Word: contagion
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...managed the affairs of brainier tong leaders, terrorized respectable citizens, puzzled the constabulary. Gory, clever, macabre, the tong wars of the early twentieth century had much the same effect on the U. S. public as Chicago's gang-battles; they turned harmless laundrymen into homicidal maniacs from sheer contagion...
...Contagion. "Mental disorders are contagious. Those who live in congested districts, who lead busy lives in great commercial centres are in grave danger. If 500 normal persons were to be exposed in crowded quarters to five victims of mental diseases, the effects of those five abnormal persons would be felt by every one of the normal 500."?Professor Henri Laugier of the Sorbonne...
...herd in one ensemble first offenders, murderers, and speeders results merely in inoculating all with the anti-social virus of the most experienced and hardened lifer. The first necessity is segregation, according to possibilities of cure, for crime is largely a disease. Men with appendicitis are not placed in contagion-bearing wards...
Following the death. Surgeon General Hugh S. Gumming, to protect other laboratory workers from the contagion, decided to move further psittacosis research to some isolated quarantine island along the Atlantic seaboard...
There is little doubt that such a vigorous policy, if conscientiously adhered to, will remove the breath--at least of contagion, from Boston and its environs, and be a convincing proof of purity to the Tercentenniary sight-seer--provided he doesn't stay too long...