Word: typhoid
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...earnest men and women who support the American Social Hygiene Association listened to facts and exhortations. From the President of the U. S. and his wife down to the most blushing volunteer social worker, there was evidenced a determination to make venereal diseases, especially syphilis, as rare as typhoid fever. Repeatedly quoted.was President Roosevelt's recent dictum, first of its kind uttered by a man in his office: "Attainment of your objectives would do much to conserve our human resources and would reduce considerably the present large costs for the community care of the disastrous results of the venereal...
...Snow, general director of the American Social Hygiene Association. They want victims of syphilis (especially) and gonorrhea to cease being furtive about their afflictions and to get treatment. In line with that program every case of those diseases must be registered precisely as though it were a case of typhoid fever. And, as with typhoid fever, health officers must track down the men & women disseminating gonorrhea and syphilis through a community, to see that those original sources of infection get cured. That procedure requires public laboratories where blood tests can be made and pus smears examined. Because great numbers...
...soon as issued. The Coast Guard established headquarters at Evansville, brought 225 of its boats on the scene for rescue work, sent for nearly 200 more from points as far distant as Boston. It had 15 airplanes in action. The U. S. Public Health Service was busy shipping anti-typhoid and smallpox vaccine, diphtheria antitoxin, influenza and pneumonia serum; was mobilizing a corps of sanitary engineers to face new problems as the flood recedes. Revenue agents were ordered to give up "still" chasing and use their cars to transport refugees. Even the Narcotics Bureau was busy shipping supplies of codeine...
...drops 26 ft. in two mi., Louisville watched its west end sink under the yellow torrent which drove 200,000 from their homes. Telephone service was disrupted. The city was put on a two-hour water ration each day. As sewage backed up in the municipal disposal system, two typhoid inoculation stations were established. Bus and trolley service was abandoned and only the Southern Ry. continued running out of town. Electric generating plants by the river faltered, then quit on Sunday night, plunging a city of 330,000 into darkness. All police were put on 24-hr, duty and companies...
...pneumonic or septicemic), parrot fever. In addition to those diseases, in which the Government has special interest, New York City will prevent radio pratique if a ship harbors chicken pox, diphtheria, dysentery (amebic or bacillary), epidemic encephalitis, German measles, measles, meningococcus meningitis, mumps, paratyphoid fever, infantile paralysis, scarlet fever, typhoid fever, or whooping cough. Only ships regularly in the following services may use radio pratique: between New York and European ports, between East and West coasts of the U. S. by way of the Panama Canal, between New York and the Canal, between New York and Bermuda or ports...