Club Group Makes Tour Of Laboratories
Many Heart Victims
Later Become Able
To Return To Work
Heart disease victims who recover
from an initial attack have a good
chance of living for many years, ac
cording to Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company statisticians. This is indi
cated in a study of survivorship among
a group of white men insured as stan
dard risks who subsequently became
disabled by heart disease, but later re
covered sufficiently to be considered
able to return to work.
More than 70 per cent of the group,
regardless of the type of heart ailment
causing disability, were still alive after
five years. Of those who had been dis
abled solely by arteriosclerotic heart
disease, about 85 per cent were living
at the end of five years, and 70 per cent
at the end of 10 years.
Survivorship was somewhat less fa
vorable for arteriosclerotic cases with
a coronary occlusion history, although
even among them more than 50 per cent
survived for 10 years.
Can Resume Work
The study indicates that resumption
of activity by persons with heart di
sease is often practicable, according to
the statisticians. As may be expected,
the survivorship record of these men
was below the average for those with
out heart impairments. The picture is
hopeful, however, when account is taken
of the fact that these persons with
heart disease have been seriously dis
abled for extended periods of time, thus
representing cases of more than aver
age severity.
“A prime obstacle to the rehabili
tation of cardiacs is their fear that
work will be hazardous,” it was ob
served. “Under good medical super
vision a large proportion of patients
with heart disease can resume work
and activity suited to their physical
capacity, and by so doing benefit both
physically and psychologically.”
Baby Beds Are Sought
For Tri-City Hospital
The Woman’s Auxiliary of Tri-City
Hospital has undertaken to relieve the
shortage of baby beds at the hospital
by calling on the people of the com
munity to donate used baby beds for
this purpose. All types of baby beds or
beds for small children are wanted so
long as the beds are substantial and
capable of being put into usable con
dition.
Community people who wish to do
nate a baby bed to the hospital are re
quested to contact Mrs. Irma Hoehl,
telephone 27, Leaksville, who is in
charge of the baby bed project for the
Hospital Auxiliary.
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Members of the sub-group of the
Leaksville-Spray Junior Woman’s club
are shown in the physical testing lab
oratory at Fieldcrest where they visited
March 25 as their program devoted to
“The Woman in Industry.” Mrs. Louise
Landress, head of the physical testing
laboratory, spoke to the group concern-
d 9
ing her work at Fieldcrest
demonstrations of the equipW'
in the quality testing of Fielder®®
tiles-
In picture, Mrs. Landress
the Shedometer, one of the
formed in checking the finish
kets.
Ministers See Karastan Operations
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The Rev. Ernest Drabert (2nd from
right), pastor of the Moravian church
at Graceham, Md. and the Rev. H. G.
Foltz (extreme right), pastor of the
Leaksvilla Moravian church, were re
cent visitors at the Karastan Rug Mill
where they toured the various depart
ments and observed the various steps
in the manufacture of Karastan Rugs.
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The Rev. Drabert was in LeaKS''*^^,j
conduct a meeting as a part of
in the Mof® f
gelistic campaign
Southern Province. ^
Connell, industrial chaplain
crest Mills, who served as guide
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The Rev. J-
at left. The
tour, is shown
are pictured in the Burling
Harold Young, assistant forerns
plains Karastan operations.
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