American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 154, No. 10 : 951-953
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health
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Snippets from the Past: 70 Years Ago in the Journal
From the Department of Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD.
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In 1931, the American Journal of Hygiene published 98 articles. They still tended to be long, averaging just over 16 pages; most dealt with parasitology, entomology, and bacteriology. The proportion of female first authors among those with full first names given dropped slightly, to eight out of 64 as compared with 13 out of 60 in 1930. In marked contrast to today's Journal articles, 46 of the 98 articles had only one author; 34 had only two authors, and 18 had 3–7 authors.
The puzzling fact "that malaria has practically disappeared from certain regions of Europe in recent times without any intentional effort to dislodge it" was discussed by the prominent malariologist L. W. Hackett and his coauthor A. Missiroli in a paper presented at the Second International Congress on Malaria in Algiers (1
). The borders of these low-malaria areas were often clearly defined and were located within malarious
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