Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died-Sylvester Baker Sadler, 54, justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court since 1921; of pneumonia; in Carlisle...
...noteworthy murder in Chicago last week. Albert B. Courchene, longtime city plumbing inspector, was shot down by machine gunners as he stood on the sidewalk directing two plumbers in a basement. And Walter Stevens, whom police called the "Dean of Chicago gunmen," died at the age of 70 from pneumonia. It might have been a dull period for the nation's crime reporters had not the scene of gangland's Armageddon shifted 973 mi. eastward to the sidewalks of New York. At the end of the week these violent and criminal happenings were recorded: ¶Early one morning...
Died. Rt. Rev. Edward Rondthaler. 88, Bishop since 1891 of the Southern Province of the Moravian Church; of bronchial pneumonia; in Winston-Salem, N. C. For 52 years he conducted the annual Easter sunrise service of the Moravian Church, which with its band music and procession to the cemetery attracts thousands of visitors to Winston-Salem...
Because influenza this year is of a mild type which has not often caused pneumonia,* the health men are not greatly concerned. Nonetheless, Surgeon General Hugh Smith Gumming of the U. S. Public Health Service saw fit to advise the public last week on how to guard themselves. His gist: "Go home and go to bed. . . . Call the doctor . . . remain in bed; eat a simple diet; take plenty of fluids such as water, fruit juices, milk, bouillon and hot soups at frequent intervals. . . . Do not take any so-called cure. There is no specific cure...
...first week of January, 88 populous cities reported 780 deaths from influenza and pneumonia. The same cities reported 810 deaths the corresponding week...