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Because the profession as well as the laity has a fuzzy conception of what a chronic disease is, there exist only two special private hospitals for chronic diseases in the U. S.-Montefiore Hospital for Chronic Diseases in New York City and Robert Breck Brigham Hospital in Boston. Last week the recently resigned medical director of Montefiore, Dr. Ernst Philip Boas and his chief assistant published a meaty, precise book on the subject.* Special hospitals exist for insane and tuberculous chronics, but no hospitals, except at New York and Boston, for the vast number of those otherwise affected. The great...
...Boas urges that all.large communities establish special chronic disease hospitals, that states create them in rural districts. Precise-minded, he specifies that such hospitals should have connecting pavilions for the three types of chronics, 1) patients requiring medical care for diagnosis and treatment, 2) patients requiring chiefly skilled nursing care, 3) patients requiring only custodial care. As a patient improves or declines he can be shifted to where he gets specific treatment. As for the smaller details, every three patients should have two wheel chairs at their disposal. Preferably not more than two should occupy a room. They should have...
...CHALLENGE OF CHRONIC DISEASES-Ernst P. Boas & Nicholas Michelson-Macmillan ($2.50). †U. S. almshouses contain 85,000 inmates, three-fourths of whom need constant medical attention, get little...
...answer is that in early cotton spinning days, a peculiarly damp climate with chronic "bad weather" was necessary to make the cotton fibres cling properly together as they were spun into thread. All England is damp, but the atrocious weather typical of Lancashire, is positively ideal?for cotton spinning. Nurtured on this gift of Providence the mills of Lancashire have grown until they now number close to 2,000?for the most part, small, ugly mills employing a few hundred craftsfolk in each...
Today, of course, it is possible to make artificial "cotton spinning weather" anywhere. The thing is done in Germany with conspicuous success. But in Great Britain the early concentration of the cotton industry in Lancashire has only been intensified with time. The evils of stagnation and "oldfashioned methods" are chronic in the region, seem as immutable and familiar to Englishmen as the names of the world famed cotton towns...