Word: forli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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> "The latest . . . figures available for Ottawa County, Oklahoma . . . show that the [mortality] rate for all forms of tuberculosis [in 1930] was then 379.9 per 100,000 for males and 95.8 for females . . . the rate in the United States . . . was 71.8 for males, and 63.0 for females."
* In 1930 Contractors Rinehart and Dennis of Charlottesville, Va. drilled a tunnel in double-quick time through a hill near Gauley Bridge. Hired for the blasting were 2,000 men, mostly Negroes. Within three years after the tunnel was finished, 466 had died of silicosis and tuberculosis.
Every year, to save their lives from cancer of the larynx, 400 people in the U. S. have their Adam's apples removed. The stump of windpipe which remains is turned over and pulled through a hole in the front of the neck, at the point where a collar...
Stretching for six blocks along Chicago's West Side are the seven dirty red brick buildings and the one clean yellow brick building of "Misery Harbor" (Cook County Hospital)-largest general hospital in the world. Through the gates of the hospital pour 135,000 charity patients every year, for...
Medical Superintendent of the huge plant for 25 years was Dr. Karl Albert Meyer. A practical old-school surgeon, Dr. Meyer never required the hospital's army of interns to attend postgraduate classes or lectures, insisted that all young doctors fresh from college needed was "a heavy dose of...