Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...months ago Franklin Roosevelt discovered that Rexford Guy Tugwell had a negative propaganda value. Thereupon Dr. Tugwell's pleasant face was given a veil of political invisibility. Hence few people were last week aware that he was in Florida on vacation, recuperating from an attack of influenza. But Secretary Wallace knew. So did AAAdministrator Chester C. Davis. And many another was to become acutely conscious of the fact...
...initial stages resemble closely those of severe influenza. The temperature rises rapidly, often to from 103° to 104° F., with chills, great depression, weakness, pains in the head and limbs. The eruption appears on the fourth or fifth day after the onset and, except in times of epidemic, the diagnosis is extremely difficult in the pre-eruptive stage. As the eruption appears, the fever is apt to rise. The rash usually begins on the shoulders and trunk, extending to the extremities, the backs of the hands and feet, and sometimes to the palms and soles. It becomes more...
Chicago had a real influenza scare when the commandant of a veterans' hospital quarantined 1,750 patients, 1,500 employes...
South Carolina reported 2,000 cases of influenza last week. Estimates put the number of unreported cases at 10,000 more in that State...
...country over reported 7,000 cases of influenza to the U. S. Public Health Service the first week of the year. That was three times the number of cases reported during the same week of January 1934, but only a small fraction of the 72,241 cases reported the first week of 1933. By last week doctors, who heretofore had been negligent in reporting their mild cases of influenza, hurried to report such numbers that Surgeon General Hugh Smith Cumming was led to say: "Influenza is probably more prevalent than at any time during the last five or six years...