Show i r ' “ — PW - THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING DECEMBER r 10-Ye- ar A common cold Everyone know illness Is expensive Often costs a workman several days’ pay plus as much more for physician’s fees and medicine An ankle twisted on a stairway may double that cost An attack of pneumonia can blight the budget of a whole family for a year An automobile accident may run up many thousands ot dollars in expenses for a single victim All of us know these filings but few realize the terrific total to whlih the out of illness may rise And when that Illness is the result neither of accident nor carelessness but on the contrary strikes one whose health has been safeguarded daily 'from birth then the situation appears incredible Illness is the costliest calamity on earth but the super costly clso is that of Frederick B Sntto Jr the man in th iron lung doomed to live at least a decade it is estimated in a metal icspirator without assurance that be ever will emeigc alive! "Fred's caro rune up to $2000 a day roughly” said Frederick B Hnlte Sr the Chicago real estate man who is ths patient's father “but I’m not counting the cost I couldn't put money to a better use" On that basis the attack of infantile paralysis is cost ing the father a dime for every breath of conditioned air the patient breathes of $730 000 a year and the ts treatment of the young man can mount to $7300000! of nuises companies of doctor squads of servants airplanes with bodies reconstructed steamers with a dozen suites brokon through to form one floating home and hos- pital special trains and private cars hospital wings and floors of hotels— these are among the essential luxuries for the life of the super patient And Fred's father docs not hesitate at the prospect — of --unlimited outlay m the future — Thus--fa- r every tm mediate objcclivo in the boy’s battle for life has been at 1937 f i" t© $ Chicagoan Faced With $7500000 Bill B Fred chatted and joked with attendants on the cruise insisting that he would be close to recovery soon He had learned to read by looking at cooks and newspapers which were placed back of hip head" ana reflected in a mirror set be'fore his eyes in the respirator He had to read backward to do it but he persisted and eventually was able to play checkers on a numbered board in the same manner On June 19 of this year the man and the iron lung were lowered ashore by deck hand and etovedores In surgeons’ uniforms and masks while police held back the crowds A big truck equipped with a generator carried the smiling ' patient hnd hts prison to a private car which had virtually been rebuilt and equipped especially for the distinguished passenger In Chicago a reinforced truck sheathed In sterilized surgical cloth and manned by a crew swathed and masked in white carried Frpd and the lung to Billings Memorial hospital to a special Suite He had spent 20 day coming home— and his father had spent cloie to $600001 After four months In the hospital the man in the Iron lung with 22 attendants was transported to Miami Beach From the car he in a club car converted Into a hospital was taken to the root of a palatial villa where a four-roosuite had been laid out and Rosemary Qarrell his fiancee was his first visitor And the $2000 a day cost continued Two thousand dollars for every 24 hours of life Ten cents for every breath of the Iron lung The Snite fortune must be constantly replenished by the father's business ability to stand such a financial strain But the new respirator developed at Mr Snite's expense will help all sufferers free eep 'i A ‘ -- f i (J 1 r - 1 M'i-y V 1 h Wf J O V ji m y 3 4 v V''' LATEST TYPE OF "IRON LUNG Developed for Frederick Snite Jr by Denis Scanlon Swedish Inventor who per- fected the older bulkier and more expensive respirator It will now be available to other sufferers SPARING NO EXPENSE Though his son’s illness costs $2000 a day Frederick B Snite Sr (above) says "I’m not counting the cost” Regt-men- -- vf V - t '4 i r 'ii r 1 xa & operations At Shanghai the father sought to charter the CJiina Clipper for the run to San Francisco but the bulk afid weight 'of the iron lung made the plan too hazardouscellOr-to dering a new respirator and deeding the original the Peiping hospital Father Snite engaged 12 suites on the liner President Coolidge and transferred the patient with doctors electricians and other aids including seven i $ n t Though Frederick B Suite Jr once an athlete knows ha may have to spend another 10 years In an “Iron cell" and may never recover he jokes with his mines and father about hia Imprisonment keeps up his Interest In world new and sporta and plajs cheaa by calling movea tained The odda are stul against him but the father’s will to spend Is matched by the young man’s will to live — and by the will to wait of Miss Rosemary O'FarrcIl whom he was to wed this autumn! Chtldren have regained health after long periods in respirators but young Snite's ago lengthens odds against him Half around the world 12000 miles from home In China on a world cruise with his family in March 1938 Fred was stricken by the lethal plaguo as mysteriously ns wes President Roosevelt years before He was hurried to Union medical college in Peiping and the ablest experts From Asia Europe and America they were summoned came Emergency efforts proved useless Paralysis spread from neck to feet and death stared through the hosoitul window?1 By a modern miracle which money may work an orthopedic respirator was obtained and the patient was Incased in it Since then he has been the tenant of four of these Iron lungs as Improved models have been devised for him Ten nurses four doctors two electricians to operate the lung two dieticians and minor assistants swelled the staff In attendance to 30 After H months Fred was able to read to eat liquid food to talk In a tow voice at intervals and never did hu cheery spirit flag The Iron lung was longer than six feet higher than five feet wider than four fcfct andwclghed 1100 pounds The device resembled slightly the barrel of a locomotive with valves and levers and dials spread over the shell and the boy rested lengthwise In it With head protruding rstlng tmariUihiuireTt vhelf lied fabric swathed the patient's neck to provent air entering the lung from there Conditioned air was pumped into the respirator 15 times a minute through tubes joined to an electrical generator and other tubus guared to a suction pump "exhaled” the lung For the patient’s nerves were so stricken that ho could not breathe naturally— the nerves would not telegraph the Impulse to the muscle and the muscles would not expand and contract the iciest After 14 moitths and the expenditure of over $100000 the doctors said Fred might be moved from Peiping The patient's "father chartered a special train equipped a baggage car with a generator and rode with bis son to Shanghai accompanied by 20 persons In atfendancp The electrical apparatus failed abruptly for several minutes but Just as life wa's leaving the boy the machine resumed mr 4 Vs v K' ' v (jive Jlcb You’ll always be glad you gave a General Electric 1 CEE) Jm&ucal Qittcti xuid See IvuffUeAt Rejf'uf&uUob —a General Electric! super-freeze- The canniest of Highland Scots couldn’t think of t finer Christmas present than G-Triple Thrift Refrigerator “’Tie a bonnie gift” says "Sandy” Claus "Ye please the wee lady for long years to come’ And ye savt tbrtt ways Ye save on price Ye save on current Ye save on upkeep!” G-- E Full-wldt- n E NOW ON DISPLAY DffMlNT AT ILICTRICAi piAlERS stores — Automatic THRIFT UNIT Sealed in -- steel — ANDjurrr : :w i With Oil Cooling X Every Genera Electric Refrigerator hat the famous hermetically Monitor mechanism that holds all records for enduring economy Oil cooling developed by the General Electric "House of Magic” assures faster freezing less current cost quieter operation and longer life' sealed-in-ste- cl rdftfjjej- P - rtf 5 ?' ) fair Chinese nurses The cost of the trip from Shanghai to Ban Francisco was more than $30000 the elder Snite And repeated that ht was not counting the dollars con-Md- ed t the beautiful brilliantly styled models Big roomy cabinets have every advanced feature for greater convenience New quick releasing ice cube trays Stainr less steel sliding shelves Interior light Thermometer Deep dish vegetable pan Matched food container! r |