Word: diphtheria
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Last week, the Epidemiological Report of the League of Nations Secretariat announced the progress of contagious diseases during the past year. Epidemics this spring have been slight. Though measles are on the up, smallpox is less prevalent in the U. S. and Canada than ever before. Diphtheria has Increased in Western and Central Europe ; influenza in Sweden, in Denmark. The incidence of typhus remains unusually low throughout Eastern Europe...
Dogs. The "love me love my dog" attitude toward house dogs that are treated like human being was deplored by Dr. Minas Joannides of Minneapolis, who charged this intimate companion of man with spreading tuberculosis, diphtheria, scarlet fever, measles and smallpox; fleas, lice, ticks, worms and many another danger...
Your account of the diphtheria epidemic at Nome was, on the whole, accurate and well-put. But there are two geographical mistakes in your article...
...year. At the close of the afternoons work two impressions stood out above the rest. One was the fact that the scrubs distinctly outplayed the Crimson combinations, and the second was the initial appearance of Dunker in action since his confinement in the Infirmary with an attack of diphtheria four and a half weeks...
...veteran guard was confined to the infirmary on September 24 with a mild case of diphtheria. It is expected that he will join the squad for light conditioning work before the end of next week...