Word: mildest
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...medical condition of China is startling in many ways to one accustomed to the sanitary regulations and comparatively wholesome conditions existing in the Western world. Disease from its mildest to its most hideous forms is diffused throughout China's four hundred millions of people. Up to the present time hardly any efforts have been made to deal with the abominable situation in a scientific manner. Ignorance of the sources of disease and of the ways in which disease is spread is universal. The great mass of the people believes that the gods send epidemics, or that heaven wills that cholera...