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First to Go In. The first Underwood in Korea (while it was still the Hermit Kingdom) was Grandfather Horace Grant Underwood, who went there as Korea's first Protestant missionary in 1885. Though Seoul was swarming with cholera (Koreans call it "the rat in the stomach disease") old Dr. Underwood used to stride about unscathed in his black buttoned-up coat and white tie. He was extremely proud of the fact that he was the only ordained Calvinist in the city. Later he married a medical missionary, Lillias Horton, who became physician to Korea's Queen Min. Soon...
...harvest had been good, Viceroy Lord Wavell's speed-up of food transport effective, foreign charity helpful. But all this was amelioration, not solution. The blown and shriveled masses who had not starved to death in the famine areas of northeastern India were scourged now by pestilence, by cholera, dysentery, malaria, dropsy, pneumonia. The famine had sharpened India's old and limitless needs: more rice, in steady supply; milk for her children; medicines for her sick; shelter for her homeless. Without these, thus far merely trickling in, there would be many added to the multitude of dead...
...disease was on the march. In famine-weakened Bengal malaria was taking a death toll comparable to the famine's fabulous 40,000 a week of early November. Cholera, dysentery and dropsy were also in murderous full bloom...
...Diego. Of 50 men ingitis patients treated with sulfa drugs (TIME, Nov. 30), 48 recovered. The two who died did so almost as soon as they reached the hospital, might have lived if they had been treated soon enough. The death rate from spinal meningitis, like that of cholera or bubonic plague, used to be about 70% of all cases. Anti-meningococcus serum, which came into use about 1907, cut the mortality to around 25%. But in World War I meningitis was the sixth cause of death in the U.S. Army, killed 1,737 soldiers. The sulfa drugs, if used...
...right correspondent's uniform for the climate he will work in (average cost $358). He sees that they get the right inoculations against as many as nine diseases-typhoid, paratyphoid, smallpox, tetanus for everywhere-plus yellow fever and typhus for the South Pacific or Africa-plus cholera, bubonic and pulmonic plague for Asia (the tetanus inoculations alone take 42 days). And through Lloyds of London we take out a $25,000 personal insurance policy for each TIME traveler...