Word: typhoidal
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When "Big Doctor," as the Indians call him, arrived at Ganado on the Navajo reservation in 1927, after twelve years of missionary doctoring in China, he found the Navajos in a "far sorrier plight than the Chinese." Typhoid, diphtheria and tuberculosis were rampant, and tribal medicine men were about the only "doctors" the Navajos had. Dr. Salsbury got the Presbyterian Board of Missions to build him a two-story stone hospital. He and his wife drove out over the rough wagon trails to drum up trade...
...ground. Around them lay the deepest flood water in local history. They had brought portable oil stoves, bedding and other necessities to the island. The Coast Guard boat brought supplies every morning; the movie house rowed in a new film every night. The State Health Department vaccinated everybody for typhoid and smallpox...
...Provinces." But it would cost him $50 to move to the Punjab-and the meager amount he collects in fares barely pays for food on the black market. Besides, he was still paying off a $200 debt incurred when he had tried vainly to save the life of a typhoid-stricken...
Died. Sir Almroth Wright, 85, whose development (in 1896) of typhoid vaccine saved countless thousands of lives; at Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire, England...
...Poland, one of the hardest hit by disease, there were severe typhoid and typhus outbreaks, but by improving sanitation and shipping in enough DDT to delouse every inhabitant, UNRRA stopped both. In 1946, Poland had only 3,500 typhus cases...