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...Health Service, but 161,000 are in buildings that should be scrapped. Still needed, despite a postwar spurt in hospital building under the Hill-Burton act: some 850,000 beds - 336,000 in mental hospitals. 219,000 in general hospitals. 262,000 for chronic-illness cases, 31,000 for TB patients...
When it was first tested, the newest TB "wonder" drug, isoniazid (TIME, March 3, 1952), seemed just what the doctor ordered. But cautious physicians withheld their verdict; too many promising drugs had already turned into disappointing failures. As reports on isoniazid piled up, doctors began to suspect trouble. They observed that some strains of tubercle bacilli quickly learned to live with the drug, and they worried lest the new bacilli lead to varieties of TB that might be harder than ever to cure...
...French-born Dr. Dubos should go much of the credit for sparking the development of antibiotics-among them streptomycin, first and still the best of the "miracle drugs" which fight TB. But in The White Plague (Little. Brown; $4), Rene and Jean Dubos urge mankind to stop thinking of the disease in terms of drugs and individual patients: "Tuberculosis is a social disease and presents problems that transcend the conventional medical approach . . . The impact of social and economic factors [must] be considered as much as the mechanisms by which tubercle bacilli cause damage to the human body. On the other...
...industrial world. Against it, in a great crusade . . . turned the champions of a happier, more smiling life." The change in attitude came at the same time as a great advance in knowledge. Robert Koch isolated the tubercle bacillus and proved what Italians and Spaniards had contended for centuries-that TB is contagious. Many of the greatest authorities on the disease scoffed, and kept on insisting that the taint was hereditary or connected with climate...
...State Superintendent of Public Health, Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, reported last month that among non-Indians in Maricopa County (around Phoenix) are 11,820 suspected cases; 2,610 of them are active, and of these, only 220 are victims who went west for "the cure." Arizona has the worst TB death rate in the U.S., more than three times the national average...