Word: typhus
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...first step taken in the University to investigate the outbreak of typhus in Servia was the sending of Dr. Strong from the Harvard-Technology School for Health Officers a few weeks ago. Upon his arrival, Dr. Strong cabled over for a force of twenty-five sanitary inspectors and physicians from the School to aid in fighting the disease...
...formation of a Harvard-Technology group of sanitary engineers and physicians, in order to fight the typhus and cholera in Servia has just been completed, and the group will sail from New York on the Athenia next Saturday. They are being supported by the American Red Cross, and were organized by Professor W. T. Sedgwick from the students of the University Medical School, the Harvard-Technology School for Health Officers, and the sanitary engineering department of the Institute of Technology...
...weeks ago Professor R. P. Strong, of the Medical School left for Servia in company with Dr. F. B. Grinnell and Dr. P. T. Cellards. As soon as they arrived in that country, Dr. Strong realized the serious dangers which threatened there because of the prevalence of typhus and cholera, and immediately cabled over to his associates here for a group of twenty-five doctors and one sanitary engineer. Professor Sedgwick undertook the organization of the group, and has succeeded in securing more volunteers than were needed. Mr. Edward Stuart, a sanitary engineer, has been put in charge...
...George Macaulay Trevelyan, speaking in the Union last night, gave a brilliant description of present social and political conditions in the Balkan peninsula. Coming almost directly from Servia, where he has travelled and studied conditions during the past few months, Mr. Trevelyan told of the terrible epidemic of typhus fever which is now raging there, and of the courageous work which is being done to combat it by British and American doctors and nurses...
PHILIP ALLEN POST, formerly a member of the present Junior Class, died in Newport on Sunday, December 26, of typhus fever. A few of his friends knew of his dangerous illness, but the announcement of his death was a shock for which no one was fully prepared. Although he was in Cambridge but little over a year and a half, he was universally known and was universally liked. The death of any one at twenty-one years of age is always an unusually sad event, but the death of one so bright, so generous, so uniformly good-natured as Allen...