Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Complacently treading his Brooklyn "beat," Patrolman Salvatore Di Lorenzo, one year "on the force," heard the broken screams of a woman frightened & helpless. He ran-into the apartment of Mrs. Adelaide Lambert. Her two-year-old daughter, she cried at him, was choking to death from diphtheria...
...Cancer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72.3 71.1 Automobile accidents . . . . . . . . . . . 18.1 16.5 Suicides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13.4 12.3 Unspecified respiratory diseases . . 11.4 11.1 Diphtheria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5.9 5.1 Meningitis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.8 2.9 Unspecified external causes . . . . . . . 42.2 40.8 -- -- Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167.1 159.8 -- -- Grand Total...
...Diphtheria...
...baby was dying of strangulation. Aged three months, she had tubular diphtheria. She must be taken at once to the hospital for an operation. At the Essex County Isolation Hospital in Soho, N. J., Dr. D. J. Poia and Nurse Marion Raitzel took their seats in an ambulance. The gong clanged. Rounding corners in Maplewood, N. J., the passengers were obliged to hang tight. Rounding one corner everything went stunning, dizzy black. The driver had hit a trolley pole. The ambulance body had flown from the chassis, which wrecked further on. Dr. Poia and Nurse Raitzel came to in dizzy...
...Clyde Plank of the Colorado National Guard, soared over. They flew to Silverton, Col., 200 miles from Denver, over crags and chasms no one had ever before crossed. All of Silverton, for four weeks completely snowbound, floundered over to the town baseball lot to see mail, food, newspapers and diphtheria antitoxin drop from the skies into a snowbank. The factory siren kept up a steady shriek. Oldest inhabitants ants shifted their quids to ejaculate. It was not only the first visitor in a month but their first airplane ever-just skimming the housetops, circling higher, shining in the sun, veering...