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WALL STREET JOURNAL...
...true of children's mental illnesses, which are so baffling that they defy classification by the most determined nosologist. Yet the term "childhood schizophrenia" has stuck. There has been an enormous increase in this diagnosis, now "fashionable and much abused," says Dr. Hilde L. Mosse in the American Journal of Psychiatry, and it has done great harm to a lot of children...
Sulfa drugs and antibiotics have worked miracles against most kinds of germs, but with one species, Staphylococcus aureus, their too-liberal use has backfired. Last week US. physicians were pondering massive evidence in the A.M.A. Journal showing that 1) infections acquired in hospitals are a deadly and growing peril; and 2) antiseptic methods are as important as ever...
These resistant strains, the Journal authors agree, are now firmly entrenched in hospitals. Epidemics usually begin in the nurseries. Since the babies do not bring them into the nursery, where do they come from? Usually, the investigators found, from nurses. In some hospitals, as many as 80% of personnel have been found to carry staph in their nasal passages (without apparent illness). The proportion who carry the resistant strains, causing disease outbreaks, may be only 4% to 12%, but once a wave of infections starts rolling, it is hard to stop. Healthy adults have a high degree of immunity...
...contrast, some newspapers handled the story with candor and imagination. Just as Democrats in Washington pedaled hard for political mileage, it was Democratic dailies generally (but not exclusively) that gave the recession the biggest play. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Louisville Courier-Journal and Chattanooga Times were quick to tell readers how the slump was affecting community and family life, personal budgets, taxes, jobs. Marshall Field's Chicago Sim-Times ran a human-interest series on the steel-mill layoffs at Gary, Ind. (and in a story on employment agencies last week unearthed the fact that first-rate secretaries...