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Motherhood has been getting safer & safer for the past 100 years-ever since Lister introduced antiseptic methods and Semmelweis showed how to check the spread of childbed fever. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported last week that in 1949 the U.S. set a proud record by becoming the first large nation with a maternal death rate of less than one per 1,000 live births. In 1948 the rate was 1.2, and in 1933 (before the sulfas and antibiotics...
...nation had become a cowboy; in those carefully metered periods which they spent outdoors between programs, they saw cattle rustlers around every corner. They were not the first U.S. children to indulge in make-believe about the Old West. But they were the first to catch the fever simultaneously from coast to coast and to demand such splendid arms and accouterments...
...visiting her old friend and teacher Jean Sibelius in Finland, bright-eyed Antonio Brico, 48, Denver conductor, flew on to French Equatorial Africa to see another old musical friend, Organist-Physician Albert Schweitzer, who had cabled: "You've always wanted to see my hospital. Get yourself a yellow-fever shot and a sun helmet and come...
George Bernard Shaw was reported weakening last night and running a high fever. A member of the 94-year-old playwright's staff said: "He is much weaker." Shaw's fever is believed caused by a kidney aliment. After his accident in November he underwent a minor operation for relief. He was returned October 4 from the hospital to his home. His progress had appeared good, but he suffered a relapse Sunday...
Several of the diseases which Dr. Haas said might be spread by saboteurs or enemy raiders cannot be effectively guarded against by inoculation-e.g., influenza, parrot fever, Q fever, tularemia, some fungus infections, botulism.* And even in cases where immunity can be given, individual inoculation is costly and cumbersome. Dr. Haas suggests that forward-looking researchers try to figure out a way of giving simultaneous protection to hundreds of people in an auditorium by forcing the immunizing agent into the air-circulating system...