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Died. Vera Brittain, 75, British pacifist and author; of pneumonia; in Wimbledon, England. A World War I battlefield nurse who lost her brother and fiance in the trenches, Miss Brittain lectured widely and wrote with the passion of experience in her descriptive, often brutal, antiwar writings-most notably Testament of Youth, an account of her conversion to pacifism, which was published...
...hospitals, most blacks are sent to the old Cook County Hospital, where they wait an average two hours to be seen, pay $100 a day for beds or are crowded into the hospital's 50-year-old ward. In black ghettos, the infant mortality rate from influenza and pneumonia is 9.8 per 100,000, compared with 4.4 in white poverty areas and 2.6 for all whites...
Says Meharry President Lloyd C. Elam, a psychiatrist: "If you send a patient home after treating him in the hospital for pneumonia, and his home is badly heated, he'll be back with pneumonia again. So you have to do something about heating his home. Or if you've treated a patient for an infection from a rat bite, it's no use sending him home to be bitten again. You have to do something about the rats. That's where the community medical approach comes...
Died. Waldo Peirce, 85. American impressionist painter, a bewhiskered giant of a man noted as much for his exuberant life-style as for his bold, spontaneous art; of pneumonia; in Newburyport, Mass. Peirce lived with all the verve and gusto of his lifelong friend and traveling companion Ernest Hemingway, even to the point of taking four wives and running with the bulls at Pamplona. His splashy, sensuously colored paintings, said one critic, "smell of sweat and sound like laughter...
...sister, Rose Pinneo, a nursing instructor at the University of Rochester, flew down to care for her. Lily Pinneo was dehydrated and had to have her fluid balance restored. Then her chest cavity filled with fluid and had to be punctured and drained. She developed pneumonia. Even after her throat ulcers had cleared, she could swallow only a few sips, and for five weeks had to be fed intravenously. In nine weeks in the hospital, the nurse-patient lost 28 Ibs. and almost all her hair. But, unlike the first two victims, she somehow survived the ordeal...