Evening Star Newspaper, December 9, 1926, Page 36

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1926. . MANY “HOPELESS™ MINDS FIND NEW LIFE AT ST. ELIZABETH'S Mentality of Veterans and Miny Others Once Believed Permanently Lost Reqtored at Institution. : Rl HOSPITAL EEKING FUNDOF 525000 St. Elizabeth’s Wants Sum to 5 Cover Three-Year Build) ing Program. mentally. Laboratory tests of the blood and spinal fluid show still better results, which cannot be observed until after two years. Marked im- provement is found in about 85 per cent of the cases. 1 Able to Resume Life. “There is no inclination at St. Eliza- beth’'s to assert that the proofs of cure are conclusive, and such would not be the case until the patient had skown no tendency to revert to his original condition over a period of about 10 years. But men are being discharged presumably normal, able to go out in the world and earn their owp livings. Six years ago the gates of ‘St. Elizabeth's would have been the gates of death for these men. The speed of the recovery depends on the stage of progress reached by the disease. The inoculation, it is believed, stops the disease itself, then and there. But if it has gone on for any length of time it has produced serious brain lesions, which must be healed and the damaged material re- stored by nature. This may require a long time. If the disease i8 in late stages the patient may never be per- fectly normal again—but he has a normal lifetime to work toward that end. The most pitiful aspect of paresis at St. Elizabeth’s has been that so many of the victims are young men whose condition is partially due to their life during the war. that sometimes the greatly im- cured—upon Patients, many of them former serv-| hospital cases, ice men, who within the past three or | Paresis victim seemed four years have been sent tq St.|Proved—posibly even % covery from some disease produc- Elizabeth’'s Hospital to die of a pre-|ing high fever, such as typhoid fever sumably incurable brain malady now or “lz;\eumonla. Hm‘t upon the fever g \_the | it86lf as the probable explanation— gradually being dischiyged—the |}, " gojinerately to give a man typhoid progress of the disease arrested and litever or pneumonia and then take a m probably cured. chance on bringing him out of it ving results during the past| cording to the annual report would be little short of murder. . e " oti 3 It was necessary to find some fever the present vear for construction o€ 2| of Dr. William A. White, superintend- | which ran high, but at the same time e e enf of St. Elizabeth's, to Secretary | could be absolutely controlled and hich s & prossing 1o, or an appro-| WOrk: lead to the hope that in the atopped whenever the physician priation of $2.500,000, and during the | D&T !llnure n‘ will be gosu‘mla t-; ‘;::2 wanted to stop it. Benign tertain # H > s, general paresis, or softening o B i to replace tem-| }oain que to a specific germ, curable. tory guarters Formerly it has resulted inevitably B White in death within about three years. 42 e There was practically nothing phy- sicians could do even to slow up the A three-year building program at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, to cost 85,250,000, is trged by Dr. William A. White, superintendent, in his annual Teport, submitted today to Secretary ©of the Interior Work. Dr. White asks for $750,000 during malaria was ideal for this purpos Sometimes at St. Elizabeth's the pa- tients with weak hearts show signs of collapse under the severity of the chills and fever. But there is pothing to worry about. As soon as the phy- the present time is overcrowded, hav- Dpebp i » ing approximate 500 more patients e vl Sk o progress of the disease. sician, who is watching them closely, :hfln bed capacity, It "‘}; Pl“"‘“’_"““]“" During the past four y sees any danger this he sSmpfy ENTERI'RJSE SERIAL m ng necessary to give the best results| paye peen treated at St. 's, | stops the fever and waits for another ] to the patients were allowed between | j wag explained, by hospital phy-|day. BUILDING ASSOCIATION g - each bed. On June 30, 1905, the num-| gijung, by innoculation with the para- Elizabeth's started using the . w e dl'e her of patients was 2,551. On June 30, | gjte of benign tertlan malaria, a sick- | malaria inoculations in December, 7th St. & La. Ave. N.W. 5 patients, an in- 1926, there were 4, 4. The semi- crease in 21 vears of 1, permanent buildings_built in 1918 house approximately 500 of these pa- tients, They require a large amount of repairs and are becoming very costly to keep in use. These buildings, being bullt of lathe covered with stucgo, are always more or less of & fire Lazard. Arrangements stould be made to replace them with permanent buildings. In considering the building program the future of the institution ken into consideration. pital has been growing for the past rears at_the rate of 100 patients every year. Unless some rad- feal change should take place in re- gard to admissions or removal of patients by the Veterans' Bureau or other sources, the same growth may be expected in the near future. If this is so, and if the building program should take approximately five years, preparations should be made for 500 additional patients. Thus we have 500 overcrowding at the present time, 500 more in temporary buildings that must De replaced, and 500 ‘covering a future growth, or a new construction for 1,500 patients. From the foregoing it will be seen that the hospital considers 1t wise to provide 1,500 additional beds t take care of its present anr imme- diate needs. To build buildings con- taining 1,500 beds and the necess: utilities, including additional bole steam lines, sewers, electrical conn tions, kitchens and dining rooms, we believe it will require from $4,500,000 0 $5,000.000. “The full amount should be author- tzed and appropriations made for $750,000 the present vear, $2,500,000 during the second year and about $2,000,000 during the third year.” FREEDMEN’S HOSPITAL CARES FOR 4,227 IN YEAR Many Charity Cases Taken in by Local Institution, Annual Report Reveals. A total of patients were ad- mitted to F) lospital during the past fiscal yes ccording to the annual report of W. A. Warfield, chief surgeon. Of thesé 970 were pay patients brought a total revenue of $23.53; Of those admitted free of ch were residents of the District and 1,659 came from the States. ng the year 3,861 patients were discharged. Of these 2318 had en- tirely recovered, 1,301 were improved, 242 unimproved. ~Deaths amounted to 348.° The surgeons performed 2,030 opera- tions with mortality of 3 per cent. The total mortality at the hospital was 7 per cent. The physical equipment of the hos- pital, Dr. Warfield reports, is in very good shape with the exception of the laundry machinery, which during the year must be almiost entirely replaced at an estimated cost of $27,182. — e and re giving way in popular- eston slippers as gifts for . 8 pretty Mazda tree light sets, complete with 51:_9_-5_ long silk cord. Special for...... Diamong Flash Button flashes lights off and om, Santa Claus For the Ohristmas tree, or £ MUDDIMAN ;. ‘wondertul novelty, 709 13th, Main 149 ness confined to the tropics and quite different in its effects than the com- mon swamp malaria of the eastern United States. * Germs Killed by Fever. This malaria produces chills followed by exceptionally high fever, running as high as 107 degrees, while the Amer- ican malaria seldom produces fever running higher than 1061 degrees. This high fever comes at intervals, one attack every other day, Its severity is the crux of the cure. It acts as if it sterlized the blood of the paresis germs as instruments are sometimes sterlized by plunging them several times in moderately hot water. Those left alive after the first fever spell develops until the second, when a good percentage of them are killed. A smaller crop is left for the third, a still smaller for the fourth, and so on. The patient is left to undergo 16 attacks of the fever, usually coming in the course of 32 days. Then, and this is the beauty of the treitment say the St. Elizabeth's doctors, the malaria can be cured at once in every case with practically absolute certainty by giving the patient quinine. There is nothing doubtful about the cure for benign tertain malaria as there might be in the case of swamp malaria. Devised by German. The treatment was first devised by Prof. Wagner von Juaregg, a German doctor, in 1917. Von Juaregg had ob- served, in his contact with numerous 1 1922, and since then far more work has been done there along this line than anywhere else in the world. 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