Word: bronchial
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...This is the cycle year for influenza. ... In every shelter I've been in during the past six weeks I've heard that hacking 'shelter cough' and the wheezy sleep of the bronchial cases." Writer Calder advanced a program of shelter-life improvement and said: "The War Office must see this not only as a social measure but as a first-class military issue." He called for immediate evacuation from London of women, children, aged & infirm; for reform of shelter life to include better sanitary facilities, daily inspection by medical officers and cleansing by trained squads...