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...Health Commissioner Robert P. Whalen reports that about 20% of the 300,000 children due to enter first grade have not been immunized against polio, measles or rubella. Most of them are not even protected against diphtheria, the vaccine for which is included in the three-way D.T.P. (diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis) shots that have long been standard treatment for all infants. In some areas, Whalen says, less than half of the entering class have been immunized. There have been similar or even greater drop-offs in vaccinations among preschool children in most other states...
...Halffter's Proclamation for a Poor Easter. "I managed to get a handkerchief out of my pocket during a brief pause in the music," said Serebrier. "I stuffed it into my hand and made a fist and continued that way for another 20 minutes until the finale." After tetanus shots and a night's rest, he promised to fulfill the rest of his engagements, "but without a baton...
...reached 48 and was expected to rise; at least 900 were injured and 100 missing. Nearly half the population were without even the shell of a home for shelter; the city had no potable water, power or a working sewage system. Relief officials feared outbreaks of cholera and tetanus induced by contaminated water supplies and inadequate medical treatment...
...into it for sanctuary were killed. Since then, wounded civilians have been cared for in a pagoda in Phu Due. There are no beds and few mats; most patients lie on the dirt floor or on bundles of rags. A child died of lockjaw because of a shortage of tetanus serum. Her body lies twisted like a snake under a shroud of rags. Two feet away an old woman is dying of malnutrition. She had stayed in her bunker for well over a month, switching from boiled rice to rice soup as her reserves dwindled, then to anything edible...
...trouble is expected. Tkach, who supervised Nixon's annual physical examination at Bethesda Naval Hospital last December, reports that the President is in excellent health. But the doctor is taking no chances. Tkach is updating Nixon's inoculation record for yellow fever, plague, cholera, typhoid, typhus, tetanus and smallpox, though China has brought such infectious diseases well under control. Bottled water will be taken along, though Ward's tests showed that the local supply will not trouble American digestive systems...