Show conquering diphtheria modern publicity vieth methods allied with the application on a vast scale of the latest principles of public health administration were so effectively used against dipti diphtheria in I 1 new york rork last year that the disease Is expected to be extinct here within five years such was the purport of the first annual report of the diphtheria commission concerning its work in 1920 under dr shirley W wynne commissioner of health which pointed out that a halt half cen tury ago one out of every two contracting tr the disease died of it |