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When a doctor finally persuaded her uncle and guardian to find a healthier place, she was installed in a New Jersey "preventorium," an institution where pretubercular children were supposedly toughened up by studying and sleeping in the open air, even in midwinter. Eventually pronounced "cured," the child was first taken in by a white-haired aunt who taught school and believed in iron discipline. And then by her stiff-necked guardian, who lectured her on her father's improvidence and insisted on a budget for her 25 cents weekly allowance: 5 cents for school supplies, 5 cents for the church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: On Their Own ORPHANS: REAL AND IMAGINARY | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

...seventh annual drive for the sale of Christmas seals, the Cambridge Tuberculosis and Health Association mailed 6,185 sheets of stamps to Harvard students last Friday. The proceeds of the sale will be used for continuing the campaign against tuberculosis, the prevention of heart disease, and for furnishing a preventorium to care for children...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Seals Sent Out to Six Thousand Harvard Men | 12/5/1933 | See Source »

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