Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Against this possibility of a secure old age the occupational diseases of the geisha seriously militate. Despite the fact that the girls are examined every two weeks and are sent when necessary to the splendidly equipped Yoshiwara Hospital the toll of rinbyo, baidoku and raibyo is as heavy as in the Occident...
Frequency. "At and beyond the age of ten in the life table generation of 100,000 persons there would have occurred fifteen years ago 5,874 cancer deaths to the end of life. In 1924, among a similar group of persons at the age of ten, the total cancer toll would have been 8,652. That is to say, the probability of ultimately dying from cancer was increased 47.3 per cent. In 1910 the cancer budget in the life table generation of 100,000 females at the age of ten was 9,850. But under the conditions of 1924 that...
...Menchenustically minded may object to the culture-colored conviction of its toll. No other could object. Bells enough there are of the efficiency variety. This is not an efficient bell. It might have hung there for centuries. The tone is ancient--deep throated--a voice worthy to sound above "the urban noises" of an urbane Cambridge...
Descending the grand terraced walls of the Italian slope, Prince Chichibu and his party escaped the addition of a death toll to the list of 21 brave Alpinists who have perished on the Matterhorn. Next day, indefatigable, he scrambled up the Rothorn (13,855 ft.) in seven hours. "My muscles," he said on again reaching Zermatt, "have become like whipcord...
Confused despatches put the death toll between 10 and 50. Some 400 were injured. Bubonic plague appeared, killing two. The balance of Horta's 8000 inhabitants moved to the country or set up tents on their tennis courts. "Earthquake love" spread everywhere-the human sympathy and mercy that is always stirred up by great disaster. Portugal, whose possessions the Azores are, rushed portable houses and more tents to the scene. None of the various trans-Atlantic cables for which the Azores are a station were broken...