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Former Sanitorium Head Advocates Election Now Hr John c. Wessell, for more ' 30 years head of the tuber lar sanitorium in New Hanover "tv which was recently aban "ed ‘ with the construction of ciuethenthal Airbase, has assem bled data from North Carolina Lcords and turned his report over 1 the local health department in 'port of his belief that the Board of County Commissioners chould adopt a resolution calling L a public election, instead of Indefinitely postponing action. pr Wessell stated Monday, fol lowing action of the Board of Commissioners postponing the election, that the matter of a new tubercular sanitorium, which has been in flle °fflnS for some months, should be left to the peo ple to decide whether or not the pme was ripe for such an under taking. Commissioners voted three to two. to defer action until a •more favorable time.” p- Wessell’s report shows that U 1913 there were 1,568 deaths ;!om tuberculosis in North Caro lina According to statistics of the United States Public Health Serv ice and the National Tuberculosis Association, any given locality should have two hospital beds far each annual death from the dis ease. North Carolina has 2.485 hos. pital beds for tuberculosis pa tients, Says Dr. Wessell. Divisions of these beds are as follows: North Carolina sanitori um, 650; Eastern N. C. sanitori um, 220; Western N. C. sanatori um, 320; Insane Asylums and Cas well Training school, 336; and 959 beds in other county hospitals. Dr. Wessell’s figures show that this state is short 671 hospital beds for tuberculosis to reach the required statistics. The former sanitorium in New Hanover county averaged 34 pa tients during 1943, and 36 patients for the years 1941 and 1942. The daily cost of tuberculosis patients in 1942 was $1.96. Much of the time there were patients on the waiting list. Many new cases are found at induction centers and in mass X-raying of defense workers and in large industries by United States Public Health Service and the State Board of Health. Dr. Wessel states. P. P. McCain, superintendent of state hospitals, states that accord ing to a nationally accepted for mula on the disease, there are from eight to 10 times the num ber of existant cases from the number of annual deaths from tu berculosis. Dr. Wessell states that from a humane standpoint, far - advanced -- * " • GILLESPIE HEADS MISSION SCHOOLS Dr. Arthur S. Gillespie will head the faculty in a School of Mis sions to be conducted at Temple Baptist church March 5 to 10 in clusive, it was announced Thurs day. Dr. Gillespie will preach at both morning and evening services on Sunday, March 5, at Temple church. Each day during the week there will be classes for the var ious age groups in the Temple vv Oman’s Missionary society. At 8:15 p.m. each night Dr. Gilles pie will bring a missionary ad dress. Dr. Gillespie was for 12 years a missionary of the Southern Bap tist Foreign Mission board in Chi na. He was acting president of the China Baptist Theological Se minary at Kaifeng. The school was moved from Kaifeng about a year and a half ago to Shanghai. Dr. Gillespie continued to serve there as acting president and tea cher of New Testament interpre tation until he was interned by the Japanese about a year ago. The missionary returned to America on the Gripsholm last December. Other members of the faculty of the School of Missions are the Rev. and Mrs. David Shelton, mis sionaries of the North Carolina Baptist State Board of Missions; Mrs. Harry VV. Weeks of Rich cases, and cases showing no im provement in 18 months, should receive special attention. These cases are the richest source of infection to other people and should be separated from the gen eral public by hospitalization, he states. - mond, Va.; and Mrs. L. C. John son of Wilmington. China will be the subject of study throughout the School of Missions. Classes for Sunbeams, Junior Royal Ambasadors and Girls Auxiliaries, Intermediate Girls Auxiliaries, Y. W. A., and Adults will be offered. Evening classes start at 7:40 p.m. with the general assembly and mission ary address by Dr. Gillespie at 8:15 p.m. The public is cordially Invited. -V Pencil marks once were erased with bread crumbs. 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