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...taxi driver in his youth, veteran of World War I, Dan Arnstein had pounded his way up until he owned and operated the Terminal Taxicab System of New York City. Smooth with success, hard-muscled with exercise, at 50 he had offered himself in a burst of patriotic fever to the Government for $1 a year...
...money spent for this nonproductive work has shown results. In spite of dire predictions, Britain is extremely healthy after a year of total war. Deaths from many diseases have dropped sharply (partly, doctors think, because of healthier diets enforced by rationing) and only cerebrospinal fever, the '"disease of overcrowding," has shown a heavy increase. The big job of cleaning up bomb damage, demolishing Blitzed houses, repairing buildings and roads, is full-time work for 80,000 men, with the result that the country shows far fewer scars than it might after nearly a year of air raids...
Schoolmaster Tewkesbury got the highway fever in 1937. In 1938 he made his way by train, bus, airplane and on foot over the proposed highway route as far as Panama. There an engineer told him that the jungle section to the south had a reputation worse than any bush country in Africa; that a dozen explorers had tried, but none had gotten through; that no white man had ever made the trip; that this jungle was an insuperable barrier to the highway. To Schoolmaster Tewkesbury the word "insuperable" was an affront to Americanism...
Best treatment, says Dr. Harris, is prevention. He suggests that undulant fever should be prosecuted as bovine tuberculosis now is: let Federal inspectors track down all infected animals, kill them, recompense the farmers. He also believes that States should pass laws enforcing pasteurization of all milk...
...island of Malta, British soldiers who drank infected goats' milk came down with the disease. Until recently it was widely known as Malta fever...