Word: smallpox
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...books by the scurrilous reports of her enemies, which were to the effect that she was carrying on an "affaire" with some gallant. These were but malicious lies, and that becomes plainer after reading Madame's description of herself: "I have always been plain, and since I had smallpox have become more so, and my figure is outrageous. I am as square as a dice, my skin is red, tinged with yellow; I am beginning to go grey and have pepper-and-salt tresses; there are wrinkles on my forehead and round my eyes, my nose is as crooked...
...examined them for vaccination marks, vaccinated those who could not exhibit recent ones. Policemen at corners prevented entrance or exit to each street as it went under surveillance. In 24 hours, 10,000 were reported vaccinated. Then health officials announced to a worried public that there would be no smallpox epidemic. Since Jan. 1, 83 cases of smallpox had been reported, 19 of them in one day last week...
...citizen of Windsor, Canada, died of hemorrhagic smallpox, so unusual in character that it was not recognized before numerous persons had come in contact with the patient. Cases soon developed in neighboring cities and in the State of Michigan. During the first six months of 1924, 3,999 cases of smallpox were reported in Michigan, of which 1,532 were in Detroit. From Jan. 1 to May 30, there were 106 deaths from smallpox in Detroit and 27 in the rest of the State. The Health Officer of the Canadian cities involved issued a report on the relation of vaccination...
...success in penetrating the impenetrable, Mr. Marsh attributes largely to ability to win the friendship of the native chiefs. In this case he obtained their trust by getting President Porras of Panama to send them speedy aid during a smallpox epidemic from which they were perishing in helpless isolation...
...have taught people to be clean, wiped out the filth plagues, the black death which killed every other person in London in 1350, and smallpox, which killed every tenth person in New York...