Word: ward
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
Infant T, Infant M and Infant D occupy identical cribs in a small, drab ward on the second floor of Washington's District of Columbia General Hospital. A Fisher-Price mobile dangles above each bed. No one ever visits them. They have never been outdoors...
...babies were born in October, November and December. They have long since outgrown the maternity ward. They are healthy. In fact, there is no reason why any of them should not be home now -- no reason except that they have no homes. Their mothers left in a hurry weeks ago, providing only phony addresses and phone numbers before slipping back to cocaine habits and homelessness. Among the other things they neglected to leave behind for their children were names...
Last November the Department of Health and Human Services, in its first such tally, reported that 22,000 "boarder babies" were deserted in 851 hospitals in 1991. Three-quarters of the infants tested positive for drugs at birth. They had no relatives, only nurses; no world beyond the ward. Some stayed in the hospitals so long they learned to walk there. Most were doomed to an early entry into America's brutal foster-care system, and in the meantime each baby's maintenance cost...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Jeannine Laverty, M.M. Merwin, Maria A. Paul, Jane Rigney, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...