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...fought harder against .TB than Florida's William T. Edwards, lay chairman of the state tuberculosis board. A businessman and onetime professional lobbyist for the late Albert I. Du Pont, Edwards spent much of the past 30 years lobbying for anti-TB measures. He wheedled some $30 million out of the legislature for four TB hospitals, plus millions more for other attacks on the disease. But last week Crusader Edwards, now 73, was accused by Florida's leading TB specialists of deliberately wrecking the program he had so laboriously set up. Their argument: Edwards cannot grasp just...
...dispute centers on Edwards' stubborn fight against Florida's "early-release" policy, which has cut the average TB patient's hospital stay from two years to around nine months by using such drugs as isoniazid and para-amino salicylic acid (bought with money Edwards wrung from the legislature). Edwards contends that the drug-treated patients will suffer relapses. When he heard talk this spring that the new policy might eventually allow the William T. Edwards Tuberculosis Hospital in Tallahassee (400 beds) to be converted into a mental hospital, he argued that if Florida disbands its TB facilities...
...instead of emptying the 1,800 beds in Florida's four TB hospitals, the early-release program has kept them from 86% to 96% full by bringing in newly detected cases for quick drug treatment. (Florida reflects the national trend. From 1954 to 1956 the nation's TB beds, excluding those of the Veterans Administration, declined by only 8%, from...
...director of the chest unit at Miami's Jackson Memorial Hospital: "Our relapse rate now is about nine-tenths of i%, which is a fraction of what it used to be when about one out of every three released patients came back." Adds Dr. Roberts Davies, the state TB board's medical director: "I don't know of any informed [medical] opinion that we should keep patients longer than...
Personality & TB. Of the countless individuals who harbor tubercle bacilli, some stay healthy while others fall ready victims to tuberculosis. Why the difference? Housing and hygiene, it has become clear, are only partial answers at best. Reporting on a seven-year study of 1,500 TB patients, Seattle Psychiatrist Thomas H. Holmes gave the American College of Chest Physicians in Manhattan new evidence that TB is triggered by emotional causes. Paralleling a similar British study (TIME, Feb. 11), the findings showed that more than 50% of the TB victims came from homes broken by death, divorce or separation before...