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...food supply is reduced 15% by blockade, another 15% by poor harvests. Not one in a thousand will drive his own car when and where he pleases or read uncensored news or listen to unpropagandized broadcasts. Comfortable clothing will be a luxury. Many will die of influenza, pneumonia, tuberculosis, typhus or cholera. Of Europe's 525,000,000 people, some millions, probably never to be counted, will starve. In this second year of World War II Europe will live in the Dark Ages: in bleak despair from dawn to dusk, in blackness from dusk to dawn...
...everywhere were mild. Most of the victims had only slight fever, sniffles, headache, sore limbs, backache, a tight feeling in the chest. Although Los Angeles had about 50,000 cases, only 70 deaths had been reported at week's end. mostly among people who were finished off by pneumonia. But in many communities, daily life was completely disrupted. Local disruptions...
...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...
...past six years the Department built eleven health centres and a laboratory. Last year nearly 140,000 persons were X-rayed for tuberculosis - an all-time high - and hundreds of new cases discovered. The Department helped diagnose, treat and prevent such diseases as syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid, diphtheria. Private practitioners make ample use of the Department's laboratory service, which helps diagnose rare diseases such as parrot fever, leprosy, tularemia (rabbit fever...
...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...