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...birth control and fertility service are made. Last year, the Health Department made 2,721 referrals altogether and visited 2,644 homes at least once. Cambridge Visiting Nurses reaches about 200 parental cases a year from Cambridge City Hospital and is referred prenatal cases from Boston Lying In's Clinic. The executive director made a strong statement in favor of a forthright approach to birth control. Even in cases not specifically prenatal (about 800), the visiting nurse will initiate discussion on contraceptive if appropriate. She mentioned the obstacle posed by some Catholic doctors who refuse to prescribe effective methods...
...five hospitals in Cambridge, Cambridge City alone offers a gynecological clinic, and only reluctantly did the trustees permit the dispensation of contraceptive materials through the hospital. Docotrs at Cambridge City do not initiate conversation with patients on family limitation; rather the client must start the discussion and present proof of marriage. Boston Lying-In and Boston City Hospital, recognizing the reluctance of many women to discuss birth control, are more aggressive. The latter provides a post-partum session on maternal (including contraception) and child care and the former offers contraceptive information routinely in the six weeks post-partum check...
...emergency room led to the death of a 15-year-old girl last November. Sent to Cook County Hospital with a physician's note that read "Poss. acute appendicitis," the girl, mistakenly diagnosed as having VD, was given a penicillin shot and instructed to seek help at a clinic. She died of gangrenous appendicitis within 24 hours...
DeFord is treated at a city clinic, then rents a cheap room just off the Bowery, where he plans to wait until the doctors tell him he can go home. He is surrounded by winos, hoods and drug pushers, but he manages to maintain his integrity. Amidst defeat and depravity, he nurtures his memories of the country's reach and grandeur, of the days he spent hunting and fishing, and of his pride in earning his living with his hands. It is Author Shetzline's singular achievement that he keeps DeFord and his memories uncorrupted...
Harriet Baxter, who graduated from Pembroke and holds an M.S.S. from Smith, is a psychiatric social worker at McLean Hospital in Belmont. In 1966, she worked in a British out-patient psychiatric clinic while her husband was a Guggenheim fellow at Cambridge...