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Show ~ Scientists Seek fo Solve Mystery of ‘Community—of—Deaf- Mutes’ MEXICO CITY (UPI duxom midwife in the The ~There was no sound. but the baby's other ear. little/paby was qulte alive, squirming Ther was no reaction Village of Santa Maria Jajalpa,'and kicking, She &lapped—him the infa sleeves rolled up, basin of hot again. Not a cry Water at her side, raised the Then the midwife, who has ..- delivered: bandreds; out ewborn baby She held him by the ankle,infant down on a table Slapped him on the bottom like!clapped ter hands together man, regular doctors do z first : 20 Daily Herald to one ear, . then to the| FRIDAY, APRIL 2, eh Seuee-, es 3 1967 Exhaustive scientific exam from ations have failed to vield hildr a slope said the Made deaf-mutes out of m a e there cause of the ailment that has'bul bbled The residents of the zone are! s, Matlatzinca Indians, proud of £ ping the baby ang ta” 70children during the last affliction, and the frustration of ‘It is considered a drast remedy in roup proud ene pighter, sth vate end Ms party fori at ee ones is ke silent movie watching a cenfuries. They do not accept fertility and contnuity. [ z Aguilar. He is he regional health by the state at Tenango del which is one medical solut : wrapping the baby and three years in Santa Maria And the ailment seems to be people him alongside the moth- Jajalpa, San pread| Three years ago, Some of the more daring |offered.Drastic-like inter-mar re only 10 or 15/women of the area have begunriage of the Matlatzincas with govern t and San, Pedro Techuc Science Fails he baby was also a mute— and part of a medical mystery. three small communities in nildr state of Mexico, about..30 miles, ted. Now Jajalpa to take birth contro! pills. women from other places known as “the communityof fearful of having more deaf and west of Mexico City. the deaf-mutes The community leaders reject. dumb children, villagers report.|these, despite tors whet couske said Doctor Victor inter-marriage with any other ike sterilization of the women six miles away Ever ple type of rec, the spreading search h n made—genealogical, biological, psychological, demographical and audiological, he said. But nothing conclusive has been established. Some of the residents have H tried religion instead of medi- cine. They have had individual prayers and group prayers. } Some have made pilgrimages to ® the Shrine of the Virgin of ~ SAVE DURING OUR SENSATIONAL City Mexico in | Guadalupe | Nothing has changed. Some Born Normal Not all the children afflicated are born deaf and dumb. Some 8 lose their speech and hearing at the age of three or four years. ‘ One ofthe men who makes regular pilgrimages is Pedro : : . farm worker. sturdy —-a—~ —-dyarez; Alcantara He. has three children silent and unhearing, and-four normal children ‘Austreerto | Quintero Molina has 10 children and only one is a deaf mute. Some of the residents think it might be the water or the vegetables. But then, they ask, why are not al] the children 2 affected, only some? The National Institute of Audiology in. Mexico City has made numerous tests and says | that many of the children can ae a be rehabilitated with hearing aids. If the children begin to hear, = ' es they will start talking, experts there say. But’ these are people who live in-poverty: Most-have hardly enough to eat, let alone money for hearing aids. j TRADE UP TO big screen rectangular color! 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