Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first few days of his incumbency, Captain Wellings noticed a dirty wall (or "bulkhead") and immediately ordered all the V-12ers and NROTCs to scrub the walls and floors ("decks," dammit) of the dorm ("ship") in which they were quartered. This was just before exams, and it didn't help final grades...
...Last autumn, 30-year-old Dr. Richard Henderson, trying to find a vaccine for scrub typhus, died of the disease...
...deaths of Dr. Henderson and Rose Parrott, within six weeks of each other, had spurred Congress into appropriating the money. The lab will be divided into six isolated sections, each devoted to a single type of disease (e.g., tularemia, scrub typhus, influenza, fungus infections). Reporting for work, each Institute employe will doff his street clothes in one room, put on laboratory clothes in another. He will handle germs by slipping rubber-gloved hands into hand holes, under a carefully ventilated glass hood. The automatically sterilized animal rooms will be arranged so that air blows from the worker toward the animals...
...ELAS hospitals herself. Her woman assistant spotted a coal heap, took a taxi out and shoveled it full. Dr. Dodge got the hospital staffs to throw out the fake patients and take care of the real ones. Again she got the Greeks to clean up their hospitals-delouse, scrub, bury the dead and the refuse...
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