Word: shellfish
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Dates: during 1924-1924
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...York Board of Health reports 300 cases of typhoid in widely scattered sections of the city. Attempts are being made to locate the source of infection, which a careful inspection of the water and milk supply has failed to disclose. Oysters and other shellfish are under suspicion as possible means of solution. Dr. Frank J. Monayhan, head of the New York Board of Health, attributes the prevalence of the disease to the abnormally dry weather...
...there was abundant water underlying the Sahara Desert, for artesian wells sunk at many points in the great waste, both by the French authorities and by natives, have invariably proved productive. Now, marine life has been found in water drawn from some of these wells-small crabs, fish and shellfish. They are not blind or otherwise abnormally evolved to meet subterranean conditions, as are some of the animals found in Mammoth Cave. But they belong to normal surface species known to inhabit the lakes of Palestine. The excavators are puzzled, but advance the theory that the whole of North Africa...