Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...threatened invasion of typhus with the tide of immigration from Central Europe. United States health authorities face a serious problem. Not since the prevalence of infantile paralysis more than four years ago, or possibly the more recent epidemic of influenza, has the country been menaced with any malady so dangerous to our national health. So critical has the situation become that the United States Public Health Service has been forced to impose stringent sanitary regulations on immigrants; and Italy, by closing her frontiers, has temporarily suspended emigration from Central Europe to the United States...
...nucleus around which to form a team, there will be S. H. Ordway '21, a regular who distinguished himself in every meet last year, W. R. Brewster '22, who was on the team until he contracted influenza, and J. S. Barss '22, a substitute on the 1920 team. But besides this, two letter men, H. B. Cutter '21 and R. P. Rogers '21, both of whom have had experience on a University team, will be available. B. Boyce '22, and J. K. Watson '23, are also very promising men and have shown a great deal of skill and knowledge...
...decline in the rate of increase? Is the mere size of the country all-important? "The results of the census population in 1920 at first glance may seem somewhat disappointing" because the grand total expected by the prophets in such matters did not materialize. The war, the influenza epidemic, suspension of immigration, explain the facts, and we are informed that the increase is all that could be expected...
During the war O'Connell served in the ground school for naval aviation at Technology and was only prevented from receiving his commission by an attack of combined influenza and pneumonia...
...died of wounds or in action, 89 died from influenza or pneumonia, and 50 from other diseases. Deaths from aeroplane accidents total 36, from other accidental causes 18. In other words, 139 died from disease, 54 from accidents, and 170 from wounds...