Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since late November influenza has been increasing throughout western Europe at so alarming a rate that public health officials have come to fear a pandemic, a world-wide occurrence of this disease, such as happened in 1918-19. Already Switzerland, Germany England and France have been severely hit. At Nantes, France, the undertakers reported last week that they were four days behind with their burials. Their crogue-morts* complained of sore feet and demanded subsidy for new shoes. In Italy the authorities claimed they have no epidemic. But no gloss was smeared over the situation in Spain, Ireland, Scotland...
...feet, earnest, concerned over the definition of mémoire. "It does not apply to human beings only," he cried. "I had an English dog called Bobby during the early days of the War. He was almost human. He died in the swamps of La Pompelle in 1917, of influenza. He always remembered and acted strangely several hours in advance of an attack when he had heard me give the order, perhaps days before. Is that memory or intelligence? Is that soul or instinct? Mes amis, you may rest assured that dogs at least remember...
...choice-but if you write to the MAN give us the STREET and NUMBER, and if you write to the MONKEY, give us the TREE and LIMB." His title of "Doctor" is no nickname. He is a graduate of the medical school of the University of Tennessee. During the influenza epidemic, he left his postoffice and went to heal the sick...
...expectant the royal attendants waited. Would Her Majesty order that room disturbed? On the bureau had lain undisturbed for more than three decades a little pile of silver and copper coins. They had been left there carelessly by Prince Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence and Avondale, before he contracted influenza and died at Sandringham (1892). He, the eldest son of Edward and Alexandra (then Prince and Princess of Wales) was heir presumptive to the British Crown. Moreover his betrothal to Princess Mary of Teck had been announced and touted as a love match...
...analysis of 900 consecutive cases of illness among London school teachers. She finds that the women were absent for illness twice as long as were the men of the same occupational groups. The difference was not due to maladies peculiar to women, but included those such as common colds, influenza, lung infections. Nervous diseases incapacitated women three times as much as men. But rheumatism and diseases of the joints affected both sexes in almost equal numbers. Against these facts is the strange one that the death rate for London men school teachers is twice as high as for the women...