“Radio Deafness” Is Affecting Listeners
London, May 19 (AP)—Many persons are suffering from "radio deafness" because they listen-in many hours without removing the ear-phones. Complaints that the phones were losing power led to visits to…
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May 19, 1863 – Cleaning Up Port Royal
A letter from Port Royal, S. C., in the Philadelphia Inquirer says:—"Now that warm weather is fast approaching, the probabilities of yellow fever visiting us are freely discussed. Everything is…
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Spanish Flu Spreads All Over Europe
(By Newspaper Enterprise Ass’n.)
London. Aug. 11.—Influenza “Spanish flu,” as it is called is spreading throughout Europe.
In Europe alone there have been more than 600 deaths from the disease in less than two months. One week in July the deaths in London reached 287. Quinine queues are common sights.
The Fourth and Sixth German armies were out of the fighting for weeks with the disease and great “flu camps” have been established in Belgium and France, where the Germans were sent to receive treatment and to prevent the disease from spreading through the Hun armies.
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October 28, 1862 – The Sanitary Condition of the Army
We have a letter before us from an Intelligent, educated citizen of this State, a non-commissioned officer in one of our late Maine Regiments, from which we make the following extracts:
“We have been put through a pretty hard breaking-in process. Our march through Maryland was a fatiguing one, and the exposure (sleeping in the open air) was a rough ordeal to those of hitherto sedentary life especially. I stood it better than I expected, carrying my musket every day that the regiment moved, though many stout men gave out, who, I thought, could stand much more than I.”
The writer was afflicted with the prevailing army diseases,—diarrhoea, dysentery, and bloody flux,—and was obliged to report him self on the sick list. He was on the doctor’s hands about a week, and says of his treatment—
Bangor Physician Guilty of Abortion
Oct. 16.—(AP)—The jury in the case of Dr. Israel E. Rudman, who has been on trial in the superior court for three days on an indictment for abortion, tonight at…
The Portsmouth and Norfolk Sufferers
The details of these fever-infected localities, instead of affording hope that the plague has nearly expended its power, acquaints us of increased distress and mortality, arousing the feeling, already excited, to a more expanded sympathy In view of these awful, appalling statements, it becomes the duty of our citizens to arouse themselves to further effort for the relief of their truly afflicted neighbors.
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August 15, 1862 – A Grim Catch
From a Norfolk letter of a recent a date we learn that since the battles near Richmond, the Irishmen at Old Point have hauled up in their seines, large numbers…
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December 17, 1861 – Sickness in the Camps
The mortality in our army from camp sickness is probably more than double the casualties of war, and there is now an amount of sickness in the camps that it…
Hospital for Social Diseases Now Advocated
Establishment by the city of a hospital for the treatment of persons who may be a menace to the public health because of acute infection was advocated Thursday by Health Commissioner G. C. Ruhland, as an effective means of combatting the activities of medical quacks.
“Milwaukee has taken some advanced steps to meet the problem of social diseases,” said Dr. Ruhland.
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October 30, 1861 – Health of the Army of the Potomac
It is with much regret that we have to announce the continual ill health of our troops in this department of our army. There is now prevailing in camp, mumps and fever from both of which, many valuable lives are lost. It is useless to consider the cause of disease among our troops, or to enquire why so large a proportion of the sick die.