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Research, too, is an important function. Every man who has the ill-fortune to collapse with mononucleosis (62 in '51) gets Dr. Andrew Contratto's pamphlet on the disease as part of his Stillman reading-matter. Mono was unknown here until twenty years ago when laboratory blood tests began showing a startling breakdown of white blood corpusles, among other things...
Other major problems are apparent. There are still no medical or infirmary facilities for women students, and the number of women in the graduate schools has been increasing each year. According to Miss Reta Corbett, Stillman superintendant, two girls did manage to lodge in the infirmary for a night each, but it was only because one whole wing was empty...
...Stillman too has its trouble. Miss Corbett and her excellent staff of 15 nurses are making the best of a bad thing. Besides its inconvenient location, the old building has not enough facilities for contagious patients. The private rooms have no running water, and there is, only one toilet a floor. The staff has no access to student's previous records which are in the Hygiene building two miles away, and doors and elevators that won't admit beds are becoming a nuisance...
...opened an office in Wadsworth House and immediately began to plug for an infirmary. James Stillman of New York was the first to heed Bailey's plea. He came across with $150,000, and Stillman opened...
...Bailey wanted more. His first attempt to get compulsory health insurance failed because students balked at Stillman's lack of facilities for contagious cases. During the 19th century the only place a man with measles could go was a dank "pest-house" on Soldiers Field. After this went out of business, people with communicable diseases had to pay the exhorbitant prices of local hospitals or endanger their dorm-mates by staying in their rooms...