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...years ago, changed it from a struggling Negro social center to a flourishing institution dedicated to helping Southern rural Negroes adjust to Northern city life. He upped its budget from $17,000 to $250,000, its staff from 17 to 70, set up a nursery school, opened clinics for TB and dentistry, organized classes in sewing, cooking and upholstery. Planner House now provides everything from a full-fledged cannery to individual garden plots. The motto of the house: "The door to self-help...
Knowing this, Drs. John Kurtzke and Louis Berlin jumped to no conclusions when a multiple sclerosis patient, treated with isoniazid for bed sores, began to speak so that they could again understand him. Instead, they tested isoniazid, the TB wonder drug, on 30 patients at the Veterans Administration Hospital in the Bronx. Three received no benefit, but 27 improved, and by a wider margin than previous M.S. patients who had been given other treatments. Most encouraging was the fact that four patients improved when they were given the drug and relapsed when it was stopped, then improved again when...
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...
...Syracuse, N.Y., the Post-Standard printed an angry editorial complaining that far more money is raised for polio than for cancer, heart disease or TB-which have far higher death rates. It quoted handy backyard statistics reporting fewer cases in upstate New York than in recent years, accused the foundation of being greedy and extravagant...