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...credit side can be gauged by New York City's mortality records: if the pre-sulfa mortality rate had prevailed, 10,341 New Yorkers would have died from 1936 to 1941, of 14 diseases now treated with sulfa drugs. Actually only 4,475 died. For every 685 pneumonia deaths there was only one fatal sulfa reaction-a risk doctors and citizens agree is well worth taking...
Died. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, 60, deliverer of the Dionne quintuplets; of pneumonia; in North Bay, Ont. At 4:30 a.m. on May 28, 1934, on his 1,400th maternity call, the short, bespectacled doctor stepped into an unpainted Ontario farm house, worked over Mrs. Dionne for an hour, baptized her five newborn girls against their anticipated deaths, then began to realize that he had made medical history. Son of a small-town doctor, he had nearly missed his M.D. at the University of Toronto in 1907, had treated the prolific French of the Callander region for 24 winters...
...high rates are not easily explained. All that health officials can point to are the increased deaths from pneumonia and meningococcus meningitis (TIME, March 22). A recent Public Health Service survey of absenteeism among industrial workers shows that, in the final quarter of 1942, respiratory diseases were sharply on the rise among the 250,000 men studied. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Statistical Bulletin reports a 5.5% increase in deaths among industrial policyholders and adds some clues on 1943 trends...
...Pneumonia deaths, though low compared with pre-1941 rates, were 21% higher than during the first quarter of 1942. Atypical or virus pneumonia, a lung infection whose cause is not certainly known, was responsible for many cases...
Died. Major General Robert Olds, 46, former Commander of the U.S. Army's Second Air Force; of complications following pneumonia; in Tucson. From a World War I private, he rose to chief of inspection section of the G.H.Q. Air Force (1935-37), was made a major general after his successes as highballing first boss of World War II's Ferrying Command. His ashes were dead-marched into a Flying Fortress at Tucson, scattered by air comrades over the mountainous quarter of the area he commanded...