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Then Remo, their 14-year-old orphan nephew, came to live with them. Remo had beautiful eyes "framed in long and vigorous lashes." He would bend over them while they were working, and when they felt "his fresh, youthful, fruit-scented breath on their necks and faces, a novel, unexpected feeling of well-being would run through them, bringing with it a swift intoxication, a slight giddiness." Neither of the old maids had the least idea what was creating such havoc in their dried-up bosoms...
...bowels for most of his life, and they never bother him. So doctors did not think it significant when Harry J. Myer, 51, a Singer worker from Grovertown, who died last November of a "liver abscess," was found to have had amoebiasis. But then technicians of the South Bend Medical Foundation, who make the pathology tests for most of the city's doctors, began to find amoeba in more and more stool samples. They reported this to Health Officer F. R. Nicholas Carter. Meanwhile, a second Singer worker who died of a "liver abscess" was found to have...
Cagily, Dr. Carter let the news out in a thin trickle so that Singer workers in particular, and South Bend's citizens in general, did not panic. He arranged to pipe city water to the Singer plant. This week every man jack among its woodworkers began submitting stool specimens for laboratory analysis: as many as 9,000 may be needed over a period of six months. Only then will it be known which workers are clear of amoebae. For the estimated 700 who will get positive reports, there will be immediate free treatment with fumagillin or terramycin. At full...
...South Bend was lucky. The first great U.S. outbreak of amoebiasis came in 1933, when doctors were unprepared...
...Congress and Auditorium Hotels when sewage got into food rooms and water pipes, it was not detected until at least 1,400 victims had scattered across the U.S., caused close to 100 deaths. (Best-known victim: Nightclub Hostess Texas Guinan.) With earlier detection and better drugs, South Bend need fear no such disaster...