Word: wassermanns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Head of the bustling Central Harlem Health Center is young Dr. John Baldwin West. No chair-warmer, Dr. West often marches into theatres, churches, basements, schools, apartment houses, exhorting Harlemites to visit the Health Center for X-rays, Wassermann tests, infant care. In the last three years, Dr. West and his staff of 200 have X-rayed 250,000 people, have lowered the infant mortality rate from 100 per 1,000 to 52, the maternal mortality rate from 18 to five. Over 500 patients a day visit a venereal disease clinic in the Center. But for all his efforts...
...matter where the 250,000 nomads wander, 100 nurses and doctors of the California State Board of Health pursue them in shiny station wagons, inoculate them against typhoid and smallpox, take X-ray pictures of their lungs, give them Wassermann tests and treatment for syphilis. In 1939, reported State Health Director Walter Murray Dickie last fortnight, there were no first-class epidemics among the "Okies," although there were 696 cases of smallpox, 280 of malaria. Strangely enough the incidence of venereal disease among the migrants is lower than among native Californians, and they have relatively little tuberculosis. Greatest plague: dietary...