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Doctors give part of the credit to penicillin and other new drugs; e.g., deaths from pneumonia, 1930's big killer of youngsters under four, have been cut to onefourth. But medicine has made progress all along the line. Thanks to public-health campaigns and education of parents in diet and child care, there have been far fewer deaths from contagious diseases, tuberculosis, appendicitis, diarrhea, intestinal disease, rheumatic fever...
...longshoremen went to work on her. For the riches in her hold, her captain carried 1,700 manifests. His ship, 16 days out of New York, was crammed with machines, parts, motors, industrial tools, tinware, reinforcing bars, steel beams, yarn, toys, dental equipment, books, refrigerators full of penicillin...
UNRRA had only a tiny medical staff: about 600 doctors, 600 nurses, 60 sanitary engineers, 40 dentists. But it had plenty of miracle workers like DDT and penicillin. To trouble spots, UNRRA shipped: 7.5 million pounds of DDT powder, 809,550 million units of penicillin, one million pounds of sulfa drugs, six million cc of diphtheria toxoid, 5,167 million units of antitoxin. By 1946's end, UNRRA reported, typhoid, which had caused Europe's most serious postwar epidemic, was under control, diphtheria had been greatly reduced, typhus was rare, smallpox and plague had virtually been wiped...
Since then, said Dr. James Crabtree of the Public Health Service, immunization has laid diphtheria low. Better sanitation (including fewer flies because of fewer horses) has knocked intestinal infections, such as diarrhea and enteritis, off the top list. Sulfa drugs and penicillin have taken the edge off pneumonia. Tuberculosis has yielded somewhat to better treatment and early X-ray diagnosis. To take their places, non-germ diseases have moved up. Last year's list: 1) heart disease; 2) cancer; 3) cerebral hemorrhage; 4) nephritis; 5) pneumonia and influenza; 6) accidents (except motor vehicle); 7) tuberculosis; 8) diabetes; 9) premature...
...Navy is using penicillin against yaws with good effect among natives in the Marianas, the Marshalls and the Carolines. The British have used it successfully in West Africa...