Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Encephalitis. 2. Cancer. 3. Tuberculosis 4. Scarlet fever. 5. Pneumonia...
Infected Maids. Three serious diseases-tuberculosis, syphilis and typhoid fever-are usually transmitted to children by their elders, said Dr. Fairfax Hall of New Rochelle, N. Y. He viewed with alarm the fact that 18,000 U. S. schoolteachers have tuberculosis, that no laws prevent them from spreading their infections in classrooms. Dr. Hall urged the Academy to plump for examinations of teachers, to educate parents to insist on health cards for domestics. In wealthy Westchester County, N. Y., where 25% of high-school children had a positive tuberculin reaction, an organized campaign of adult health examinations...
Among the diseases traced to viruses are infantile paralysis, yellow fever, influenza, small pox, measles, palltacosis, encephalitis, distemper, and rabics. Medical scientists regard the study of viruses as ranking in importance with that of bacteriology, and the rapid development of knowledge in this field since 1920 as one of the most brilliant advances in the history of medical research...
Joseph Grew was born in 1880 of a line of Boston bankers, was predestined to be one himself.* From his doting father he wangled a post-collegiate trip abroad, succumbed to "the vivid colors and majestic smells and big gun shooting" in the East He also caught a fever in the Malay States, lost his hearing in one ear and while he was ill in India met a helpful U. S. consul. Then & there he determined to be a diplomat. He flunked his first examination, but managed to get a clerkship in Cairo. In 1904, his star began to rise...
...Europe's war fever does not rise again, June 7 will be historic. Shortly before midnight that day, on a train rolling over the international bridge below Niagara Falls, a King of England will enter the U. S. for the first time. For U. S. detectives, a day last week was historic. In the U. S. for the first time arrived the chief detective of Scotland Yard on active duty...