Word: pneumonia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each citizen, New York has a good health record. In 1939, out of a population of 7,500,000, deaths totaled 75,439, second lowest rate for the city ever recorded (lowest: 1938). There were large decreases in maternal and infant mortality; in deaths from scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid, pneumonia, meningitis, measles...
...There is a tendency for marital partners to die from the same cause when one of the mates dies from either tuberculosis, influenza and pneumonia, cancer or heart diseases...
London had its 200th raid alarm. Liverpool had its 145th since Aug. 1. Serious spot damage fell upon Liverpool docks, factories, stores, office buildings. People flocked into the Mersey tunnel, risking pneumonia. The industrial Midlands came in for 24 hours of "hammer blows," but a correspondent who had just toured from Newcastle and York through the Midlands reported their production capacity virtually untouched. To raise morale and production, honor badges were issued to aircraft workers who stayed on the job throughout raids...
Died. Walter H. Pollak, 53, lawyer who twice obtained review of the Scottsboro trials by the U. S. Supreme Court; of pneumonia; in Post Graduate Hospital, Manhattan...
Died. Marguerite Clark, 53, onetime silent cinemactress; of pneumonia, after five days' illness; in Manhattan. Cincinnati-born, she co-starred at 15 with De Wolf Hopper. She appeared in Victor Herbert's famed Babes in Toyland and in 1915 went to Hollywood to make such films as Snow White and Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. Peer of Mary Pickford, fairy-like (4 ft. 10 in.) Marguerite Clark retired in 1920, wed Harry Palmerston Williams, late (1936), wealthy, Louisiana cypress heir and maker of fast Wedell-Williams airplanes. Said she of her career: "I knew enough...