Word: tolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toll. Outside, doctors, nurses and white-habited nuns of the Sisters of Mercy, many of them sobbing, administered to the bewildered injured and kept count of the rescued. Of the ward's 68 patients, 39 women patients and Nurse Neal were dead. After the injured were tended and the funeral services arranged, the investigators would come, asking a pertinent question: why had the 60-year-old hospital building not been made fireproof? Fire Chief Lester Schick said that almost a year before he had urged the installation of a sprinkler system, but nothing was done about it. At Christmas...
...population, compared with 10.1 in 1947 and 10.0 (the previous low) in 1946. Markedly lower were deaths in childbirth (down 17%) and from syphilis (down 8%). But both heart disease (the heaviest killer-one-third of all deaths) and cancer slightly increased their toll...