Word: typhoidal
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...with a capital of $100, he combined with George T. Lanigan, the writer, to establish the Montreal Star. Cancer is the great enigma of medical science. Many of the most dreaded diseases have been brought under control or greatly mitigated-smallpox with vaccine, typhoid fever with chlorination, diphtheria with antitoxin, tuberculosis with an all-round hygienic program, yellow fever with mosquito control, leprosy with chaulmoogra oil, diabetes with insulin. But cancer goes marching on with no apparent check. Indeed, the cancer death rate in the registration area of the United States has risen gradually but steadily until...
...Health Department of a given city--does it do good work? How are the voters to know if the hundred-odd cases of typhoid fever that occur in the city should all be laid as a heavy responsibility on the culpable shoulders of the members of the Board of Health, or if the success of these gentlemen in keeping the number down to such a low figure as one hundred entitles them to the gratitude of the whole body of citizens. Is the infant mortality in the city very low as a result of the conscientious and progressive work...
...Post" promises eloquently to become the premier daily in Britain. The "Telegraph" has begun to deliver its Contest edition to Paris before breakfast,--by airplane. Not to be outdone, the "Daily News" announces that every subscriber may obtain insurance for himself and all his family under sixteen, against mumps, typhoid, or loss of laundry, free. Other papers are taking up the gage of battle and London rocks under the strain. It is interesting to speculate on the adoption of similar policies by our "wide-awake" American press. The possibilities are limitless. Imagine the staid old "Evening Transcript" taking in washing...
Students going to Summer Camp are now being innoculated for typhoid, and are taking their physical examinations. The men will leave for Camp Knox in small groups, each in charge of a student leader, who will be responsible for the arrival of those under his care. These groups will leave Cambridge in the order in which they finish their final examinations; the first groups arriving at Louisville, Ky., which is a few miles east of Camp Knox, on June 17, the day the camp opens...
...believing that infant mortality ought to be reduced as a matter of national necessity. Two lecturers on vaccination will follow. On February 8 Dr. E. H. Ernst will take as his subject "Protection Against Infection in Diseases other Than Smallpox," discussing the value of vaccination in the prevention of typhoid fever and other diseases. Here again the information which the medical profession has acquired during the war will be set before the public...