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...candid stupidity." He sings from 1 p.m. to 11, spends more than half of what he earns on supper, then sings until 2 a.m. before hopping the bumper of the last tram. He is six years old. ¶ Victorita is 17 and well built. The boy she loves has TB and lies in bed all day long. He warns her not to kiss him or she may catch his disease, but she kisses him anyway. One day, pale and haggard, she tells him that he can be cured with medicine and plenty of food. Her voice thick, she adds...
...serving 20 years for attempted arson. Paul's reputation as the ace of all incorrigibles earned him a more or less permanent home on St. Joseph. He wrote frequent obscene letters to the prison governor, went out of his way to plague the warden, tried to give himself TB, practiced acrobatics on the grate of his solitary cell, and indulged in many other pranks. For each offense he got 30 extra days in solitary until at last he had piled up more than ten years in penalties. The authorities gave up, took him to the mainland, where he escaped...
...only that Alabama is relatively poor. So is, or has been, many another Southern state. But some, such as North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, have done a first-rate job of checking and treating TB. Not so Alabama. Alone among the states, it imposes no statewide rules for the care of patients and assumes no overall responsibility for them. It has appropriated only $450,000 for their care this fiscal year, as against $2,650,000 for Tennessee and $3,137,000 for Georgia...
Negroes' Plight. Alabama has 11,500 known cases of tuberculosis, of which no less than 3,000 were newly reported in 1952, and an estimated 8,000 more cases undetected and unreported. Each year it has 600 TB deaths, many among back-country folk who did not know they had the disease. But even if their cases had been detected, they would have been little better off: for TB patients, the state has only 720 beds (some of them in tumbledown shacks dating from 1924). By the most conservative standard, it needs at least 1,000 more beds. Negroes...
...Pennsylvania laid the basis for continuing betterment. More unsuspected cases are being found through mass X-ray programs, and 36 centers for surgical treatment have been set up. Vaccination with BCG is being tested. However, Pennsylvania still needs nearly twice as many beds as it has (3,902) for TB patients...