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Writer Calder pulled no punches. Said he: "The lice and flea population is multiplying and that is alarming doctors. . . . Doctors are concerned about the risks of cerebrospinal meningitis, the dreaded spotted fever. ... It has been epidemic for a year, although for obvious reasons little public attention has been drawn to it. Indeed in one week the figure was the highest in the records of British public health...
They got their fake catch past the jealous eyes of fellow fishermen, but the weighing-in officials were harder to fool. Somebody noticed the sea lice clinging to their fish. Sea lice usually outlive salmon by six hours. The lice on the prizewinning fish were dead as doornails...
...complete medical service for very little ($1 to $5 a day) or, if they cannot pay, for nothing. Bellevue, though laboriously breezy and cliché-ridden, gives a thoroughgoing picture of the place-a smell of lysol; a babble of dialects and foreign tongues; tin benches (to discourage lice) in the clinic waiting rooms; tenement mothers cursing their offspring like truck drivers; dozing cops on guard at the bedsides of laid-up malefactors; a sign in the Accident Ward: DO NOT SIGN ANYTHING UNLESS THE NURSE SAYS IT IS ALL RIGHT...
...many, Dr. Zinsser was regarded as the world's leading authority on typhus, the ancient plague which is now known to be virus-borne by human lice and rat fleas. Five years ago, in Rats, Lice and History, he traced with surprising charm the red-brown spots of typhus across world history. This year he announced a method for mass production of a typhus vaccine...
...clear that "R. S." and his old friend Hans Zinsser (Rats, Lice and History-TIME, Feb. 11, 1935) are one and the same man. Thanks to this adroit device, Dr. Zinsser eats, has and hands out whatever cake he pleases. As R. S. he shoots off his mouth to his heart's content...