Word: diphtheria
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...June Total Appendicitis, 4 4 5 1 4 3 5 6 1 33 Chicken-pox, 4 1 1 6 Colds, 1 136 190 165 277 168 248 115 91 5 1396 Constipation, 4 8 1 1 14 Diarhoea, 47 39 26 20 7 18 18 9 184 Diphtheria, 1 2 6 1 1 1 12 Ears, 4 5 5 5 4 7 11 2 43 Eyes, 29 42 32 29 38 28 23 25 13 259 General Debility, 3 10 13 11 10 8 19 6 10 5 95 Headache...
...Tonsititis, 0 9 16 22 54 53 26 15 15 3 213 Measles, 0 0 0 0 3 25 27 36 12 3 106 Chicken-pox, 0 0 0 1 1 1 4 4 0 0 11 Mumps, 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 29 12 0 44 Diphtheria, 0 0 1 0 0 1 2 1 0 0 5 Scarlet Fever, 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 3 Eye troubles, 0 21 31 38 24 47 31 42 29 3 266 Headache...
...Boston dailies calls attention in flaring head-lines to "An Epidemic of Contagious Diseases at Harvard," stating that "an epidemic of grippe, measles, scarlet fever, and diphtheria threatens the Colleges, etc." The actual facts are as follows: -Since the opening of the College year there have been two cases of diphtheria, one of scarlet fever, twenty-one of measles, and a few more of la grippe, neither of the last being in sufficient numbers to constitute an "epidemic" among a student population as large as that of Harvard. M. H. BAILEY...