Word: typhoidal
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...rate of only 2.4% despite the primitive operating conditions and the shortage of plasma. With the nurses, they gave 721,370 medical treatments. Besides antimalarial and anti-TB drugs, they passed out truckloads of sulfas, and B 1 pills to guard against beriberi. They fought the threat of smallpox, typhoid and cholera epidemics. After the new arrivals' wounds were dressed, the most pressing problems remaining were the results of poor food and worse housing-or the lack of any. Said Brotherhood Chairman Oscar Alrenano, a Manila architect: "The Mekong can flow with penicillin, but it won't solve...
Link No. 2 came after typhoid from polluted water killed several foreign guests in Calcutta's renowned Grand Hotel and forced it to close. As the onetime haunt of Britain's royalty and India's maharajas became known derisively as the "blackest hole of Calcutta," Oberoi saw an opportunity. He talked the hotel's liquidators into a low-cost five-year lease, although his total resources were $67 in the bank and his mortgaged Simla hotel. He tore out the Grand's rat-infested plumbing, offered typhoid-worried guests unlimited soda water even for washing...
...usually takes weeks for my subscription copy of TIME to find its way here by railroad, truck and mule train; the last mail brought your Sept. 24 issue with John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s story. The following day one of our students died of typhoid fever. In her class, I heard the teacher comforting her pupils with the words you quoted from Laura Spelman Rockefeller, "Children are my precious jewels -loaned me for a season to be handed back when the call comes." Even here in this small town the good works of the Rockefeller bounty is felt. Unaware...
...After weeks of medical detective work, Missouri and federal health officers tracked down a carrier responsible for a typhoid outbreak traced to a July Church of God encampment in Monark Springs. There have been at least 16 cases, at least one death (probably two) among campers. A woman, known to have been a typhoid carrier, had prepared camp food...
Said Dr. Harald Graning, Midwest coordinator for the U.S. Public Health Service and chairman of the meeting: "The guilty food product has to be something that was contaminated at one time, then stored with the typhoid germs still living in it, and then distributed. People are still eating this product, which is probably coming out of a warehouse in limited quantities. If the cases start dropping off, we may never solve the mystery...