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Bellefonte, Pa., May 10, 1929
PATIENTS TREATED
AT COUNTY HOSPITAL.
Mrs. Charles Kreamer, of Belle-
fonte, who had been a medical pa-
tient in the Centre County hospital
for a few days, was discharged on
Monday of last week.
Mrs. Mary Runkle and infant, wife
and child of attorney William G.
Runkle, of Bellefonte, were discharg-
ed on Tuesday of last week.
Chester Bickel, of Spring township,
a medical patient, was discharged on
Tuesday of last week.
Charles Dean, of Ferguson town-
ship, was admitted on Tuesday of
last week, suffering with shoulder in-
juries received when a wagon on
which he was riding upset as the
team ran away. The bed of the wag-
on struck him across the shoulders
and was dragged over him.
Mrs. Ray Kaufman, of Lewistown,
who was injured in an automobile ac-
cident at Centre Hall two weeks ago,
was discharged on Wednesday of last
week.
Charles Isenburg, who became ill
while drinking an intoxicating con-
coction of his own manufacture, was
discharged on Thursday of last week.
Miss Mary Hepburn, of Bellefonte,
became a medical patient on Wednes-
day night of last week.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Barger, of Moshannon, on
Wednesday of last week. :
Morris Garner, of College township,
was admitted on Thursday of last
week for surgical treatment.
Philip Grenoble, of Ferguson town-
ship, became 2 surgical patient on
Thursday of last week.
Miss Freda Hendershot, of State
College, is a medical patient at the
hospital, having been admitted oD
Thursday of last week.
Daniel Peifer, of Williamsport, a
medical patient for the past week,
was discharged on Friday.
Levina Jean Unger, nine-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Unger, of
Spring street, Bellefonte, was admit-
ted on Saturday evening for an
emergency operation for appendicitis.
Mrs. Charlotte Knisely and infant,
wife and son of Albert Knisely, of
Bellefonte, were discharged on Sat-
urday.
J. Wayne Morrow, sixteen-year-old
son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne G. Mor-
row, of Bellefonte, was admitted on
Saturday for surgical treatment.
A daughter was born to Mr. and
Mrs. Milford Heaton, of Jacksonville,
at the hospital on Sunday.
Mrs. Margaret Swabb, an aged res-
ident of Centre Hall, who was under-.
going medical treatment at the hos-
pital, died on Sunday.
Miss Alice Botsyn, eleven-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Bot-
syn, of Clarence, was admitted or
Sunday for medical treatment.
Mrs. John Wion, of Milesburg, be
came a medical patient on Monday.
Andrew Zelesnick, of Pleasant Gap,
a surgical patient for the past twe
weeks, was discharged on Monday.
Cecil Collingswood, of Bellefonte,
a medical patient for the past ter
days was discharged on Monday.
The hospital contained & total of
thirty-six patients at the beginning
of this week.
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LIFE SENTENCE
FOR GUN TOTER.
Life imprisonment for every person
who carries a concealed weapon is
proposed by Rep. Sol. Bloom (D) of
New York as a method of reducing
‘ yiolent crime throughout the nation.
Not only would Bloom = assess the
beavy penalty against crooks and
gangsters, but he would prohibit po-
licemen and citizens as well from car-
rying revolvers.
Investigation in a half dozen Eu-
ropean countries has disclosed that
the percentage of violent crime var-
jes in exact accord with restrictions
upon the sale and use of small fire-
arms, Bloom said.
“Why ‘should a policeman carry a
revolver?” asked Bloom. “ He in-
vites a shooting duel with a robber
everytime he displays a bulging coat-
pocket.
«policemen are forbidden to carry
guns in Great Britain, excepting Bel-
fast. I visited Scotland Yard and
asked the authorities if they had con-
sidered arming policemen. They
looked at me in surprise, and replied
that they would not think of using
this method of enforcing law. They
have rifles which may be used in case
of riot or in the siege of a criminal,
but even then guns are used rarely.
“Some people like to talk about
the “fighting Irish,” but I have seen
policemen hunting criminals, in Ire-
land armed only with a little club.
«Investigation of conditions in con-
tinental Europe convinced me that
violent crime varies in acordance
with the ease of obtaining guns and
lax laws against the practice.
1f policemen are torpidden to carry
guns and if the crook knows that he
faces life imprisonment for merely
having one in his possession there
will be few policemen killed, is
Bloom's opinion. The policemen may
have to take his chances in a rough
and tumble fight now and then, but
he will have far better chance of
bringing the criminal to justice, he
declared.
«We armed millions of boys during
the war and taught them to shoot,”
said Bloom. “Now we've got to teach
them to forget what they learned.”
He plans to introduce a bill in Con-
gress giving the federal government
complete control of small firearms.
Life-Saving
Work B egins :
the falls of Niagara to their death
each year, something would be
done about it.
Laws would be passed.
Signs would be posted along the
bank reading, “No swimming—no
boating,” so that no bather, however
hardy, would take ‘a chance.
Even in the calm pool ‘way above
the rapids, swimming would be for-
bidden to children who might go
beyond their depth, get caught in an
undercurrent and be swept to their
doom.
Of course, 96,000, persons do not go
over the falls of Niagara each year.
But that number do go to their
death from tuberculosis—a disease
just as certainly preventable as ‘is
drowning in dangerous waters. And
something is being done about it—but
not enough.
Laws have been passed providing
life-saving stations such as health de-
partments, clinics and sanatoria. The
enforcement of legal regulations has
I 96,000 persons were rushing over
Nationwide Campaign
Against Tuberculosis
1 HE heavy economic loss from
tuberculosis can be lessened
by fortifying children against
this insidious disease.”
This statement was: made by Dr.
H. R. M. Landis, president of the
Pennsylvania Tubarculosis Society, in
explaining the campaign for the !
Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis,
which is being conducted during
April throughout Pennsylvania. The
slogan is Early Discovery—Early Re-
eovery.
“Tuberculosis took the lives of
6631 persons in Pennsylvania last
“year,” said Dr. Landis, “notwithstand-
ing the fact that the tuberculosis .
death rate has been considerably re-
duced in Pennsylvania in recent years.
One of the important causes for this
heavy toll, especially in the younger
age group, is that the disease is mot
discovered early.
«Childhood is the starting point for
tuberculosis in many insiances. Many
cases discovered in adults are the re-
sult of infection in childhood. Un-
like many so-called children’s diseases |
tuberculosis is a lasting or chronic
disease. In most cases it develops so
slowly as to be unnoticed by parents.
It usually attacks like a sneak thief.
“An apparently healthy child may
have latent tuberculosis and to play
safe there should be a physical ex-
amination. This is especially impor-
tant for those who have been exposed
to tuberculosis, in which case the ex-
amination should include the 'tuber-
culin test and X-ray photographs.
Special attention is being directed to
children because, although lung gland
infection at an early age is not neces-
sarily a disease, physicians’ records
show that such children are the ones
who are most likely to develop: lung
tuberculosis later.
“The high death rate from tubercu-
losis among girls is one of our most
serious problems. This rate for fe-
males between 15 and 20 years is
almost as high as it was 17 years
ago.
“The importance of this widespread
effort to control tuberculosis is em-
phasized by the heavy cost of the dis-
ease. Aside from the suffering and
the distress borne by victims, their
families and friends, the economic
cost is appalling.
“On the basis of $6000 as the eco-
nomic value of a life to the community
the deaths from tuberculosis in Penn-
sylvania last year meant a loss of
approximately $33,000,000. Another
sum of more than $6,000,000 must be
included to cover the loss of earnings
for a year before death, assuming
only $1000 as the average annual in-
come. Approximately another $30,-
000,000 was paid for the case, directly
or indirectly, for the 60,000 active
cases of tuberculosis during 1928, es-
timating $500 as the minimum cost
for a year.
“The expense of rearing and edu-
cating an individual ig wasted if that
person dies soon after reaching ma-
turity. A recent estimate places the
cost of bringing up a child at a mini-
mum of $7250. On this basis tuber-
culosis cost the people of Pennsyl-
vania more than a $7,000,000 invest-
ment through the deaths of children.
Another million-dollar loss was suf-
fered by the community as its share
in educating these youthful victims of
tuberculosis.”
The campaign in Pennsylvania for
the Early Diagnosis of Tuberculosis,
which-is part of a nation-wide effort,
el In Early Days of Childhood
improved sanitary conditions and de-
creased the hazard to life. Thousands
of public - health nurses co-operate
with physicians to guard venturesome
and indifferent people from coming
too close to the whirling waters of
disease. But this is not enough.
Signs have been posted all along
the bank proclaiming the early dan-
ger signals of tuberculosis: “Too
easily tired,” “Cough that hangs on,”
“Loss of weight,” “Indigestion.” Peo-
ple approaching, the dangerous dis-
trict are warned by tuberculosis as-
sociations and other agencies through-
out the eountry to beware—before it
is too late. But this; too, is not
enough.
There is little hope for those in the
last stages—they are going over the
falls.
Those in the rapids of early tuber-
culosis have a chance, if they can be
discovered and helped to the shore,
there to rest in the fresh air and sun-
nourishing food. Yet it is hard
fo pick them out of the stream.
is under the direction of the Pennsyl-
vania Tuberculosis Society and its af-
filiated organizations. This health ef-
fort is made possible by the sale of
Christmas Seals and Health Bonds.
The tuberculosis societies have the co-
operation and assistance of many
other agencies and organizations.
These include:
State Departments of Health, Public In-
struction and Labor and Industry.
Medical Society of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania Education Association.
Pennsylvania Congress of Parents and
Teachers.
State Federation of Labor.
General Outdoor Advertising Association.
Pennsylvania Council of Churches.
Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association.
State Y. M. CG. A.
Knights of Columbus.
B'nai: Brith.
State Grange.
State Sabbath School Association.
American” Legion.
State Druggists’ Association.
Pennsylvania Motor Federation.
Pennsylvania Railroad.
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Every person is urged to have 8
health examination and play safe.
Tuberculosis Has
Danger Signals
being wise in time,” once said
Theodore Roosevelt.
Prompt action is needed in many
»f the affairs of life, but in no case
so urgently as with a disease like
Every day’s delay de-
“IN Being vise in of wisdom is
tuberculosis.
creases the hope for cure. Anyone is
in danger of tuberculosis who has:
Cough that hangs on;
Too easily tired;
Loss of weight;
Indigestion.
Consult a physician, if you have
any of these symptoms. Get a thor-
ough physical examination with bared
chest. This is the only course that
will provide assurance of safety.
Cough That Hangs On
An ordinary cold usually disappears
in a few days—if one lasts so long as
three weeks, it is suspicious. It may
be a sign of tuberculosis.
Too Easily Tired
“All in” from just a little effort—
ambition dimmed and energy waning
—without any apparent cause. This
is & challenge to one’s common sense.
Loss of Weight
You're going down the scale in more
ways than one when your weight falls
off fairly rapidly, especially if your
zest for life is diminishing at the
same time. Tuberculosis is curable—
taken early enough—by rest, fresh
air, sunshine and good food.
Indigestion
Loss of appetite, usually ealled “in-
digestion,” is frequently a sign of to-
bérculosis, ekpecially’ when combined
with 1088 of weight and energy.
chime while being strengthened by!
work |
Some |
refuse to recognize their danger. They
enjoy the pace that kills.
For the children in the calm pool,
however, life-saving measures are ef-
fective. Better still is it to keep them
out of the pool entirely. Then they
will never get into the rapids and
cannot go over the falls.
The pool may be called “Childhood
Tuberculosis.” In a sense this is a
misnomer, for it is not quite yet tu-
berculosis—rather the condition which
precedes the disease. The glands of
the lung are affected, and only slight,
if any, damage has been done the
lung. This condition, discovered with
the aid of the X-ray and other tests,
tells the expert when a child is
marked for later lung disease. But
not if he is dragged out of the pool
before he floats toward the rapids.
During April emphasis in the fight
against tuberculosis is being laid on
i saving the children in the pool, by
means. of a campaign for early diag-
nosis which is in progress throughout
the country.
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Treatment Too
Long Delayed
According to the latest obtainable
figures, almost half the admissions to
tuberculosis sanatoria are in a far ad
vanced stage of the disease.
In a study of twelve such institu-
tions made by Dr. Linsly R. Williams
and Alice M. Hill, of the National
Tuberculosis Association, the figures
found to be, at the time of en-
were
trance of patient, 12 per cent mini-
mal (or early), 43 moderately ad-
vanced, 45 far advanced.
Hope for restoration to health is
greatest when patients go to the san-
atorium. ini an. early stage, yet less
than one out of eight were found to
io so.-
This means that the vast majority
of persons with tuberculosis do not
know it, do not consult a physician
soon enough and thereby jeopardize
their chances of recovery.
Play safe.
Every one should get a thorough
physical examination at least once &
year, including an X-ray if suspicious
signs are discovered.
Early Diagnosis of
Prime Importance
By DR. CHARLES H. MAYO
S ena there can be no argu-
ment about the importance, yes!
the necessity, of early diagnosis
of tuberculosis. ?
When one has been disheartened se
many times, as I have been, at having
to give to hopefully anxious patients
or their friends the fatal pronounce-
ments “incurable” or “inoperable,”
one comes to realize that there is no
| disease condition: in which early diag-
nosis is not of prime importance if we
would not only delay death but avoid
much sickness, suffering, heartaches
and incapacities; and I can think of
few disease conditions in which early
diagnosis is of so great importance
as it is in tuberculosis.
I understand that most, if not al,
authorities on tuberculosis agree that
in the majority of instances the in-
fection with the tubercle bacillus oc-
curs in childhood, regardless of the
age of the patient when the tubercu-
lous process manifests itself by clini-
cal signs. Therefore, it seems logical
to me that in childhood, as soon as
possible after infection, is the time
when diagnosis is most necessary and
beneficial, even if there is something
to the theories of natural arrest, lat-
ency or slowly developing immunity.
People are not much afraid of a
diagnosis of tuberculosis today as
they were twenty years 8go, largely
because the Christmas Seal Sale and
the educational activities which it has
financed have taught everybody that
cure is not only possible but probable;
and they know that in the majority
of instances early diagnosis simply
' means that they must henceforth live
their lives properly.
Usually the average person thinks
of tuberculosis as consumption or
lung tuberculosis, forgetting that a
large proportion of cases occur in
other parts of the body. True, such
forms are not so commonly fatal, but
on the other hand they are usually
much more incapacitating. These
other forms usually manifest them-
selves in childhood, and more or less
rapidly by destruction of body tissue;
consequently the campaign for early
dlagnosis must necessarily result in
discovering many thofisands of these
bone and gland tuberculosis cases.
Credit?
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Credit is based on faith—on the belief that
promises will be kept.
Hence, the most important thing a business
man can have is character.
The first question asked about him is: “What
is his reputation for honesty, for reliability >”
The lack of these qualities is not long conceal-
ed. One’s neighbors know.
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