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Died. Mabel Normand Cody. 33, onetime cinemactress; at Monrovia, Calif.; of tuberculosis...
Died. William Treyanne Francis, 59, of St. Paul, Minn., U. S. Minister Resident and Consul-General to Liberia, only Negro Minister in the U. S. foreign service; in Monrovia; of yellow fever...
Eight years ago Dr. Francis Marion Pottenger wrote a book, Tuberculosis and How to Combat it, upon the solicitation of patients at his Monrovia, Calif., sanatorium.* His philosophy of treating the disease for 28 years has included psychology with therapeutics. He lectures to his patients, explains to them the various ways that tuberculosis affects various people and their organs, why certain treatments are used, the ways of preventing the spread of infection. By answering all questions and avoiding obscurantism he has kept his patients from worry, that great handicap against treatment. His book, in which he organized his lectures...
...Schwab arrived in Monrovia early in January of last year and remained in the field for eight months. Soon cases of unique ethnological specimens began to arrive in Cambridge, and the mails brought great albums of photographic film, reports, and anthropometric records...
Upon arrival in Monrovia the capital of the republic, medical investigations were immediately entered upon. Eighty six per cent of the children were found to be suffering from the effects of malaria, and, although the percentage decreased as they went inland, it was still found to be over 25 per cent. An incipient epidemic of smallpox in a small village was stopped by medical members of the expedition by isolation of the cases...