Word: cholera
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...formation of a Harvard-Technology group of sanitary engineers and physicians, in order to fight the typhus and cholera in Servia has just been completed, and the group will sail from New York on the Athenia next Saturday. They are being supported by the American Red Cross, and were organized by Professor W. T. Sedgwick from the students of the University Medical School, the Harvard-Technology School for Health Officers, and the sanitary engineering department of the Institute of Technology...
Long before 1912, it had been shown in what a terrible condition China, with its vast population of 400,000,000, was. There is scarcely a community which has not been at some time the prey of cholera, tuberculosis and the like. China, unaided by the science of the West, has been unable to cope with these conditions. In the entire country, there are but 650 trained physicians, one to every 600,000 people; or, at the same ratio as if there were but one doctor in Boston. There are 250 hospitals in China, averaging 30 beds each, which...
...efforts have been made to deal with the abominable situation in a scientific manner. Ignorance of the sources of disease and of the ways in which disease is spread is universal. The great mass of the people believes that the gods send epidemics, or that heaven wills that cholera or the bubonic plague should carry off its thousands. Up to the last few years municipal cleanliness was unknown. Sewers are found in but few of the cities. Town refuse which has value as food for animals or as manure is removed daily by hand in open vessels. Inspection of food...
...There were fifteen thousand tenements in New York at that early day. Today there are eighty thousand and their united influence goes toward the destruction of the home. The discovery, on this side of the Atlantic, that this is nothing less than treason, dates back to the last cholera epidemic...
...vial containing cholera germs has been procured from Berlin for the new bacteriological laboratory at Rochester...