Word: fever
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Among the many lessons to be gleaned from the European War is one concerning which there is very little diversity of opinion. Recent reports have demonstrated the very great value of anti-typhoid inoculation in preventing typhoid fever, not only in the army but also in civilian population. The anti-typhoid inoculations are now regarded as much a part of the necessary equipment of those going to the war zone as vaccination against small-pox on a healthy body. All the members of the Harvard Unit that recently sailed for the American ambulance received the inoculations...
...known baseball club had all his players receive the inoculations. The obvious question arises--if this precautionary, measure is so valuable to armies and to a civilian population in times of war--why is it not a good thing in the ordinary walks of life? We know that typhoid fever occasionally occurs even under the best of conditions...
...University has been remarkably free from typhoid fever and has been spared the unfortunate experiences of certain other colleges with this disease. At the present time with the system of frequent routine examinations of the water, milk and food supplies of our dining halls any epidemic is practically out of the question, yet sporadic cases acquired from outside creep in. Students almost without exception, take some food and water from other places than their regular eating place. Furthermore, in the summer, which is the typhoid season, the student population scatters and with the characteristic activity of young men their excursions...
Giraud Foster de Rham '18, of New York, N. Y., died early Saturday morning at St. Mark's School from a two-weeks' attack of typhoid fever...
...crew men at the University of Pennsylvania will all be vaccinated for typhoid fever before the rowing season gets very far under way accordingly to Coach Vivian Nickalls. Last year the Pennsylvania crew was broken up by an epidemic of the fever, and Coach Nickalls does not intend to take any chances of a similar occurrence this spring...