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Word: frant (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City, every municipal and most private hospitals were jammed with influenza patients, yet Dr. Samuel Frant, the city's chief epidemiologist, coolly announced: "The prevalence of influenza at present is very similar to that frequently experienced at this season of the year." Indianapolis factories and offices were crippled by workers' absences, but it was not felt that the disease necessitated municipal action. Boston was not officially exercised over "a slight gain" in respiratory diseases for the week, nor was Minneapolis alarmed about its "numerous colds and some grippe." "Nothing in the way of an influenza epidemic," cheerfully...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Many Colds | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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