Word: influenza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...influenza epidemic, which the Hygiene Department doctors report "is not serious," has forced Stillman Infirmary to open an extra ward...
...Infirmary would not release the actual number of students confined to its 115 beds, but it did admit that "a great many people" have registered in the building since the wave of influenza began, a week ago. The Infirmary is almost full now, except for a few rooms left open for an emergency...
Electricity and gas were cut, advertising lights were out, hundreds of passenger trains were suspended, 20,000 dockers at three ports were on strike, 8,000 people had died since Jan. 1 from an influenza epidemic, and the King, his wartime savings exhausted, had to ask the government to take over ?40,000 of his expenses...
Sixty-four influenza-stricken M.P.s (35 Laborites, 29 Tories) got out of bed one day last week, went to the House of Commons, cast their votes. When the sneezing died down, the government had defeated, by 300 votes to 289, another Conservative attempt to topple it. The issue: a Tory motion censuring the government for Britain's critical coal shortage...
Headlined London's Daily : THE BUG is BOSS. It said, "The influenza bug ... can unseat the government any day . . . Government by influenza is the latest phase of a year in which Mr. Attlee has hung on to power by six votes." A greater threat to the government than influenza is an increasing public swing to the right. The latest British Gallup poll showed last week that the government has the backing of only 38% of the electorate compared to 43% two months ago and 46% four months ago. Tory support has increased from 44% four months...