Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Energetic Fritzie Zivic, onetime world's welterweight champion who had once licked pneumonia, Henry Armstrong and everything else in sight, began to retire-by slow degrees. He had three kids and enough money, he kept telling himself; he was always dabbling shrewdly in dry cleaning stores and peanut stands. He retired in Pittsburgh, retired again in California after his nose was pushed crooked again. His departure got so gradual it made the farewells of Patti, Sarah Bernhardt and Schumann-Heink look like hasty decisions...
Died. Ogden Mills Reid, 64, editor-publisher of the Republican New York Herald Tribune, son of Tribune editor Whitelaw Reid, onetime U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's; of pneumonia; in Manhattan. A year after his father's death in 1912, he became editor of the Tribune, eleven years later purchased the New York Herald (founded 1835) and its Paris edition. With his wife as partner, he directed a paper that gave Manhattan its best local news, that offered foreign coverage surpassed only by the rival New York Times...
...with only ten states reporting, the ten leading causes of death were: 1) pneumonia and influenza; 2) tuberculosis; 3) diarrhea, enteritis and intestinal ulcers; 4) heart disease; 5) cerebral hemorrhage; 6) nephritis (kidney inflammation); 7) accidents; 8) cancer; 9) diphtheria; 10) premature birth...
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...
...Pneumonia and tuberculosis are still losing ground as causes of death. When they are gone, the fight against killing germs, perhaps the greatest constructive achievement of the 20th Century, may be nearly...