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...Brazil is not just thythm and poetry and exquisite color prints. You will walk through Rio de Janeiro, city beneath Sugarloaf Mountain, between Copacabana and Ipanema beaches, but also a city where, two blocks behind a luxury hotel begins a shanty town of 'favelas'" crowded on sewerless hillsides where plague lingers in the streets. Favelas that disgorge beggars who make rich tourists shiver and toss coins. Magic? Hardly...
They live along the Motoyasu-gawa, or River of Eternal Calm, which flows through the now prosperous city of Hiroshima. The river is lined with their tin and wooden shacks crowded together in a sewerless shantytown. After years as outcasts, they are bitter. They feel disinherited by their own government...
...minded doctors went to work on the worst 1948 epidemic within a single county-San Diego. The city of San Diego, they point out in the current Stanford Medical Bulletin, "probably has better living conditions than any large city in the U.S." Nearby is the overcrowded, jerry-built, almost sewerless Mexican town of Tijuana. Every racial group in San Diego, including Mexican immigrants, showed about the same liability to polio (60 cases per 100,000 population). But Tijuana's rate was only one-seventh as great...
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