Word: lice
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British Untouchables. That the difference between Indian and British slum conditions is largely a matter of scale is revealed by Our Towns: A Close-Up. The insanitary state of the evacuated slum children was comparable to that of the Indian untouchables: about 20% of these children had head lice, especially the young ones and the older girls who never comb their hair in order to preserve permanent waves. More than a quarter of Sheffield's school children had skin diseases (most common: the itch). Many children had never been fed a hot meal, never used forks or spoons...
...grim and war is horrible. It has always been the military man himself who has been the first to point this out, wisely leaving it to well-manicured civilians to sing sweetly of its lice and mud and torture and death. . . . This present tragedy of history is markedly different from its predecessors. In this war the artist is on the spot. Whatever his previous preoccupation with three plums in a silver dish or three girls in a grassy glade, the artist has now been wrenched out of it by the necessity of recording . . . man's reaction to the greatest...
...From Our Towns: Close Up, a new book about the British slum-children evacuees: head lice were found on 20.8% of the Liverpool children, 19.8% of the Middlesbrough children and 17.3%of the Manchester children...
...Body dusting powder is less a luxury than a necessity in tropical warfare. Fungus infections (like "athlete's foot") start and spread quickly in the damp heat. A new after-bath powder contains natural and synthetic insecticides to ward off typhus-carrying lice...
...feet, seven inches tall and was broad in proportion. As a child, says Mrs. Wolfe, Tom was breast-fed "until he was three and a half years old," slept with his mother "until he was a great big boy." Only when Tom got "what old-fashioned people called lice," did his mother consent to cut his "beautiful curls." She still clung to him, however, and kept him in short pants until two years before he went to the University of North Carolina...