Word: typhoid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Typhoid. Fortnight ago, workmen accidentally let the dirty Genesee River water flow into Rochester's water mains (TIME, Dec. 23). Since the typhoid bacillus may take as long as 42 days to incubate, Rochesterians last week still had days of suspense ahead of them. Many were cheered when a former superintendent of waterworks made the startling confession that the same mistake had been made several times before, "without too much publicity...
...workmen's reports with a pipe map. Suddenly he saw what had happened. Off he dashed to close the valve. But it was too late. Some four million gallons of filthy water from the thaw-high Genesee had poured into Rochester drinking water. The city faced a typhoid epidemic...
Promptly the State Sanitation Department ordered 150 Ib. of chlorine (ten times the normal amount) to be dumped into the water pipes, the Department of Health set up vaccine clinics to help immunize 300,000 Rochesterians against typhoid. The Telephone Company called up its 95,000 subscribers, warned them to boil their water. The Rochester & Lake Ontario Water Service Corp. offered pure water to all who would fetch...
Waterworks Superintendent Lewis Kohl was fired, Assistant Jones suspended. Within 72 hours, 5,000 persons had taken the first in a course of three typhoid vaccinations. From Albany the State Department of Health rushed 46,000 doses of vaccine. A thousand citizens fell ill with minor intestinal disturbances. Since the typhoid bacillus takes from seven to 42 days to incubate, the city remained in dreadful suspense...
...past six years the Department built eleven health centres and a laboratory. Last year nearly 140,000 persons were X-rayed for tuberculosis - an all-time high - and hundreds of new cases discovered. The Department helped diagnose, treat and prevent such diseases as syphilis, gonorrhea, tuberculosis, pneumonia, typhoid, diphtheria. Private practitioners make ample use of the Department's laboratory service, which helps diagnose rare diseases such as parrot fever, leprosy, tularemia (rabbit fever...