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McFarlane also inspected a group of doctors from the Harvard Medical School who, he says, "have been doing remarkable work" on the control of malaria in the Gold Coast Colony. By such measures as moving native villages they have reduced the incidence of malaria to less than one percent...
...Freshmen could be exempted from the course by one or two methods--either through honor grades on College Board exams or by passing an anticipatory test for which a certain group was considered eligible. The total number excused through these channels remained, until June, between twenty and thirty-five percent of each class. When the Board exams were discontinued, the English A Department took its opening and proceeded through the single medium of its anticipatory to pass only five percent of '46. The value of the course for a certain number of Freshmen is not being questioned...
Revealing that only 10 percent of undergraduates were making donations to the Boston blood bank, Barton said, "Ships of our merchant marine are now forced to sail in the dangerous war zones without supplies of blood plasma because of inadequate contributions...
...Russia claims to be well ahead of other nations. Said Dr. Hugh Cabot, famed Boston surgeon, recently: "We are still wondering whether we can get a vaccine for gas gangrene . . . but [the Russians] have the vaccine and they have reduced the fatality rate to about one and a half percent, as against about 50% in the last...
Although 25 percent of the illnesses in the University this week are pneumonitis attacks, Bock said, the disease will probably not reach a stage of the proportions of the 1928 influenza epidemic. It is increasing daily, however, and its future occurrence is still unpredictable...