowery Savings Bank opened for business one hundred years ago last week. The Bowery was notorious for two things: vice and thrift. Fifty men and women, butchers, grocers, seamstresses, shoemakers, came in the first night to deposit savings of $2,020 which later were kept in the bank's two tiny leather-covered chests. A mutual savings institution for the poor and downtrodden, Bowery Savings was heavy with the smell of Sunday School and the mission...
Benjamin H. Day got out that issue in his dirty little printing shop on William Street because financial panic and an epidemic of cholera had brought his business to a standstill. It was a tiny four-page sheet with the wrong date-1832 instead of 1833-printed under the mast- head. It promised to report all the news of the day. In two months it had 2,000 subscribers, within a year 10,000. But not until 1835 did the Sun become famous. And then it was the moon that made it so. A cross-eyed reporter named Richard Adams...
...operating expenses out of operating income from the sale of farm products, live stock, water supply, and electric power, plus students' fees. The remainder comes about half from income of invested funds and the rest in the form of annual contributions from friends in Greece and America. Cholera carried off $1,500 worth of pigs last year, and the unprecedented drought this spring probably means the loss of the year's crop. But the School survives such calamities as it has survived revolutions, wars, political crises and earthquakes, and has never had a deficit...
...second breeding, the Association will pay half the cost of a pure bred boar. The farmer must pay for cholera-vaccination of all pigs. When the two litters have been raised he may either buy put the Association's interest in his breeding stock or sell back...