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Show 10 .Sunday, August 8, 1948 SUNDAY HERALD Million Half-Sick Veterans Indicated by Tropical Clinic they were stricken. These "tropical "trop-ical Johnnier' did magnificent She's Walking: for the First Time WINSTON-SALEM,v N. C. The startling assertion that, one million of our veterans" are suffering suf-fering from amebic dysentery Is made by the Journal and Sentinel, Sen-tinel, as i a result of findings gleaned from a small tropical disease clinic set up In Winston-Salem Winston-Salem last year and operated by one of the top medical experts oh tropical diseases in the world. The assertion has also been made that up to 15,000,000. of the American . public may have the , same diseai mostly arrested, of course, but stills representing a huge , medical problem about which almost , nothing is being done. . . . The newspaper has called attention at-tention to the appalling fact that these former service men (and at least one but of ten of the rest of us) do not stand even a gambler's chance of obtaining a correct diagnosis and proper treatment. ; "Our doctors, untrained in tropical medicine, are failing to diagnose amebic dysentery in nine cases out of ten," says -the newspaper's staff writer who made the Investigation. "Our medical schools, apparently un- aware that amebic dysentery and one or two other tropical-type diseases constitute a national health-problem, are not training their graduates to meet this challenge. As a result the veterans veter-ans administration the agency responsible for treating service- connected sickness has .been hamstrung by the lack of available avail-able medical 'know-how." The tropical diseases have been , a problem in the United States for generations. Malaria, amebic and bacillary dysentery and the hookworm still an endemic in 'large sections of. the south. And .there have been years when the plague, cholera, typhus and yel-f yel-f low fever blasted through this country in flaming epidemics. .Even iuch exotics as the yaws, leprosy and f ilariasis were something some-thing more than medical curi osities 60 years ago. But good plumbing, sound ' methods of treating drinking 'water and a generous share of that unknown factor best described de-scribed as luck permitted us either to ' bring these diseases under control or to drive them back into the hot and humid countries whence they came. By 1940 there were no more than ; 25 doctors in the United States who were specially trained train-ed to deal with the diseases of the tropics. In 1940 only the medical med-ical school of Tulane university offered a graduate curriculum in tropical medicine. By quick and skillful use of the few' qualified men available the army and navy fashioned a medical program which enabled an estimated 8,000,000 men to fight World War II in areas which were murderous because of disease. Some 1500 doctors and technicians techni-cians were schooled in tropical medicine during the frantic early months of the war and then sent overseas to guard the troops from infection and to treat them once job. SU11. in World War II disease was far more dangerous than tthe shooting enemy. Malaria alone hospitalized ten ' men for every one man killed or wounded in action."'-. . " ( The army ' medical records themselves are misleading since they record only the, hospital cases. Statistically their errors are on the conservative side. According to these inadequate records, the top 10 tropical-type diseases for the period 1942-45 were: Dysentery and diarrhea (the soldier's occupational diseases) 756,849 cases. Malaria (many types; some mild, some deadly) 572,950 cases. Infectious hepatitis (a vague classification referring to infla-mation infla-mation of the liver; frequently caused by a sewage-borne virus but can result from factors. as diverse as amebic dysentery and acute alcoholism) 191,574 cases. Dengue 1 (an acute, relatively common though rarely fatal mosquito-borne disease) 121,608 cases. Hookworm (Old World type) 19,943 cases. - Filarjasis (a chronic, mosquito-borne mosquito-borne disease which, in aggravated aggravat-ed cases, produces grotesque swellings aptly described as elephantiasis) ele-phantiasis) 13,009 cases. Sandfly fever (a fly-spread fever resembling influenza) 12,634 cases.: Srub typhus ( a typhus fever spread by mites not unlike our chiggers) 7,421 cases. Amebic dysentery (more about this later) 4,504 cases. ' Schistosomiasis (a parasitic infection in-fection carried by fresh water snails, a common disease in Puerto Rico) 1,672 cases. "1 ',"' M " " ' 1 W ... i Ox. . .1 -.'- ) -v. v n mm J i t Edgemont By MRS. TANA RICHARDS Bishop and Mrs. Orvil B. Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Hull left Friday afternoon for a trip to California. They will visit with the parents of Mrs. Hull in Los Angeles and visit points of interest in-terest in Southern California. Last week-end Mr. and Mrs. George Boyce and Mr. and Mrs. Richard Grimmett went on a little excursion to Lagoon, stay ing overnight in Salt Lake. Mrs. Ida Stubbs was hostess to her bridge club Friday afternoon. Luncheon -was served first, followed fol-lowed by an afternoon of bridge. Mrs. Eleanor Lovell, a guest, won high score; Katharine Boyce winning second high. Those in at tendance were: (besides those mentioned) Beth Ferguson, Hat-tie Hat-tie Slaton, Marion Stubbs, Eva Farley and Billie Stubbs. Mr. and Mrs. Royal Hunter took their children to the zoo in Salt Lake. Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Wood-ard Wood-ard are vacationing with another Side Glances i - ?Tv'- M J Swallows Balloon; Doctors Baffled CINCINNATI, O., Aug. 7 ' (U.R) Doctors admitted today to-day that a severe swelling that developed in the chest of little Richard Hunter after he swallowed a bolloon has them stumped. : . Doctors first believed the .2 -year-old boy might be pushing air into the . balloon as he breathed, but said a preliminary examination in-' dicated the balloon iad noth-, noth-, ing to do with the swelling. He was held under observation. observa-tion. . Richard swallowed the balloon bal-loon Thursday night. He was taken to the hospital yesterday yester-day when the swelling in his chest developed. GIRL RUN OVER, KILLED BY CAR COEUR D'ALENE, Ida., Aug. 7 (U.R) A 4-year-old Montana gir? was - fatally injured in Coeur d'Alene,. Ida., last night when sh ran into the rear wheel of a pas sing truck while scampering aftei a ball. In Navy Post ; i '.-J V ; Original Wright Brothers Plane Goes to Museum DAYTON. Aug. 7 (U.F?)--Ei- . ecutors of the estate of the lata Orville ; Wright' today asked probate pro-bate court for permisson to sell the "Kitty Hawk," original air plane of the Wright brothers, f the United States national museum mu-seum in Washington f0r $1. The $1 value was placed on the plane in the Inventory and ap nraisal of Orville Wright's estataV by the executors, Harold S. Miller and Harold W. Steeper. , SANBORN PANNED BY ' DEMOCRATIC ASPIRANT ' ' RUPERT, Ida., Aug. 7 (U.R) Bert Minwegen, Montpelier high school teacher and aspirant for the Democratic nomination . as Second district congressman, last night accused Rep. John Sariborn (R., Ida.), of yielding to vested g interests during his term In con- jress.. ' !i' ; , Minwegan told a meeting of Democratic leaders here that San- This picture records the biggest thrill in the life of 8-year-old Patricia. JaneUo, of Christopher, 111. She's walking for the .first time. Born-with spastic knees, she was a .hopeless cripple until five months ago. when operations were performed at Chicago's Illinois Research Hospital. Her happiness happi-ness is mirrored in her face as she, walks toward her father. August.- Nurse Shirley Stevenson and .. . her mother encourage her. . Retail Butchers Squeeze; Start By UNITED PRESS , Retail butchers began 'locking their doors in some- sections of the country today because they could no longer stand the squeeze of high wholesale costs and mounting consumer resistance. The Meat Dealers association of Southern California announced announc-ed that 25 Los Angeles butchers planned' to close down indefinitely indefin-itely until: (1) Wholesale meat prices come, down; . andor (2) customers buy more meat. George Dressier, executive secretary sec-retary of the National Association Associa-tion of Retail Meat Dealers, said he expected that "quite a few" butcher shops across the' nation would be forced to close. He said that meat retailers are cow. im sv n gf nvtcc. we. t. m. mc. u. t. it. orr a -7 couple, friends of theirson the Yellowstone river. Mrs. Clifford Stubbs has had as her guests some of her folks from the southern part of the state. Her brother, Lewis Reed Beck stayed with her two weeks prior to his joining the' army. He is now employed at the air base in Salt Lake. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph I. Beck from Spring City, have just returned home, after a brief visit at the Stubbs' home. And Mrs. Stubbs brother-in-law, Harold Arnold-son Arnold-son of Moroni, has been here on a business trip, staying at the Stubbs' home. Mrs. Connie Tucker gave a party at her house for the Primary Prim-ary children of her class who at tended summer Primary, and who took part in the Primary festival. Bounteous refreshments were served, and games were played. Eighteen little Zion boys and girls were in attendance. The Maryland yellowthroat sometimes builds its nest in the hroat of the skunk cabbage. Can't Stand Locking Doors in - "a precarious position" and have been -for months. "It's impossible to make money," he said. "Those dealers without a backlog will be in a bad -way and many of them will be forced to close. It's impossible! to tell how many casualties there will be, but no epidemic is expected." ex-pected." . There were some signs today that prices might drop lightly in the next few days. But consumer resistance in the form of organized organ-ized price strikes was being intensified. in-tensified. Three new Texas cities Tex-arkana, Tex-arkana, Wichita Falls and Nacogdoches Na-cogdoches joined the 14 other towns in that state where women have launched campaigns to stop .buying meat during next week. ; At Austin, Tex., Mrs. Lila J. Markham sairf the ronnpratirtn t . . 1 i . 1 ' wiin me price smite sne nas organized or-ganized is "so good that the campaign cam-paign may run for a month instead in-stead of a week. The Southern California Meat Dealers association said it expected ex-pected the shutdown movement to spread among smaller butcher shops because "in trying to hold their trade some, dealers have cut their profit so sharply they just can't holdout." But that didn't deter women from their crusade to force prices down along the West Coast. Los Angeies women were readying a price strike- for the two-week period beginning Aug. 16. Neighborhood Neigh-borhood groups were calling all subscribers in their telephone books and reported volunteers' were signing up like mad." Mrs. Virginia Lutz has set up a telephone drive in Long Beach,; "Only one woman we called' wouldn't cooperate," Mrs. Lutz said. "We think she's a butcher's wife." Although aluminum was then considered a precious metal and selling for $545 an ounce. Napoleon Napo-leon III of France (1808-1873) wore a concealed breastplace of the light-weight metal to . foil would-be assassins. Rear Adm. JoRn Wiik. iorn had been "led like a sheep The girl was Joanne Kack of, is the new commander nf ij.r to the slaughter to place Idaho s (jonraa, jvioni., wno was vismng her grandparents d'Alene. In Coeur Mn a lifetime of 70 years, the human heart pumps about 40,- 000,000 gallons of blood Naval Forces in Germany. He will also serve s naval adviser to the Military Government. Admiral Wilkes succeeds Rear Adm. Roscoe E. Schuirmann, transferred to Washington. vote on the side of vested inter ests instead of supporting tha common good." 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