Word: ingham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major Donald William Ingham of the Medical Service, Camp Crowder, Mo., reported 700 cases of rheumatic fever (heart disease caused by streptococcus infection) at two Army posts. The disease is also frequent in the Navy. Lieut. Colonel Irving Sherwood Wright, chief of medicine, Army and Navy Hospital, Hot Springs, Ark., said that rheumatic fever cases should never be returned to duty; they are often germ carriers, always poor risks if put on heavy jobs. Average cost of an Army rheumatic fever case...