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Show Splendid Results in Good Health Campaign No diphlherUi deaths in V.YSt puis Cambridge, Ma:-s., at the head of the list in diphtheria prevention, of all the cities with populations more than HKJ,-00" HKJ,-00" in the United Staijs. Only once in the last live years, according to t lie American Medical -association, has any city gone a year without a single death from diphtheria. The previous diphtheria record breaker was Puluth, Minn., in ll!,"i. Seven cities with mure than luo.oou inhabitants, hail no typhoid deaths last year, the medical association's statistics show. New Haven. Conn.; Springfield, Mass.; Yonkers, N. Y.; I'alerson. N. J.; Richmond, Va. ; Canton. Ohio; Kansas Kan-sas City, Kan., make up the typhoid honor roll, which is the largest known since studies of typhoid death were started in 1!M3. |