Word: cholerae
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...Quarantinable diseases which prevent radio pratique are: cholera, leprosy, yellow fever, anthrax, typhus fever, smallpox, plague (bubonic, pneumonic or septicemic), parrot fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts...
...sweep the dirty corridors, poison the rats, reduce the death rate from 42% to 2%. Ably publicized by the London Times correspondent (Ian Hunter), their efforts infuriate the chief physician (Donald Crisp) who considers female nursing a sin & a shame. Flo goes to the front hospital at Balaklava, catches cholera, gets back to Scutari to find most of her good work undone. She does it over again, returns to London, gets from Queen Victoria a brooch and the recognition which has been her aim: that women are worthy to be wartime nurses and that nursing is a profession...
...conditioned hospital ships for sunstroke cases. He proceeded to inoculate every Italian to land at Massawa or Mogadiscio with the vaccine he himself had discovered in British employ for prevention of typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Sir Aldo shipped to East Africa tons of quinine for malaria, tons of serum tubes for tetanus, gas gangrene and snake bite, and 18,000 hospital cots. He covered suspected water holes with petroleum, fumigated camps, provided good drinking water, dotted Eritrea with hospitals and laboratories. The Italian Army fought under unprecedentedly thorough medical care...
Malaria: "a few deaths." Dysentery: one epidemic in southern Somaliland, no deaths. Typhus, typhoid fever, relapsing fevers: no deaths. Beriberi and scurvy: no white cases. Cholera and plague: not one case. Chief mortality was, next to Ethiopian bullets, from sunstroke which was eliminated last November by prompt treatment of the first symptoms...
...Arabs, eight Jews and five Britons, while mathematically speaking, gives the Jew more representation than his present population warrants, certainly does not adequately protect the interests and investment of Jews in Palestine. Before the Jews began rehabilitating Palestine, the country was one uncivilized and barbarous; reeking with poverty, malaria, cholera and similar plagues. Through the activity of various Zionist organizations such as Hadassah, ZOA, Young Judaea etc.., hospitalization, afforestation, and the establishment of an economically stabilized government have been introduced into Palestine. Is it unfair and far-fetched for 'the Jew, who has spread his benefits equally, not only...