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...yesterday evening, the total death toll from the blizzard taken from late last week when the disturbance began, climbed above 65. Weather-induced heart attacks, fires, disasters at sea and automobile accidents accounted for most of the fatalities...
...estimates that there have been four victims in his state-with 1,628 cases, the nation's hardest hit-for every one reported. In Colorado's heavily Mexican-American counties along the Ar kansas River, the hepatitis rate is so high that the state's 1960 toll (903 cases) already is the worst in its history. Oregon has reported 950 cases...
...sponsored by Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church, Director Arthur Tingue is convinced that ministers' wives can cope with the physical aspects of their jobs, but not the psychological. "Ministers are underpaid," he says, "but wives are expected to maintain middle-class homes." Sexual difficulties produce a high toll. "Ministers seem to attract women who are not very responsive. Then the women find their husbands as active sexually as other men, and they are subject to pressure and accusations of frigidity...
Threat to the Brain. The exact toll of measles illnesses and deaths is not known, the researchers note in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 1958 (most recent year for which full figures are available), 552 U.S. deaths were officially listed as caused by measles, as against 255 by poliomyelitis. Measles kills in many ways. The virus is sometimes the direct cause of fatal pneumonia, but more often it is the precursor of a bacterial infection. Measles also has a tendency to attack the middle ear, which may lead to permanent deafness (occasionally total) on both sides...
...hospitals and some to their graves. The heat was a burning question for laymen and military surgeons. But two doctors write in GP (published by the American Academy of General Practice) that civilian physicians pay too little attention to its dangers, and unwittingly contribute to the heat's toll of illness and death...