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Manthorp also helps each man buy the right correspondent's uniform for the climate he will work in (average cost $358). He sees that they get the right inoculations against as many as nine diseases-typhoid, paratyphoid, smallpox, tetanus for everywhere-plus yellow fever and typhus for the South Pacific or Africa-plus cholera, bubonic and pulmonic plague for Asia (the tetanus inoculations alone take 42 days). And through Lloyds of London we take out a $25,000 personal insurance policy for each TIME traveler...
...their shots Friday with a vengeance--flank movement with merchurochrome, pincers of tetanus and typhoid, and out. But the worst was yet to come, whispered the mob, just wait till it hits...
...entered the University of Missis sippi when he was only 14 (his prep school had closed because of typhoid spread when a pig fell down a cistern...
Along the shambles of the Illinois River and down 218 miles of cluttered Mississippi, the Red Cross and other relief workers rustled up army tents, passed out hot food, herded refugees into improvised typhoid-quarantine stations. Army engineers who had stood guard at flood-menaced war plants, and the 38,000 soldiers who had fought the crumbling levees, now helped the homeless...
...Walter Reed's work on yellow fever is well known. He also headed a board which investigated the cause of typhoid fever's spread among Spanish-American war troops. In that war 86.24% of the deaths were from typhoid; if the same disease rate had prevailed in World War I, half a million men would have had typhoid. Camp pollution, more than drinking water, was to blame. Camp sanitation was reformed and, more important, the Army tried out a vaccine developed in Britain (see cut, p. 75) and made vaccination compulsory. Only 1,572 World War I soldiers...