Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1921-02-24 | Page 1 | Children Prisoners of Science Will be Given $5000 Home

CHILDREN PRISONERS OF SCIENCE WILL BE GIVEN $5000 HOME O HILAjDELPHIA, Feb. 24. Twelve little boya and girls, held ' virtual prisoners of science at the Philadelphia hospital lor I ciil aMns diseases for periods ranirinp; from sixteen months to six I i years, will be given a home of their own at the institution, to cost $5000, it was announced today. Thp children are suffering from the rare affixation of chronic diphtheria, aud must be kept at the hospital not only to protect the public from contagion, but their ovm safety it is explained : that the disease has settled in their throats, destroying important tissues and muscles provideel bj nature as a part of their breathing breath-ing apparatus, and lhat unless hard rubber tubes are kept in their 1 throats, the children are likely to die of suffocation. The boys and girls are not invalids, however, but romp aud play as Other children. 'I heir ages vary from seven to ten. Cures have been known in such cases, but the process is lory aiul tedious.