Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although a citizen of the Netherlands, de Jonge came here from Switzerland, where his father directed a sanatorium for mental diseases. Previous to his enrollment here, the young Dutchman had built a planetarium of his own in Switzerland, and he selected Harvard because of the excellent facilities offered by the University Observatory...
...whole country there are only some 1,000 special sanatorium beds to tide victims over their long, hazardous convalescence. In most cities the disease is not reported to the board of health. And there is no central, coordinated plan of attack; the U.S. Public Health Service and the American Heart Association compile statistics, stimulate research, run good clinics, but cannot get the public interested...
...Buenos Aires sanatorium last week things began to look up for darkly pretty, tuberculous, 22-year-old María Beatriz ("Mariquita") del Valle-Inclán. Many newspaper-reading Argentines were happy for her. It seemed at last that she might be saved both from tuberculosis and from the vengeance of Spain's Francisco Franco -which extends even to sick young girls...
...Franco suppressed the books of Ramon del Valle-Inclán. But almost simultaneously an edition of his works was brought out by an Argentine publisher, sold heavily throughout South America. Royalties were sent to the author's widow and children. Tuberculous Mariquita used hers to enter a sanatorium near Molinari in the Argentine uplands...
Last July Mariquita was rushed from her sanatorium to the Spanish steamship Monte Albertia in Buenos Aires harbor. The sisters of the sanatorium tipped off Buenos Aires newsmen. Theiraccounts of the case stirred up local lawyers, who got the ship's surgeon to examine Mariquita. He testified that she had a high fever, might not survive the voyage. For this he was arrested by the Spanish captain and thrown in the brig...