Word: coughs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that reason, New York City's Department of Health last week suspended diphtheria and whooping-cough inoculations (except for infants under six months, who are virtually immune to polio) at its 76 child health stations.* The ban will run until...
...babies born in the U.S. at the turn of the century died before they were old enough to go to school. Today, if a child reaches his first birthday, he will almost surely reach high-school age. Reason : many of the leading child-killers of the past-diarrhea, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever-have been all but conquered. Pneumonia, heart diseases, TB and cancer still take a heavy toll, but even these killers are being discouraged by medical progress in treatment and early diagnosis...
...Laborite Daily Herald: "If a labor member had been guilty of so indiscreet and offensive a reference to a friendly nation the matter would have been plastered across the headlines. But . . . Churchill. . . can display boorish ill manners and the Tory press does not give so much as a deprecatory cough...
...cough drop...
...Traviata: "The tale of a cutie with a cough and no four-way pills...