Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Coast Guard established headquarters at Evansville, brought 225 of its boats on the scene for rescue work, sent for nearly 200 more from points as far distant as Boston. It had 15 airplanes in action. The U. S. Public Health Service was busy shipping anti-typhoid and smallpox vaccine, diphtheria antitoxin, influenza and pneumonia serum; was mobilizing a corps of sanitary engineers to face new problems as the flood recedes. Revenue agents were ordered to give up "still" chasing and use their cars to transport refugees. Even the Narcotics Bureau was busy shipping supplies of codeine and other needed drugs...
...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...
...ambitions and failings: "In every single one of the largely or partially preventable causes of death, Arizona has a much higher rate, in some instances three or even four times higher, than the country as a whole." Arizona's remarkable categories of death: Infant and maternal mortality, tuberculosis, diphtheria, typhoid and paratyphoid fevers, diarrhea and enteritis, motor accidents...
...Last week in New York City occurred the first death from diphtheria in seven weeks...
...inevitably befall our great centres of population, if their supplies of food and water and their sewage systems were controlled, not by men who had devoted long and arduous years to the medical sciences, but by those uninstructed and misinformed individuals who believe disease (for instance, typhoid and diphtheria) to result from the pressure of bony irregularities upon nerve...