Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Other Rockefeller Foundation 1928 expenditures went as usual to promote the development of medical knowledge by aiding schools of medicine, nursing and hygiene in various parts of the world (including 18 medical schools in 14 countries) and to promote public health by helping governments fight certain diseases (yellow fever in Brazil and West Africa, hookworm in 21 countries, malaria in the U. S. and elsewhere...
From snow-clogged central Manitoba last week went out the account of what an epidemic may mean to an isolated community. In early May typhoid fever appeared at Fort Churchill on Hudson Bay. The nearest hospital was 183 miles away at The Pas. A few patients got through the blizzard. Twelve, on a train, with three score nurses, physicians and railway employes, were snowed in. Three locomotives could not pull them free. Food grew low. Snow was melted for drink. Engine fires were killed to save fuel. Telephone poles were chopped down for more heat. After days a dog team...
Almost as though to puncture any complacency this improving typhoid picture might create, the Government showed last week that cases, not deaths, of typhoid fever were increasing this year over...
...Kansas City, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Anderson learned that their son, Melvin, who was in a hospital, had died of scarlet fever. Mrs. Anderson fainted. Later the parents went to the O. V. Mast Undertaking Co., but were not allowed to see the body because of the danger of contagion. As they prepared for the funeral, the undertaker sent word that the hospital had erred, that another Anderson-named child had died, not Melvin. Mrs. Anderson fainted again...
...Democratic National Committee, as a member of the finance committee of General Motors Corp.* Donaldson Brown of Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y., was appointed to succeed Mr. Raskob as finance committee chairman. Died. Marjorie Cassidy Baer, 29, of Manhattan, wife of Arthur ("Bugs") Baer, Hearstpaper funnyman; of typhoid fever; in Manhattan...