Word: smallpox
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...epidemic of smallpox that last month broke out in Philadelphia, appeared, last week, to have spread to Washington and, in less degree, to Baltimore. Negro quarters of these cities were focal areas for the infection. Mortality was between 11% and 35%, indicating a virulent strain of organism...
...Manhattan sheetlet, The Graphic, ran "screamers" about "two persons known to be dead from tetanus following the injection of pus from diseased animals" in Baltimore. Health officials admitted the deaths from tetanus, then explained to the newspaper that the serum injected was not "cow-pox," but human smallpox, scientifically prepared in the glycerated lymph of calves. "This," said The Graphic, "is little else than a form of variolation which was outlawed by the British Parliament because of its effect upon public health."* The Graphic headlined: IS REPORT OF COOLIDGE'S VACCINATION PUBLICITY STUNT OF PUS TRUST...
...Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming : "Since January 1, 1912, the Public Health Service has tabulated the vaccination histories of 120,501 cases of smallpox. Of this number, 110,075, or 91.35%, never had been vaccinated; 6,610, or 5.48%, had not been vaccinated for more than 7 years, many of them from 10 to 50 years. Of those who had been vaccinated within 7 years, there were 3,810, or only...
...succession of frustrations. Leora's effort for a child was abortive. Arrowsmith's country practice in her home town - Wheatsylvania, N. D. - was satisfying (despite her puny relatives) until he indulged in research to cure a cattle-plague gratuitously, and was over cautious concerning a smallpox scare. The research aroused unbearable little professional jealousies. The pox turned out chicken, not small, and left raillery behind it. So again he cleared out, seeking his chance with a very modern, very shrewd private clinic in Chicago. Such clinics deal in fads, however, not in facts. He was sidetracked again - until...
Eighty-three cases of smallpox in Cleveland since New Year...