Word: communitiesâ
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Common Colds last only three or four days and make the victims immune for three months, decided Wilson George Smillie (Harvard public health administrator) after studying four isolated communities???in Labrador at Spitsbergen on the Island of St. John in the Virgin Islands and in a southern Alabama hill town. In each community the inhabitants were free of colds until strangers arrived. The experience of Spitsbergen where men mine coal all year round was sharply defined. From November when the last heat departed until the day after the first boat arrived the next spring no miner had a cold, although...
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