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...should not spit on the floor, etc. Many of the health posters in the U. S. say to see your dentist twice a year, see your doctor, but for people without money this is of no use. Our posters tell what the people can do themselves. For things like TB, we tell the people what the symptoms are and where to go for treatment. The ratio of doctors is admittedly poor. So is our individual output. This is not due to the present government, but to thousands of years of feudalism and one hundred years of Imperialism. Our railway milege...
...before they were old enough to go to school. Today, if a child reaches his first birthday, he will almost surely reach high-school age. Reason : many of the leading child-killers of the past-diarrhea, whooping cough, diphtheria, scarlet fever-have been all but conquered. Pneumonia, heart diseases, TB and cancer still take a heavy toll, but even these killers are being discouraged by medical progress in treatment and early diagnosis...
...kiss these tough babies," he grunts. "They don't respect you for it." But when all the prisoners at "Q" deliberately snubbed unhappy James Watson, a spindly, mouse-eyed confessed murderer of seven wives, Dr. Stanley took pity. He made Bluebeard Jimmy a nurse in the TB ward, found him "a gentle, sympathetic man and a fine helper...
...aliens who serve as U.S. soldiers. He stayed in shattered Manila three more years, spending his back pay from the Government on medical treatment. Finally, in 1949, he got a visa to the U.S. He was shipwrecked off Okinawa; by the time he got to San Francisco, the TB had flared up again...
Relatives in the U.S. helped him gain admittance to the National Jewish Hospital at Denver and this winter, his TB arrested, he arrived in Kansas City. Friends saw to it that special bills for permanent residence were introduced in both the Senate and the House, but Congress did nothing about either. Last week, 60 years old and almost penniless, Hans Lenk was beginning to lose hope at last. Unless Congress acted, he would have to leave the country in less than a month and start all over again the whole slow and painful task of trying to become an American...