Hospital Construction Solving Health Problem Encouraging the construction of hospitals is one way in which North Carolina is solving the iieal th problem which has become so acute in recent years, accord ing to an editorial !n the Greens boro News, which reads as follows: ' That there is a genuine health or medical problem in this coun try is obvious. It is not the prob lem of tiie rich who can stand high doctors' fees and hospital expenses, nor is it the problem of the poor who are provided for by char.ty. Hut it is a problem for any house holuer in the middle income class who has been confronted by the necessity ? of paying for a serious and prolonged illness ip his fam ily. "This problem will not be solved by cries of 'socialized medicine' against any proposal to deal with it. Nor do we think that it will be solved by planners in Washington w ho put so much stress on com-1 pulsory health insurance. "The root of the problem, it seems to us, is a shortage of doc tors and hospital facilities. Heavy increases in health and accident in surance without a corresponding increase in doctors and facilities would be calculated to aggravate instead of ameliorate the prob lem.' "The law of supply and demand still has some standing. If there were enough doctors, it stands to reason that competition would low er costs and there would be more Physicians in rural areas. : I "Is there actually a shortage of doctors? The following excerpt from an editorial in the $t. Louis Post-Dispatch may throw some light on that question: " 'In supporting Dean Leland, Dean William Guthrie of Ohio State said that fewer doctors were graduated last year thap in 1905' although the population of the' United States has nearly doubled.1 In saying this, Deaa Guthrie stress ed a point made many times on tbis page. There were 160 medical j schools in this country in 1995. By 1915, the number was down to 96. By 1935, it was down to 77. Only one or two new schools have been opened in the postwar years. " 'For about three decades, the number of medical students has been held down to a little more than 20.000: the number of gradu ates to about 5.000 a year. Even though some of the turn-of-the century schools deserved to be closed because of their low stand ards, it is all too clear that the. supply of doctors has been kept more below the demand. " 'This is the first point to which medical reformers should give their attention. Broader opportunities for medical training are a pre requisite for any sensible national health program.' "North Carolina is going about solving the problem in the right way when it encourages the con struction of hospitals and the raining of doctors. This will take ime, but we are on the right ?oad." Babies Are Individuals, Have Inborn Abilities By JANE EADS < WASHINGTON ? "A baby sets his own pace ... He doesn't follow ] any timetable in a book. . . For- i get about comparing him with other < babies. Remember, this baby of I yours is an individual." ! i That's what "Infant Care," the i government booklet which has serv- < ed as a guide to mothers since | 1914. says today. Modern advice i is offered after consultations with i psychiatrists, psychologists, anthro- ! i pologists and parent-education workers as well as doctors, nurses and nutritionists.? The emotional development of the child comes in for a large share of attention now,1 and stress is on removing the ? things which make children behave' in an undesirable way rather than i >n the bahavior itself. The gradual relaxation of certain practices advised earlier on sleep, feeding, crying and toilet training show the results of the experts' in luence. The experts insist too that .he length of time it takes a nor mal baby to learn to lift his chin, smile. lift his head, reach for and ?rasp an object, laugh out loud, roll over, sit up. walk without help, stand alone and begin to talk is not overly important. Some bab ies do these things earlier, some later than other youngsters. "Parents cannot 'make' a child develop any faster than he will naturally," the booklet says. "But they can give him surroundings and care that allow him great free dom for using his abilities." Although some of the things recommended in earlier editions of "Infant Care" fall into today's raised-eyebrow department, other advice given nearly 40 years ago Is as sound as when written: "All babies need mothering and should have plenty of it," the 1914 book said. "Harsh punishment has no place in the proper upbringing of the baby. Learning to feed a baby, bathe him and change his diaper doesn't take years of study by experts. It's his needs as a person that take some doing: These ore tied up with the way we bathe, feed and dress him. The loving he gets is just as important as his physical care." His home, the booklet says, is the place where a child is learning from the day he is born, what people are like, and "how those about him act begins to color his actions and feelings. He learrfc feelings of friendliness and confi dence from his parents." 1/foAH NuMSKUtL | Tr^?x ' ( NICE SNoT, S s pop/ j Wmw;J) \ l_J>. im liLJ MOAH ?? JF VOU VNECE WILLIAM TBLL'S SON,WOULDVOU MAviE _ AN Aggpw ESCAPE r Au GEBuser AUSMTDWl , RA , T^RAR NOAH =- IS A ^TPAPPER'S CHAIN STRONS&ST WHEN IT IS FULL OF LNNX. ? Bussfiss BUNN _ ^^c, /^.C> t Congratulations Haywood County Your new Hospital is no longer a dream ? it stands fo day a sign of progress ? a symbol of humanitarian service to all The Haywood County Hospital is a reality because the people unselfishly gave something of themselves to bring it into existence ? their time, effort, talent and skill. They gave their most precious gifts of which they can be pardon able proud. General Electric too is proud to furnish X-Ray equip ment for your new Hospital. It gives us great pleasure to serve hundreds of progressive medical institutions the world over, demanding the finest in X-Ray equipment. DISTRICT X-RAY OFFICE ' DEPARTMENT GENERAL ELECTRIC \ 1140 Elizabeth Street Charlotte, N. C. - < _ ? "i * ? ' -* / * Picture Of Construction During Early Fall Of 1951 Tfjis picture was made in the early fall and shows the progress of the construction of the new wing. The old unit is in the background. (Mountaineer Photo). Woman Doctor, In Regular Army, Wants Overseas Job By JANE EADS WASHINGTON?First Lt. Fae M. i Adams, first woman physician com- ] missioned in the U. S. Regular ( Army, comes by her pioneering 1 naturally. The slight brunet. who completed her medical studies under the GI Bill after serving in World War II as an enlisted I WAC and later as a commissioned physical therapist, is the great granddaughter of John Adams, bold I sht'tiff of Santa Clara county in I California's frontier days. As one of the Army's 20 reserve I women medipboiljeers jiow on ac tive duty around the Svorld. Lt.' Adams has been stationed at Camp Crowder, Mo., since July 1952. When she reports to Walter Reed Army hospital here in July, she will be the first woman to receive residency-training at an Army hos pital. "Excited, pleased and honored" at the assignment, she said when she came to Washington to be sworn in that she had held back from applying because no other women were yet in the field. Now that she's broken the "brass," she thinks her sister physicians will follow suit. The daughter of Earl S. Adams of Morgan Hill. Calif., Lt. Adams had finished her pre-medical course at the University of California and was serving as Camp Counselor at Lake Tahoe, Nev., in the summer Df 1943, when she joined the WAC. In 1944 she trained at Lawson Cieneral Hospital, Atlanta, Ga., for !ier commission as a physical thera pist. She served as Second Lieu tenant in the Pacific area 14 months before her discharge in 1947. Then she entered the Women's National College of Pennsylvania under the GI Bill and was graduated in June, 1951. At the Camp Crowder reception center she has assisted with the medical exams given boys about to be separated from the service. ''When a GI gets sick," she's found, "he welcomes a woman doctor as i readily as any otjier. They're the best patients in the world." Though she says she's "not much of a talker," Lt. Adams, with a glint of michief in her eyes and dimples showing when she smiles, expressed herself, very definitely about her likes. She's longing for overseas duty J one day and wants to see Paris. ' When she was a little girl she had a ; fondness for rocks and stones and ; collected so many she almost crowd- ' ed her family out of the house. For off-duty wear, she likes Cali- t fornia casuals, "not too severe, not too frivolous." Of French ancestry, j she likes to cook?and can. Her t newest love is golf. One of the < first things she did here was to i look around for a golf course near Walter Reed. Hormone ACTH IsSto3 Leukemia In Its Tracks! Acute leukemia, the fatal blood cancer, is being s*opped in its tracks by the wonder hormone. ACTH, three cancer experts rp ; port. Five patients treated with the 1 hormone all have ipade dramatic recoveries, Drs. O. H. Pearson, L. E. Eliel and T. R. Talbot. Jr.. of the Sloan-Kettering Institute and Memorial hospital in New York report. One child had a relapse three weeks later but again was brought back to health with ACTH. The others, two children and two adults, ?till were well one day to five weeks after getting the hormone. They had almost no signs of the disease. Th^y had received daily Injections for 24 to 3D days. Whether they will have relaps es isn't yet known. Dr. Pearson said. He said these recoveries still must be called temporary and in complete. Other treatments bring tempo rary recoveries in leukemia. But the best of these has been only about 30 per cent effective in chil dren. ACTH thus appears to be the best drug yet found to help these patients. " Leukemia is a cancer of the blood, with the body making too many white blood cells. Acute, or fast acting attacks, usually kill in a few weeks or months, or in a year. ( Chronic leukemia, which people i may have for years, also is halted i temporarily by ACTH. It comes | back later, but then the hormone i can bring recoveries a second time, s Tbis effect in chronic leukemia was I reported a jew _ L The new SJTJ. mia were describe Ae*e?y *2 meeting devoted t, !p5 Lsone. ACTH U ,"12 the pttuttary gUa<1 ^ U made by lht Another patient auk kemia recovered ^ tisone. Dr. Pe4rsa? rCTH ThrwS? ACTH or cortiaone^ cases they were alreS, with leukemia, thtyjS So far, ACTH hunt effect against other fJ cer, including cancer d, testes, and adrenal gu^ kemia. it destroyed The studies are gouu tempts to learn just he. '"ones produce these ea and how to better the tt, Only small amounts t ?nones are being nud, bile and from hog pitui^ there is goes to media research on arthritis, | rheumatic fever and otha Buckeye State? Officially COLUMBUS, 0. spite some snide remart Fun, about its odor the tree is to become the ofl| tree for Ohio. Ohio long known as the buckeye i it never has been off. state legislature, 150 ye .he state was founded, got around to making , Jesignation. . The measure provided I slative fun as it passed ite. Although he voted f? sen. Arthur Blake, a fin nented that the buckeji 'scrubby,'" that it "stii hat its fruit poisons cat Sen. I. E. Baker, cfaa or passage, agreed la lie committee approvia| 'Even as bad as it stukt t." Use the Want Ads 1* TIIK HAYWOOI) COUNTY HOSPITAL A Wonderful Institution! ? Be Sure To Attend Open House Of The Hospital ??????????? , x j .. . . I ... ? : We Furnish Many of The Sup _ plies and Equipment Used In This Fine Hospital ' i, I i l WACHTEL'S INCORPORATED ' . . . :?? ? ? ? '? - : " '? ' i ASHEVILLE, N.C. ,1 Hospital Physician and Sick-Room Supplies

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