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...more persons are exposed to infantile paralysis than ever contract the disease. The germ is present in the noses and throats of many healthy individuals. During epidemics most adults and children in the stricken areas pick up germs, acquire immunity without developing symptoms of the disease. This immunity lasts a lifetime. Each epidemic immunizes thousands of children. Not until these thousands are grown and other thousands have taken their places is another epidemic likely to occur. New York City had a local epidemic in 1907 (2,000 cases). Its epidemic of 1916 (9,000 cases) spread to the Mississippi. Last...
...years ago estimates gave the U. S. 450,000 cases, 45,000 deaths. In 1925 there were about 150,000 cases, 15,000 deaths. The progressive improvement has been in great measure due to public health officers insistently damning and destroying the common house fly which carries the typhoid germ from filth to food...
...Carpentersville, Gary, Palatine, Arlington Heights) with 15,000 people, each with a local plant and electric service at night. These plants were bought and junked, the transmission systems interconnected and power sent efficiently from one central station. Public Service Co. of Northern Illinois is now regarded as the engineering germ of the great superpower systems. It was the forerunner of Mr. Insull's great Middle West Utilities System, now serving 5,321 communities...
...slaved for him, but it was a long time since he had noticed her. He was wrapped up in his Idea: the prevention of all disease by the perfection of the human body. Strong in his enthusiastic faith, he subjected his husky little daughter to every possible draught and germ. "She grew to be large and strong. Occasionally she suffered from a slight concussion of the brain, but she never caught a cold in the head...
...noted further that the symptoms of poliomyelitis and meningitis were much the same, but that a normal sugar content in infantile paralysis and a deficiency in sugar in meningitis led to the finding that only the germ of the latter disease consumed the sugar...