Word: kitt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...worm as slim as a horse hair has sewn a cloak of fear about the misshapen Negroes of St. Kitt's (St. Christopher Island, among the British West Indies), and patched it with deaths. Over the 65 square miles of the island grief croons. Trading ships scurry from the swash of the Caribbean against Basseterre. A sort of pestilence is on the people. Dozens have died. Last week a white man, Dr. J. J. Pawan, bacteriologist, reached there by Pan-American plane from Port of Spain, Trinidad, and found the deaths due to a filariasis...
Filariasis rarely kills the victim directly. The St. Kitt's deaths were due to superimposed infections. No drug is known which will rid the infected human of the worms or their larvae. All that Dr. Pawan could recommend on St. Kitt's was that the inhabitants prevent mosquitoes, the intermediate hosts of infection, from breeding (by filling or oiling stagnant puddles and pools) and that they screen themselves from bites...
...Eight Vice Presidents General were elected for a three-year term: Miss Anne W. Lange, Dallas, Ore.; Mrs. Paul Duane Kitt, Chillicothe, Mo.; Mrs. Logan S. Gillentine, Murfreesboro, Kan.; Miss Amy Gilbert, State Center, Iowa; Mrs. Norval Smith, Warren, Ariz.; Mrs. Edith Scott Magna, Holyoke, Mass.; Mrs. T. W. Spence, Milwaukee...