rtuberculosis Is
Claiming 40,000
Litres Each Year
iloiw‘1 .ary Cost Alone Rum
Monj- Than $35,000,000
In'* Nation Annually
The tremendous cost of tuber
ulosis ]“n terms of fives, sufferi
ng, and dollars is tmphasized in
he 194T-50 annual report of the
'Jationali Tuberculosis Association,
Pleased V yesterday bv Dr. James
C. Perki/ns, managing director.
KillinL more than 40,000 per
sons a Jyear, tuberculosis is re
iponsible for more deaths in this
founty yhan all other infectious
iiseasesf combined and leads all
.UseasesA infectious or not, as a
cause of death in the age group
from 15 ■ to 34
While' the tragic cost of tuber
culosis itji broken lives and brok
en horryes cannot be calculated,
the report states that the mone
tary cost of tuberculosis is esti
mated at more than $350,000,000 a
year. Included in this sum is the
cost of care of and services for the
quarter of a million people known
I to have the disease and the search
i for an equal number believed to
j be tuberculosis victims but un
1 known to health departments. The
sum does not include hospital con- j
struction costs.
Since the median age at which
j tuberculosis kills is 48, the report j
J brings out that the disease each !
! year is robbing the people of this j
country of 1,500,000 potential;
[years of life, one million of which
[are working years. (These esti
j mates are based on a life expec
| tancy at birth of 65 and a work
; ing age limit of 65 years.)
| Yet tuberculosis, a communica
i ble disease, is also a preventable
disease, the report states, and can
be brought under complete con
trol if the present campaign of the
medical profession, the voluntary
tuberculosis associations, and of
ficial health agencies ts stepped up
| and relentlessly pursued.
Cited among the outstanding re
quirements to fight tuberculosis
SOUTH KOREANS CROSS BRIDGE AFTER BURNING TANK
BRIDGEHEAD RESISTANCE by a Communist burned-out tank (lower, right) failed to halt a river crossing by
troops of the Republic of Korea 8th Division at Yongju. Korean engineers patched up the bridge for oncoming
units moving against the fast-faltering enemy. (United States Army Photo Jrom International Soundphoto'
arc a program geared to the needs
of the day; further medical ad
vances in the research and educa
tional fields as well as in the dia
gnosis and treatment of the di
sease; more local health units to
serve the health needs of all the
people; a public better educated
in the prevention and control of
tuberculosis; more widespread ef
forts to find people with tubercu
losis while the disease is still in
an early stage; more hospital beds
for tuberculosis patients; more
nurses trained in the care of the
tuberculosis; improved services
for tuberculosis patients, and in
ternational control of the disease.
While the prediction may be
made at some time in the future
tuberculosis may become a med
ical rarity, the report stresses that
close vigilance will always have
to be maintained against it. It
was already 'been the target, ac
cording to the report, of the "most
widely organized, longest sustain
ed, most productive campaign
ever directed against a disease."
The campaign was launched in
1D04 with the organization of the
NTA, which today has 2,987 af
filiated associations in the 48
states, the District of Columbia,
Alaska,' the Canal Zone, Hawaii,
and Puerto Rico.
'The very communicability of
the disease, which makes the cam
I paign against it practical and pro
gressive," states the report, “is
the factor that will demand in
defintelv the enforcement of prov
ed preventive procedures.”
The 1948 Christmas Seal
brought $20,22(1,794,15 for the sup
port of the work of the National
Tuberculosis Association and its
affiliates, Dr. Perkins reported. Of
this sum, the National received
5 per cent and 95 per cent was
retained within the state where it
was contributed to support state
and local programs Beginning
with the 1950 Christmas Seal
Sale, which opens ‘November 20,
the National percentage, said Dr.
Perkins, will be six cents of each
dollar contributed, with at least
one-sixth of this (1 per cent tie
voted exclusively to research.
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Honor Allied Dead
* mam
AT REIT under three flags, the field
ing men who fell in the battles foi
Inchon and Seoul are rendered las
honors. The blue (lag of the Uniter
Nations flies above, while the colon
of the U. S. and Republic of Korci
aie carried into this Inchon ceme
tery. (International Soundpltolo',
'The Fireball' Is
Story of Skalini
— —
America's newest and (avoir
sport, the rolloi raceway, cnmi
to the screen foi tin- first tini
in Thoi I ’roduct ions' "The Km
ball, co-starring Mickey Room
and I’,it O'Brien and due foi
local premiei e al the Watts T(ici
tie Thursday and Friday, Filrm
on actual roller skate speedway
"The Fireball i pi cm-ated as a
authentic in vc.y of the opei atioi
and exeifinenl of this iast-movin
ii, w ..port Room v has the ke
roll ol a >idiii^ ui plian who l ist
to lame and fortune through hi
professional ability as king ol th
racing rinks. It is a new kind <
role for one ol America's consil
ient favorites. Pat O’Brien, an
ither ol the screen’s most relia
ile starring figures, plays Fathe
D’Hara, key figure in the earee
md t onseience ol the young chain
idon. x#||(|
In bringing the rolled speed
ivays to the screen, Tlioi s Pro
iueer Bert Friedlob and Directo
lay Garnett have found a natura
-opie ol interest to vary motioi
deture formula. With the eoun
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BOYS ARE THAT WAY
(Canden Chronicle)
I don't remember ever getting
cold or hot when I was a kid.
We slept in an upstairs half
story that I know must have been
torrid or. many a summer night
And the feather bed must have
added to the temperature as we
lay there. Yet I never even paused
when I hit those sheets. Sleep was
almost instant, and I was dead un
til day At dawn my signal to get
j
I
try attending roller racing rink;
in fabulous numbers, ever in
creasing, and watching the spor
avidly on television sets, whethei
the encounters are amateur 01
professional. "The Fireball" ha;
hit on as likely a movie themi
as the year has produced. The
fascination in participating in the
new form of fun on wheels is re
ported as getting full play in “Th<
Fireball."
Along with dts factual treat
tnent of the thrills and spills o
roller skating on the speedways
the screen play by Tay Garnet
and Horace McCoy involves Mick
ey Rooney in a romance with love
ly Beverly Tyler, for whose at
lection he has to vie with hand
some Glenn Corbett. The feature!
Miss Tyler and Corbett are ulst
proficient on wheels. As for Roo
ncy, production requirement!
turned him into something of ai
expert, if not a champion, * oi
skates.
Roller skating, Rooney learnet
in preparing "The Fireball," i:
not necessarily child’s play. Soim
ol the technical fancy embellish
ments that make the game strictl>
adult hire are revealed in tht
film. Look to see in the film peril;
of a "subway," a pile-up of skat
ers, and the technique of "tht
whip, which sends a skater ahetif
with propelled force. There arc
others m store for fans, too.
up was the scraping of gravy from
! the frying pan For I knew that
in a matter of moments then the
food would be on the table. And ’
it took me just no time at all to
bounce out, hop into my overalls
on the move, and take the steps
two at a time as I headed down
to the dining room. And I don't
think I ever thought to wash my
face. They always had to make
me go on the back porch and do
that after I reached the table and
tried to get by without doing it
And the heat of day never
bothered us either, unless they
were trying to make us work. And
even then, we would soon be off
!to the creek, unless they had laid
the raw down to us mighty hard
that day.
Cold didn’t bother us either
I Those brogan shoes with only a
1 loose buckle at the top must have
let in the cold something awful,
just about like a wooden shoe.
But I don’t recall my feet ever
getting cold. And winters appear
i to have been colder then We of
ten walked the branch a part of
the way to school, the ice was so
thick Now that condition seldom
■exists And heating was very poor.
In our long one-room school there
: were cracks in the floor and an
--srs-a-n—r: -r '=r~f
open fireplace in one end; at home
ceilings were high and rooms
were airy, and Ve had no form of
heat in our upstairs sleeping
abode. Yet chidhood memories
carry recollection of discomforts
from neither this nor from the
summer heat.
I guess kids are just that way.
... -o
Jones Is your son mercenary?
Smith: No, can't say he is. He
doesn t seem to love money en
ough to work for it.
"Why do so many women carry
their wealth in their stockings?”
"They bank their money where
it will draw the most interest.”
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