Word: typhoidal
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...Rockefeller Foundation announced that the result of recent work showed that hookworms and, to some extent, malaria and typhoid are rural diseases. "Attempts to control these maladies," said President George E. Vincent in his report, "have disclosed seriously backward health conditions in the American countryside . . . not due to causes inherent in rural life, but to a failure to extend to the open country the kind of sanitary and health services which have been developed in towns and cities." President Vincent also reported...
...been professor at the University since 1911, as well as being a member of the firm of Hazen, Whipple and Fuller, consulting engineers, in New York. An authority on sanitation. Professor Whipple is the author of numerous works on the microscopy of drinking water, the value of pure water, typhoid fever, state sanitation...
...annual survey of deaths from typhoid fever in the U. S., just completed by the Journal of the American Medical Association, shows that during 1923 every city with a population over 500,000 had a mortality rate under 5 per 100,000 for this disease. As typhoid may be taken as an index of the sanitation of a city, the progress of American communities is encouraging. The first five were Boston, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York with rates varying from 1.0 to 2.4. What the progress has been may be estimated from the fact that the average rates...
Norfolk did not have a single typhoid death during 1923 and Hartford had only one. The cities in the lowest rank were Trenton, and four southern cities: Dallas, Nashville, Memphis, Atlanta. Since Trenton is supplied with filtered Delaware River water, the Journal hinted that an investigation is in order to account for the large number of deaths...
...during 1920 as a result of measles. The cause of the disease is unknown. It is particularly common and severe in schools, asylums, foundling homes. For years medical investigators have been attempting to find some method of protection, comparable to the protection now afforded for smallpox, typhoid, diphtheria. In 1916, C. Nicolle and E. Conseil of the Pasteur Institute in Tunis used the serum obtained from a patient convalescing from measles to secure protection against the disease. Last year F. von Torday collected the records of 2,000 cases in which the convalescent serum had been administered, and found that...