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...week on account of an epidemic of infantile paralysis, and planned further weekly postponements until frost ends the season of danger. Meanwhile Omaha children may not go to Sunday school, theatres, parks or swimming pools. Omaha has not a single mechanical respirator similar to that in which Frederick Snite was transported from Peiping to Chicago (TIME, June 14), and every Omaha child whose chest was paralyzed this summer has died in spite of efforts by Omaha's fire department's inhalator squad...
...Shanghai, the respirator, continually working, was transferred to a tender and carried alongside the President Coolidge. Then for three precarious minutes the thread of Fred Snite's life was unknotted. That was the length of time it took attendants to take him out of his old respirator, carry him on a stretcher aboard the President Coolidge and insert him in another respirator. The shift was made without a hitch and Fred Snite Jr. sailed for the U. S. prostrate but undismayed. Installed in a twelve-room suite for his parents and medical retinue headed by Harvard-trained Dr. Claude...
...diversion Fred Snite has adjustable mirrors rigged over his upturned face. These enable him to read, play games and to see his meals when they are placed on a table immediately back of his head. When a page of print is laid with its top at his hair, two mirrors enable him to read precisely as though the type were directly before his eyes. A single mirror turns the type upside down for him, but like a printer he can read it that way, too, with great facility. Another new accomplishment: he speaks Chinese...
When Fred Snite Sr. decided to move his paralyzed son from Peiping to Chicago, he first had to arrange for supplies of electricity to operate the respirator's pump. Last week everything was in order. The respirator containing the young man was rolled into an elevator of the Union Medical College Hospital. The electric extension cord to the motor was disconnected. The elevator dropped to the ground level where another extension cord restarted the motor. When the invalid recovered his breath, he was rolled onto a motor truck, where a special gasoline motor was generating electricity. The respirator...
Transferring Fred Snite to Chicago is costing, said his father, $50,000, in addition to the $150,000 he spent during the first 14 months of the illness. Said Fred Snite Sr. just before sailing: "My most valuable possession is in the steel respirator in that room. I told him that all my dollars might as well be wooden, if not devoted to saving his life." Mindful of friends at home, Father Snite, a devout Catholic who sponsors an annual Knights of Columbus golf tournament at Olympia Fields near Chicago every July, is bringing back 1,000 Chinese umbrellas...