CONVICTS' AID TO SCIENCE
NEW YORK, September 1. The army honoured 77 convicts in the New Jersey State prison with certificates because they volunteered to •be injected with sandfly, dengue, and other tropical fevers to aid the Medical Corps to learn how to treat the diseases: The principal keeper paid a tribute to them for their unselfish submission for six months to the -experiments which resulted in important medical discoveries.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 7
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70CONVICTS' AID TO SCIENCE Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 7
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