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...know every resident is supposed to take some responsibility as part of the contract in public housing, but it doesn't work out. There's a lot of work that's unattractive." Dr. Eva J. Salber, the Director of the Martha May Eliot Family Health Center in Bromley-Heath, one of Boston's housing projects, stopped to dig out an article on the Center. A coworker took up the conversation. "Yes, there's rubbish in the halls, and it's not uncommon to find vomit on the steps or urine in the elevators...
When Dr. Martha Eliot was named to this Professorship in 1957, she saw that one of the centers could serve as a demonstration unit for the testing of new public health concepts. She picked out the Bromley-Heath Clinic because of its proximity to the Harvard Medical School. After her death, a grant from the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1966 led to the expansion of the center's activities from weekly sessions for treatment of children to care of children and mothers five days a week...
...Martha Eliot Health Center serves an area of four and a half census districts--that is, about 17,000 people in Jamaica Plain and a small part of Roxbury. Because restricted funding has limited care to mothers and children under 21, only approximately 8000 residents are potential patients. The Bromley-Heath housing project, where the center is located, is nearly all Negro, with a smattering of Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The dilapidated homes around the project belong to Negroes, Cubans, Puerto Ricans, Greeks, and some old Boston Irish-Catholics. Many of these old Irish families are unwilling to come...
...such misfortune hampered him at the Eastern Veterans Championships of March 9, 10, at Bromley, Vermont...
Eliot's Andy Grainger recorded the only TKO in the House competition as he captured the 135 pound title from Quincy's Doug Bromley...