Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...further loans, he would "cash" another bill of exchange with another bank and repay the loan at the first. Last spring his respectable backers had enough. They resigned from the boards, refused him further financing. In June, his companies crashing around him, Peter abruptly put himself into a private sanatorium where no visitors were allowed. But one visitor got through anyway: Chief Detective Superintendent Robert Stevens of Scotland Yard's Fraud Squad, who arrested Baker for "uttering forged documents." Baker, it turned out, had forged the signatures of Docker and Mann to the bills of exchange. The forgeries...
...moved to Bloomingdale, in a remote section of New York's Adirondack Mountains, and three years later to nearby Saranac Lake. Inexplicably, he began to recover in the cool, fresh air. In 1885, on a $350 gift from a friend, Trudeau founded the. U.S.'s first TB sanatorium (first patients: two consumptive factory girls). Trudeau shunted patients out into the biting mountain air, made them sleep, bundled snugly, under the sky. They drove through the Adirondacks, picked wild strawberries and raided maple trees in late winter for sap. Prodded by desperation and Trudeau's apparent miracle-working...
This week Director Gordon Meade (Edward Trudeau died in 1915) announced the closing of Trudeau Sanatorium. Trudeau will henceforth devote its $1,800,000 plant and $3,000,000 endowment to basic research in tuberculosis and allied diseases. As a sanatorium, Trudeau was a victim of success. In the past year, only 60 patients, about a third of capacity, came to be cured at Saranac, leaving Trudeau with a deficit of $90,000. Public hospitals are handling more and more TB patients; wonder drugs make possible extensive home and outpatient treatment; and the importance of climate in treatment has been...
Alvina Page, 33, a waitress, was in the Julius Marks Sanatorium at Lexington, Ky. when a tough new state law went into effect, making it a crime to expose others to communicable tuberculosis. This did not stop Alvina Page. Though she had been under streptomycin treatment for communicable TB in both lungs, she walked out of the institution against the doctors' advice, went home to her husband and two children...
Last week, Police Judge Thomas Reedy made an example of Waitress Page, the first TB victim taken to court under the law: a $500 fine and six months' imprisonment, to be served under medical treatment at the sanatorium. If her disease is still rated as communicable at the end of the six months, she can be legally compelled to stay until doctors discharge...