Word: small-pox
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...speech to an audience of 300 in the Yenching Auditorium, Perez de Cuellar spoke of such past U.N. achievements as small-pox control, reductions in worldwide illiteracy and malnutrition, and actions to combat worldwide pollution, desertification, and overpopulation...
...that the Elders were unpatriotic. The Constitution of the Commonwealth was framed in the old meeting house, and the General Court convened there, until a small-pox epidemic drove the austere legislators away. During the Revolution a provincial congress appeared in the church, and Lafayette himself smiled benignly from the Commencement platform in 1824. But the glorious days of the meeting house were about to end. A schism between Unitarians and Trinitarians resulted in the abandonment of the church by both parties...
...completed. Princeton's "Old Nassau" goes back only to 1756. Massachusetts faced the original Harvard Hall which was destroyed by fire in 1764, and was itself saved by the exertions of neighbors and the members of the General Court, which at the time was there meeting because of a small-pox epidemic in Boston. After the battle of Lexington the students were removed to concord, and there recited in the court house, the hall becoming a barracks for the Continental soldiers, while Wadsworth House, also still standing, became the headquarters of General Washington. In 1827 Massachusetts was renovated and remodelled...
...have demonstrated the very great value of anti-typhoid inoculation in preventing typhoid fever, not only in the army but also in civilian population. The anti-typhoid inoculations are now regarded as much a part of the necessary equipment of those going to the war zone as vaccination against small-pox on a healthy body. All the members of the Harvard Unit that recently sailed for the American ambulance received the inoculations...
...greatest problem of all to be solved was that of sanitation, the problem that the French never solved. Through the wonderful work accomplished by Colonel Goethals, the death-rate, which in 1906 was 41 per thousand laborers, was reduced in 1908 to 13 per thousand. Yellow fever and small-pox, which had previously carried off thousands of men, were completed wiped out. The money expended in bringing about this reform will be $20,000,000 before the canal is finished, but it is estimated that already over 15,000 lives have been saved because of improved sanitary conditions...