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Herbert Hoover: To have reduced the number of cases by more than half and deaths by over two thirds, is an impressive example to the…

On the recordJanuary 6, 1932
To have reduced the number of cases by more than half and deaths by over two thirds, is an impressive example to the rest of the country.
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Herbert Hoover
Republican · California

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Message to the Diphtheria Prevention Commission.

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