American Scientists to Do Research The news that the American Red Cross and Harvard are trying to raise $100,000 to establish and maintain what is in effect a research hospital in England for the study of communicable diseases in war is of first-rate scientific importance, states the New York "Times." Nearly every war has been followed by epidemics. The influenza pandemic of 1918 accounted for more lives than did shrapnel and bullets on the battlefield. This war is bound to take its toll if for
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