Word: cholerae
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Frederica Billings, 3, only child of John Shaw Billings (National Affairs Editor of TIME) ; in Atlanta, Ga., of cholera infantum...
Smallpox, plague, yellow fever, cholera and typhus are prevalent in various parts of the world. Ships, immigrants, animals (especially rats) may bring the pests into the U. S. Dr. Cumming's small brigade of doctors, dentists, sanitarians, pharmacists, nurses and specialists inspected 21,631 ships, more than 2,000,000 passengers, more than 2,000,000 seamen at domestic, insular and foreign ports. Result: only seven cases of smallpox, one of leprosy and two of typhus reached U. S. quarantine...
Persons traveling to Siam, Cochin-China, China, and Iraq must still beware cholera; along West Africa yellow fever; in backward Europe typhus; everywhere smallpox...
...whole commercial cabbage crop made 18,000,000 gallons of sauerkraut; sold for more than $3,500,000.* "Hog mange affects the choicest parts of hogs; hams, shoulders, bacon; forces disastrous price slashing. Farmers' Bulletin 1085 gives full, explicit direction for control and prevention. Statistics on hog cholera discloses an average loss of $30,000,000 a year for 40 years. Immunization of suckling pigs is strongly urged, especially if the swine are pastured in lots with running streams, since these may be a dangerous .source of infection." Chemists and advanced agriculturists met last week at Northwestern University, Evanston...
...Cholera strikes suddenly. Intense thirst is followed by acute cramps and collapse about the third day, when most deaths occur. During the collapse the face turns black, the skin becomes dry and hard, the voice fades. Early and extreme rigidity of the corpse is a striking feature of cholera and the origin of much superstition. Frequently the corpse will sit bolt upright on the stretcher as it is being carried to the morgue, or rise on its cot at home...