Word: diphtheria
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...health of each citizen, New York has a good health record. In 1939, out of a population of 7,500,000, deaths totaled 75,439, second lowest rate for the city ever recorded (lowest: 1938). There were large decreases in maternal and infant mortality; in deaths from scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, pneumonia, meningitis, measles...
...past six years the Department built eleven health centres and a laboratory. Last year nearly 140,000 persons were X-rayed for tuberculosis - an all-time high - and hundreds of new cases discovered. The Department helped diagnose, treat and prevent such diseases as syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid, diphtheria. Private practitioners make ample use of the Department's laboratory service, which helps diagnose rare diseases such as parrot fever, leprosy, tularemia (rabbit fever...
Despite Nazi boasts of a better Germany, the health-standards of the country have been disastrously lowered, an item which may prove to be of great importance in the event of a long war. The rate of occurrence of diphtheria, scarlet fever, and infantile paralysis have more than tripled since 1933, Miss Mann pointed out; this constitutes a grave menace to the German war economy...
...Swiss-French border has already been closed, since the Swiss fear contamination from some mysterious epidemic which is eating into France at the present time. Nice has been closed to everybody because diphtheria has swept away more than half the Italian garrison there," he stated...
...appointed to the Medical School faculty in 1938. Formerly he was Field Director of the International Health Division of the Rockefeller Foundation, and Medical Director of the Division of Communicable Diseases at Herman Kiefer Hospital, Detroit. He is well known as an investigator of the treatment of scarlet fever, diphtheria, erysipelas, meningitis, poliomyelitis, respiratory infections and other diseases. One of his studies for the Rockefeller Foundation was a four-year field research on scarlet fever in Rumania, an investigation in which bacteriologists in many European countries cooperated...