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It is unfortunate that one of the most historic medical discoveries of all time, the Salk vaccine, should lead to feuding in Maine over who should cooperate with whom in administering the new treatment.

As of this morning the entire vaccine picture is cloudy. Yesterday Surgeon General Leonard Scheele proclaimed a temporary halt to release of further vaccine supplies. In making the announcement Doctor Scheele repeated his confidence in the product, but the mere fact that he ordered a halt to distribution is sufficient cause in itself to make a dent in public confidence.

This is no time to become panicky, or even suspicious. Medical scientists in whom we can have trust are working on the problem and in due time Will reach a satisfactory solution. It is important that the investigation proceed without hindrance and that public reliance on the best medical authority not be unduly shaken.

As for the Westbrook situation, a medical doctor's refusal to work with an osteopath has resulted in the Maine Medical Association registering its unwillingness to permit its members to work with osteopaths in vaccinating children.

There are, of course, disagreements of long standing between medical doctors and osteopaths, but we do not propose to discuss them here. They are irrelevant. The point is, this is no time to bring the feud out in the open again. A serious task far more pressing is at hand, namely, the first mass attempt in history. to defend American children against the crippling effects of polio.

The project already is a difficult one without adding more difficulties. If the Medical Association's code of ethics prevents proper cooperation for the public good, then perhaps the code is outmoded. Perhaps it wasn't written for the "Salk age." If so we can look to the distinguished leaders of the medical profession to make the necessary changes. ~ We wouldn't know the answer, but it does seem obvious that in tha Westbrook dispute someone has lost sight of a major goal while pursuing minor goals. It is too bad to pile unnecessary confusion and anxiety on an already disturbingly ~..;Jnfused situation.

The only protocol we should stand on now is what is best for the children of Maine. They should come first.

Osteopathic Hospital Merits Community Support A group of Greater Portland people have taken upon themselves the task of enlarging and improving the State's, medical facilities.

We refer to the announcement the other day that the Osteopathic Hospital or Maine seeks to raise $350,000 for a new wing. This money, coupled with a grant from the Federal Treasury, would make it possible for the Brighton Avenue institution in Portland to erect a 74-bed wing, with work starting in the fall.

In kicking off the campaign, Curtis K. Gerry, general chairman of the fund drive, saiQ. the present hospital had become sadly lacking

in room and that "it is a community responsibility" to remedy the situation and help this "hos:)ital continue .the remarkable work it is doing."

We hope the people of the area will not have to be reminded again that, as Mr. Gerry pointed out, proper medical facilities are in truth a community responsibility.

We owe it to the next generation if not to this to see to it that everything possible is done to maintain medical care at highest standards.

It is in keeping with this responsibility that the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine has launched its drive. It deserves the generous support of the people of Maine.

Appalled At "Cultist" Controversy Editor of the Press Herald: I was appalled and chagrined to read an article on the front page of you1路 MaY 6th paper entitled "Medical Association Backs Earnhardt, Labels Osteopaths Cultists' ". I wondered if we had suddenlY 1路everted to the Middle Ages! Such an attitude on the part of the Medical Association depicts only their unfounded prejudice and ignorance.

I have visited in Portland many times.

Several years ago I was a surgical patient in the Osteopathic Hospital and received only the very best of care from the doctors, nurses and staff. May I remind your newspaper and your readers that we are living in an Atomic Age. In the event o! a critical emergency I wonder if any injured human being would stop to question whether a D. 0. or an M. D. were administering aid.

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DR. EAR:\HARDT had protested to the school committee letter its action in directing t he nnd Dr. Lemieux work gether "as they had last year"' inoculating the children. said that, as a member of American Medical Associalion, he ··could not collaborate professionally with this group <osteopathic physicians)."

Dr. Lemieux said he wa~ "astounded and amazed" at Dr. Dr. Earnhardt ,.nna•t·nr.'s refusal.

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F'Iiday at the latest!. the original Salk tests . made on 169 Westbrook "[ EYE~ I~OC('LATED his "I FEEL 1t Is my duty and daw;ht>r and there were no responsi?ility _as health officer 1- ---= ==========- eomplaints;· Lerl'ieux aid. "I i~ the CitY of \'Vestbr<>ok to .con• gave her •hree shots o! the vac- tmue il1..e present plans fm mcine. • • oculation,'' he said. ''The proDr Lemieux charged th 11 t Dr. gram Will start Wednesday, as Earnhardt did not make known planned if th: vacc1~e he_re, tn him that he would not par- 1egardless of. w het.~er Dr. Eamticipate in the program <until hardt participates. after Lemieux asked Dr. Harold From Augusta, Dr~ Dean H. \Vatson, another osteopathic Fisher, state commlssione.r ?f physlcmn, to help with inocula- l'ealth and welfare who IS m tions. He said that the increa5e charge of the statewide Salk in th'! number of children to be ~"chool proaram, said. his office cct l'ad made it necessaty would take no part m the af"'three stations" instead of fair. one which was used last ' It is stricti~· a local problem." r. he sairl tonight. •·we designated ''Appar('ntlv Dr. Earnhardt Dr. Lem1eUX to take charge o! could work ~·ith on osteopathic the program In Westbr_ook behvsician but not with two," he cause he was health officer and • because he had worked on it D~ Lemie'iX was emphatic that last year. All we are interested he Salk shots woulrl be started m is that the eligible children t WednPsdav as ned. if•Contlnued on Page 2; 6th Col.

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In Brunswick, Dr. Daniel F. Hanley, executive secretary of the Maine Medical Association, said he felt "the problem can be solved so that there will be no delay in administerin:::- the Salk vaccine."

DR. LE:\IIEVX said that two or three other medical doctors in Westbrook had offered to help him with the program and that one had offered ·after he had heard of Dr. Earnhardt's objections.

That doctor eonfirmed his willingness to participate in the program to the Press Herald tonight.

In neighboring Gorham. a medical doctor and an osteopath plan to cooperate in giving the Salk shots.

DR. EARNHARDT'S letter to the school committee read: "This is to inform you that I cannot participate in this program as it is now set up. I have brought the matter to the attention of all practicing physicians in the City of Westbrook.

"I must advise you that if this program is canied through as it is now planned without the sanction of qualifying physicians in this area, and if any child should receive an adverse reaction to the material injected. weight of public opinion would fall heavily upon the shoulders of the Westbrook School Committee.

"I would further point out that personality problems or professional jealousy, so called, do not enter this matter. The American Medical Association does not recognize osteopathy as a profession nor will it allow members of the American Medtcal Association to collaborate professionally with this group."

Dr. Earnhardt said he and four other Westbrook medical doctors do not approve of the way in which the program has been set up and that they have refused to have anythin~ to do with it.

MD Agrees To Aid Osteopaths, In Giving Shots At Westbrook WESTBROOK-A medical doctor practicing in Westbrook has agreed to help osteopaths administer the Salk polio vaccine program for local schoolchildren despite the opposition of other medical doctors, the osteopaths said today.

A spokesman for Dr. Leo C. Lemieux, city health officer and an osteopath, said Dr. Robert M. Burns: MD, who lives at Windham and practices here, has agreed to help with the program.

TEAJ\1 OF THREE 1 Other than for th1s developA earn composed of Dl. Lemieux, Dr. Burns and Dr. Harold Watson, Westbrook osteopath, will admm1ster the program. the spokesman sa1d.

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had met with him this morning and agreed not to join in administering the program with osteopaths. They p r o m is e d a ~latement later today.

Dr. Earnhardt said today he assumes the program will go ahead under Dr. Lemieux's direction.

The whole matter is not at an end, however, Dr. Earnhardt implied. While Dr. Lemieux received a new three-year appointment this year as city health officer, there is no question but what an attempt will be made at the end of his current term to have a medical doctor installed in that office in his place, Dr. Earnhardt said.

Dr. Daniel F. Hanley, MD. executive secretary of the Maine Medical Assn .. said that medical doctors in Westbrook were entirely willing to see that the polio vaccine program is administered to the 838 children whose parents have assented to the shots.

However, Dr. Hanley said, Dr. Earnhardt had informed him that the Westbrook MD's are determined not to participate in any joint program with osteopaths.

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Dr. Hanley said that there would be no statement on the matter from the state medical Association. that it wa~ being left to a solution on the local level.

Dr. Earnhardt said the medical doctors meeting this morning agreed to issue a joint

statement on their position, and that he was in the process of drafting it. The statement would be issued later today, he said.

Dr. Earnhardt summed up his position in a letter to the Westbrook School Committee. In it he said: ' "The American Medical Assn. does not recognize osteopathy as a profession nor will it allow members of the American Medical Assn. to collaborate professionallv with this group."

Dr. Lemieux expressed himself as •·astounded and amazed" at Dr. Earnhardt's action. He 1·ecalled that Dr. Earnhardt had cooperated with him last year m administering experimental Salk vaccine shots to 169 Westbrook children.

What's more, Dr. said, "I e\·en inoculated his daughter and there were no complaints. I gave her three shots of the vaccine." He added: "I feel it is my duty and responsibility as health officer in the City or Westbrook to continue the present plans for inoculation. The program will start as planned if the vaccine is here regardless of whether Dr. Earn~ hardt participates:· A spokesman for the Maine

Osteopathic Association Mid there would be no statement forthcoming on the question from that body. Like the state medical association, the osteopathic group \\'as leaving the matter to be resolved at the local level.

It's Hard Rock Contractors preparing the excavation for the addition to the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine are having tough going in ledge. The ccntractor.s knew it was there all right but they didn't expect it to be so "'hard. ' However, target,

date for completion still is Augu-;t, 1957.

Here a heavy mattress is being swun~ into place as workmen prepare another dynamite blast. (By Staff Photographer Roberts)

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Portland (Me.) Sunday Telegram, June 13, 1954 .

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By Staff Photographer Olson A BIG CAUSE-The Maine Poultry Improvement Association has donated 125 dozen eggs to be used in baking a. 700-poWld cake in t.he shape of a gigantic lobster for the golden jubilee celebration of the Maine Osteopathic Association a.t Rockland next weekend. Acceptin~ the delivery from the Rev. James R. Pratt, right, of Windham, a director of the MPIA, are John Palanza, left, South Portland baker, who is directing the baking operation, and Graham White.

Leaving Maine

Staff Of Osteopathic Hospital Honors Dr. Harry J. Pettapiece

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A veteran of more than 30 years practice of osteopathic medicine in Maine was honored last night at the annual meeting of the staff of the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine.

Dr. Harry J. Pettapiece. 56, for the past 11 years chairman of the hospitars eye, ear, nose and throat department. is moving to Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., July 1.

He'll close his Portland office June 23.

Dr. Pettapiece is a past president of the Maine Osteopathic Association and was a member of the state's Osteopathic Board of Examination and Registration from 1932 to 1942. He will open a practice in Ft. Lauderdale.

After 17 years of practice in Camden, Dr. Pettapiece took a two year residency at the Kansas City College of Osteopathy in 1944-45. He then moved to Portland. The doctor is a past medical director of the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine and has been a certified specialist since 1949 . He is a staff member at the local hospital and the Bangor Osteopathic Hospital.

Dr. Dwight F. Brown was reelected staff chailman at the meeting. Also reelected were Dr. C. R. Hetzler, vice chairman; Dr. Thomas J. Miller. secretary; and Dr. Fisk E. Hallidy, treasurer. Dr. Eugene Puffer, Dr. Lawrence Newth and Dr. Mason Allen were newly elected to the staff executive committee.

The Contracts Are Signed

Contractors, architects and officials of the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine sign contracts for the construction of a $638,000 addition to the Brighton avenue institution. Left to right are Paul B. McL~llan, contractor; James C. Saundei路s, architect; Gerald M. Kelley, standing, administrator of the hospital; Albert E. Libby, president of the hospital board of trustee.:;; Stuart H. Bowdoin, engineer with the McLellan firm, and William L. French, treasurer of the hospital trustees. (By Staff ' Photographer Roberts)

The "Monster" Is Ready John Palanza, South Portland, puts the finishing touches on the largest lobster ever seen in Maine's biggest fishing port-Rockland. The lobster, made entirely of cake and frosting, weighs 750 pounds and is 11 feet long and five feet wide. It took three bakers and art school instructor Edward H. Engman two weeks to create "the monster". It was fashioned for the golden jubilee celebration o! the Maine Osteopathic Association, to be held Friday and Saturday at Rockland. It will be transto Rockland in a padded covered ll.undry truck. (By Staff Photographer Brid-

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ville College of Osteopathy and Surgery in Missouri for 30 years Dr. Mason H. Allen has been a practicin osteopathic physician in Portland. Many South Por land High School athletes have had their wounds all SPliS teams. He is married to the former Baker and they have two children, Dr. Thomas who is in the surgery department at the Hospital o! Maine, and Roger Allen, majoring in istry at the University of New Hampshire.

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Win Osteopathic Essay Contest Elaine Libby of Portland, second from left, and Diane Carlisle, Ellsworth, receive awards of $300 and $500 respectively for their future schooling after taking second and first places in the Maine Osteopathic Association essay contest on "Rural Health Problems in Maine." Dr. Roswell P. Bates of Orono, left, is secretary of Association, and Dr. Carmen Pettapiece of Portland, contest chairman. Miss Libby is the daughter of Portland Police Patrolman and Mrs. Ernest Libby. (By Staff Photographer Lou Moore)

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Osteopaths Told Abuses Peril repaid Medical Care Plans ROCKLAND, June have the moral paid medical care is in grave withstand pressures exerted danger of financial extinction upon h~ .. He must do his share of explammg contract terms to unless c~rrent abuses are rem- the patient." edted quickly, Dr. John Mulford These abuses, said the Cinof Cincinnati. o .. told the Maine cinnati osteopathic physician, Osteopathic Association tonight. occur because the patient deMulford. who is president-elect full health care in the of the American osteopathic As- modern sense of the term. This sociation. said, "Almost all would suggest an eventual_ dethe medical insurance compa- velo.pment of health plans fltte~ nies. whether commercial or mo~e closely to the patients non-profit, are in financial hot desires. . . water" "As ex1stmg plans have grown ,, · . . in size both patients and docMany of the commercial tors have fallen into a mythical compames balance losses agamst view of th insuring comp ny profits from other types of bus1e. a ness. But the non-profit organ- as .a large, Jmperson~.l mon~ter izations who~;e sole business of which can be bilked, obse1ved medical insurance face extinc- M~lford. . . tion if present trends continue " A reallstic view demands Mulford added. ' that we see the current system as one created by men to flU Five common abuses were certain specific needs and if noted by the Cincinnati osteo- abused one that will swiftly thic physician: Unecessary crumble," Mulford declared. iagnostic examim.. tions: paOther speakers today and totients remaining too long in his- night included Dr. Eugene Mcpitals; lumpin;?; old and new caughan of Ch!cago, Ill., execubills together: ~xcessi<e tive secretary of the American medJCatwn. and Osteopathic Associaticn: Dr. many hosPitals of Edward J. Ropulewis of Bangor, not needmg hos- MOA president; Dr. Elmer I. ' !.I"'"••"~.'LHJ_•.J. WhitneY of Waterville, retiring ~orrectwr;t of these abuses, MOA president and Dr. Earle said Mulfoid, must come fr<;>m BeasleY, Boston. each of the four . groups m- Beasley said the problem of yolved. These he. llsted as the caring for the aged is becommsur_ance compames themselves, ing mo.-e complex, posing a hospitals, patients an~ doctors. challenge for all physicians. It Insurance comp~.mes must is one of medicine as well as enforce their contracts to the of fully utilizing the capabililetter, said Mulford. Hosoitals ties of the aged, he said. must keep stricter accounting He pointed out that unless we do their share in enforcing find new ways of making use of their talents we are simply tossing them onto the scrap heap.

share of with docand patients." Mulford "The patient must learn to make demands for unservices, and must reurging his physician part in unethical de-

By Staff Photographer Olson RESCt:E EQUIP~IENT - Seen here demonstrating equipment which be on display during the first aid seminar to be held in Portland 路 next Sunday, left right, are Capt. H. Clayton Urquhart, Scarborough; Capt. Eric Abrahamson, Dr. Philip Haigis, Scarborough; and Fire Chief Carl P. Johnson. 路

By Staff Photographer Bridson J:-1 NEW LABORATORY-All rooms in the new wing are on the

Brighton Avenue side of the structure and large windows provide plenty of light where light is needed. Working here in the new laboratory on the ~round floor are. left to right. Miss Doris Harmon. MT, Miss Joyce Bellavance. laboratory technician, and Dr. Lowell M. Hardy, chief of the department of internal medicine.

Osteopathic Hospital To Show New Wing To Public Monday The new wing at Osteopathic Hospital of Maine. Inc , wlll be . . shov.n t"' the publ!c Rt Rn open housl'! from 2 to 5 p. m. Monday, National Hospital Day. The addition. which will be opened for occupancy Tuesday. will not be formally dedicated Monday, for 1111 details of con· ~truction are not yet completed.

Members of the Hospital Auxillary will conduct a.uests through the new area constructed at a cost of $175,000.

AlteratiOns in the old section of the hospital already are underway and probably will be completed by mid-July. Cost of the entire project, new wing Rnd renoratlons in the original sectlon, is est1mated at $245,000.

A total of 31 patient beds are provided in the wing of cinder block and brick on a steel frame.

Prcture windows in the patient 1·ooms. on the top two floors. look out ovcr the lawn and to Brighton Avenue. Bed-width doors make it possible for patients to be rolled out to balconies which line the full length on the front or t.lle bulldin!!. .•~z~,np tJ19 new wing adds 31 pa-

quarters while the new kitchen is under construction. But it was done so qmckly and efficiently that caterers supplied but one meal.

"Our patient load has never been below capacity during the construction period," Kelley said.

"Everyone has extended himself to the utmost to maintain the services during this period. And the patients have been wonderful. At one time Jackhammers were used to break through a three-foot concrete wall. We offered to move the patients nearest the work to the corridor of the new wing while the men were working. But the patients refused. They ·said we were ~tet­ ting something badly needed and they were all for it."

Officials of the hospital are planning fl. three-day concentratc.d drive in which they hope some 10,000 people will be contacted in ar. effort to raise $35,000 for further improvements to the original building.

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WESTBROOK, May 9-The Westbrook Clty Council I Health Committee tonight unanimously opposed a double Iclinic for distribution of the Salk vaccine here and sharply condemned the School Committee for giving the double 'clinic plan its blessing.

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''Two clinics are just going to cil can hold only one man reto the confusion which now sponsible for the public health exists in connection with the program in the City of West, Salk vaccine program in gener- brook and that that man is the aL" the three-tnan panel told city health officer.

"If anything should go wrong," 'the Pr~ss Herald. "We have every confidence in the local program said Chairm:m John R. Kennedy, as set up by our Health Officer "we would like to be able to go cDr. Leo C. Lemieux. osteopathic to one man for an accounting-physician) and we do not see not to several. And we feel that why this is the time for an ex- Rdministration would not be as pression of differences between efficient under two clinics. I nev-1 medlral and osteopathic doctors.'' er saw any business where two The committee's announce- bosses worked out. Cit~路 government reopened a controversy ment and public health is no started here when Dr Joseph different."

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1 refused to work on the program THE CO,I:VIITTEE also rewith Dr. Lemieux. After a blast buked Dr. David Davidson. disat osteopaths in general by the trict health officer who approved Maine Medical Association and vaccine for the two clinics, for rebuttals by the Maine and "disregarding the fact that the American Osteopathic Associa- City Council has a Health Com1tions, the Problem was apparent- mittee." ly resolved by an agreement to "At no tim e." the ~roup have two clinics, one run by Le- charged, "did anyone try to conmieux and a team of osteopaths, tact us as to our feelings in this and the other run by the medical matter which is completely a doctors under Earnhardt, the public health matter." school physician.

Kennedy admitted that the Parents were to take their City Council had no jurisdiction choice which clinic their chil- over the School CommitteE' as dren should attend and vaccines' far as forbidding it to spend ex-1 was to be furnished both groups. tra money for the second clinic.

"The only thing we can do is by the StatE' ~partment of Health and Welfare. :at budget time, cut their appro! The School Committee ap- 'priation by the amount the exproved the double clinic plan at!tra clinic has cost," he said. a special meeting Saturday Meanwhile, Westbrook's Salk night. . program like all others in the 'state awaits the go-ahead from THE HEALTH CO:V'IMITTEE national and state authorities likened the School Committee's while ~afety tests are being made.

I[ approval to thP Health CommitAt tonight's meeting were Kentee's interfering in educational nedy, E. F. Sterling, another 1 matters: member of thE' committee; Rus"We do not approve of the lo- sell K. Mors~. a member of the cal School Committee settmg up School Committee; and Leroy F. another health progmm any Lombard; a member of the Westmore than they would if we set brook Public Health Committee up a duplicllte educational sys- The third member of the Council tern because we do not like some committee, Roland C. Filion, was part of theirs." not presen~ but confirmed that Its three council members he agreed with the other mempointed out that the City Coun-' bers in opposmg a second clinic.

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Westbrook Seeks To Clear Vaccine ~uddle Today WESTBROOK-The Schoo 1 Committee will meet with a district health officer this evening in an effort to clarify plans for anti-polio inoculations here.

The program has been confused路 since medical doctors announced their refusal to work with osteopathic physicians in administering Salk vaccine to children.

Separate clinics, one staffed by medical doctors. the other by osteopaths, may be the answer to the problem. Leo C. Lemieux.

DO. city health officer, and Joseph B. Earnhardt, MD, whose refusal to work with Lemieux initiated the dispute between the state's medical and osteopathic associations, have agreed to such a procedure.

Dr. David Davidson, district health officer for York and Cumberland Counties, has said the State Department of Health and Welfare will provide vaccine to both such clinics. He is expected to urge the School Committee today to adopt some such program that will make the vaccine available to all Westbrook children.

Dr. Davidson has assured parents that if the School Committee does not approve plans for a second clinic, some method will be found to inoculate every child whose parents desire it.

The controversy between osteopathi~ and medical associations subsided yesterday with a. parting shot by the Osteopathic group.

They quoted from the American Medical Association Journal and from committee reports to the AMA House of Delegates that osteopathy does not constitute "cultist healing." '"Osteopthy has undergone a. process of evolution which bas brought it to a point of such similiarity with medicine that uo marked fundamental differences exist between medicine and osteopathy," they quoted from the report. ,

OPEN TO VISITORS-The new wing of Osteopathic Hospital of Maine, Inc .. will be opened to visitors from 2 to 5 p. m. Monday. ational Hospital Day. Members of the auxiliary will conduct

By Staff Photographer Bridson 1r~sts on tours through the $175,000 addition 'l''hich has been in construction since the Fall of 1950. The wing will be opened for occupancy Tuesd::~y.

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Special Food Cabinets

The desire to inau~ura te a 11.nd improved ~ystem of food from kitchen to brou,ht out ~ bit of 'ltork on the part of Gerald Kelley, hospital administrat.or.

Working with manufacturers of ::t rRbinet. KP!lcy and the firm came up with a special. pre-heated unit that handles both food and liquid0. kecpin~ both at proper temp!'!' a t.ures.

The finAl product i~ an adAPtation of a roll warmer with a humidif~ing devirc built into each drawer of the Ion~ c.11binet. Food is set int{) . e::tch drawer and hot beveragf's and ~oups IHP placed in an arrangement. on tht> top of t.he cabinet. The wholf' unit along with the tray cart. is rolled to the prop r floor. 'Tile pla~s food Rre p!Rced on till" trays and · lierved. In this fashion. all portions, servinR' and diets come under the control of the central kitrh,n.

R21rliant. lleRt from pipe · \ll1dcr trr floors warms t.hr. new v:ing Tl1rcc h•1rncr;; gl"ncratc the heat ::.nd ::~rc ~o insta11Pd that shnnlrl ol'lr- burner f~ il the others rany the

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St" rr Hcllll'cl T'ro.icd Construction of the n~w wing has pla ccct i\ terrific burctcn ori the sf~ ff Rnrl employes at hosp1tal. Kelley Is loud in praise or the men and women. ::tnd of the patients. whose coopert~tlon made the rhfficult OPPrlltlons ::tsfer. The entire kitchen had to be moved mto temporary

•. The ground flMr of the addition Includes service facilities laboratory, X-ray, radiUm ~nci fr::~cture rooms. nurses dining room, doctor's dmin!<' room, centr::.l supply, employes locker room diet kitchen and main kitchen · 'l,~,e second floor houses elght ~em1-pnvate rooms. pediatric ward. reception room. Rdmittin~ off1ce. off1ce of the supervisor of nurses, records room. doctors room and an emergency room.

Scv~'n semi-private rooms and two pnvate rooms are on the third ~loor of the addition. Every room m the wing is on the Bi·ighton Avenue Side of the building with the corndor in the rear. This will mak possible a central corridor if in year:; to come, lldditional room~ are added to the rear of the wing.

Equipment in the diagnostic ~>ect10n of the department of radJO!ogy IS ent1rely new. Electrically controlled. the machine may be moved mto any section by the flick of::~ :;witch and locked in that po~;!tlon by snapping another button.

Th~ unit combines fluoroscopy and X-ray 111 a umque featme t.hat enables the examining physicilm t.o r11pture on film the exact condition ~e note~ on the fluoroscope, not as ~~may be ten or 15 minute~; after he hils detected it. By f.hc flip of ~ 110ther swit~h. the !ilm holder is arfJIJ.st.ect o til at !mu· picturr.5, t.wo p1ctmc~; or one ture rna be made on the same

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CHICAGO, Aug, 31.-Dr. True B. Eveleth, former medical director at the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine. has been appointed executive secretary of the American Osteopathic Association, effective tomorrow.

Dr. Eveleth. who has been executive assistant at the national headquarters since 1952, will suclceed Dr. Russell c. McCaughan, who is retiring after 25 years as chief executive.

A native of Portland, he practiced there 15 years following his graduation from the Kirksville, Mo .. Colleae of Osteopathy and Surgery in 1937.

He was chairman of the Maine Osteopathic Association's department of public health. served on its legislative committee, its insurance committee and on the Maine Board of Osteopathic Ex\amination and Registration for two years.

He is a lifetime member of~------------~ the osteopathic Hospital of ary .lifetime membership in Maine and also holds an honor- state association.

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Po rtlandSurgeo nReveals V~stDiffe rene In Austrian And U.S.Hospital Program If you lire in Free Austria. you can be hospital sick without charge either from the hospital or from the doc~or, if you are an average working man covered by the government medical msurance program.

Or if you aren't insured, you can still go to a public hospital and be treated by hospital doctors for the equivalent of a dollar a day.

But there is one catch-you may have to wait awhile to get into the hospital-no matter how urgent your need for surgery or other treatment.

If you don't want to wait and can afford to pay. more. you can have a private doctor and go to a private nursing home and be admitted immediately, however.

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These are a few of the many diffP.rences between Austi"ian medical care and American noted

by Dr. Louis R. Fariey, chief of the surgical department of the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine.

Dr. Farley has just returned from a six-month postgraduate course in chest wrgery at a 1,400-bed Austrian public hospital.

How are hospitals over there ble to provide such inexpensive care when U.S. hospitals ~re hard put to make ends meet at $12 to ~15 a day with extra charges for almost every service? ''Well. the hospital I was in operated :1;672.000 in the red last. year," said Dr. Farley. "At the end of the year, the city, the province and the federal government all chip in and make up the deficit. Of course, the government takes a big bite out of the workingman's income for both insurance and taxes.''

How do the doctors like the "socialized medicine·· fouc:ht <O hard by the Americfln Medical Association?

"Strangely enough they like tt better than the old system,'' h" said. "Of course, they ~re still P.ermJtted to ~ave. pnvate ?11 t1ents, and the1e ate still pnvate hospitals. The doctors, however, say they make more money than they did before. Their fees are · h'"h b t they h a>-·p m ·e no t so ~~ . u OI patients" · GETS 1'~00 A MONTH .

(Dr. Fa!·ley said that the chlef sur;eon of the hospital where he studied made about ~200 ~ moi1 th Amencan money compa1ed With four-figure Il!-onthly incomes of doctors in stmilar positions m this country.)

"And if a hospital ~taff man

Back From Austria Dr. Louis R. Farley chief of the Osteopathic Hospital's department of surgery, examines one of a set of surgical instruments he brought back with him from Austria. (By Staff Photographer Roberts) takes a prl\·ate case. he mustl in~r at Saalbach, a. resort not ~ive 20 per cent of his fee to the frequented by many Americans. ho::;p;tal,'' he reported. "And then Tl;I'fiOX VERY T.ow income tax takes another sizeable chunk based on the whole lee." There they met a medical Dr. Farley found many other student who' was serving as the differences bet\veen Austrian and ski instructor to help defray his u.s. hospital and medical prac-~school expenses. He was in school tices too at the time but was not rcqUiren A general practictioner nev"!r to attend lectures as long as he comes in and assists in the oper- kept up his studies. He \\as, tf t· nt n'e has sent therefore able to go to school at 1011 ·ao . a · pa 1e . and still earn money many miles o sm ~ery. .

Internes serve three years away from his school. routinely, instead of one or tl\-o He said the tuition was ridicas in the US ulously low <something like $8 · · . a scmcsterJ over t11cre and that _ResJdent physicians serve as the college librancs all had many duplicate books so that a student h!::_,h a.s nme t~ 1 . years.

J.here are far f~wer nurses for could get through without havtho number of patients they mu~t mg to buv an ca1~ for patients often ca1e for ,themselves and fellow patien'j:; . • • • • • • • • • • • zr1

. Farley talked with one disillusioned exchange studen;:, at Saalbach who had spent a k · tl1 11·. rooms but must year in the U.S. and liked e .

American freedom so much that smo e m go to special smokmg rooms. he could not wait to get back All patients who !ire able and share his enthusiasm and stand ~P \VhP-n .the hospital chief his impressiOns with his friends. comes mto a ward or a room. .

But they weren't interested .

Key staff doctors have then· They did not even want to he positions for life. about America.

How do Austrian hospitals He talked ' with another stack u J with American? 'trian who had discovered w "The · one I was in had a democracy was while a much l.:>wer mortality rate in of war !n the United States. e:astric surgery culcers l than "Many of them over there ha the American average," he said. no conception of a life differrnt "I found very little difference from the one of strict governin surgical methods and tech- ment controls and restrictions niques, however. which is theirs," he said.

OFFERS BETTER STUDY What did he bring back from Austria besides more knowledge?

Dr. Farley chose Austria for A set of surgical instrwnents his postgraduate study partially of the finest steel and a Volksbecause of the skills developed wagen. there but mainly because a great He is definitely sold on the deal more anatomical study is German-built car. especially on possible over there than in many its independent wheel suspencountries. sion.

"If a doctor orders a post"It takes the bumps much mortem over there, then one is ter than even the highest nn<"''~­ performed unless the famtly goes American car," he said. to court and obtains an order forbidding it," he said. "There is thus much more opportumty for cadaver surgery and study."

He said that the law which provides for post-mortems passed in the 18th Century under the reign of Queen Maria Theresa, the theory being that "the dead should give their bodies for the benefit of the living."

He contended that the postmortem practice also gave Austria much more accurate statistics on the causes of deaths than are available in the United Stfltes.

While he was over there, Dr. Farley. also had the opportunity to see one industry in which 1 Austna is ahead of the United States in method. He said he was taken through a steel mill and shown the new Austrian process which produces steel much more rapidly than the American method.

Under the American method, air is forced through the Bessemer converter from underneath. The Austrians have improved this by using pure oxygen and forcing it into the converter from above. It is not only quicker but a cheaper process.

He said that officials at the plant told him that the method would probably soon be adopted in the U.S. and that already a plant using it was being built in Hamilton, Ont. His trip was not all vmrk for Dr. Farley. He took his wife a two teen-age daughters with and they spent three weeks 1

Portland (Me.) Press Herald, Saturday, Aug. 31, 1957

Hospital's Anniversary Matched By Edith Potter Twenty years ago Miss_ Edith Potter got a call from Dr. Myron Ladd to fill in for three weeks duty at the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine. Next Thursday the hospital, now located on Brighton Ave., will be 20 years old, and Miss Potter is still on the staff.

With the exception of a short time away for private duty, Miss Potter has worked ali of those 20 years for the hospital. Since the day she started with them on general nursing duty to this present day working in the pharmacy Miss Potter has seen a good many changes.

True to nurses' ethics, she "can't remember any unusual cases," except a girl with a ruptured spleen. It's a case of 'out of sight, out of mind' with her, because a nurse should never discuss a patient, she explains. "I do remember patients when I see them on the street;" she says. and • ''of course I speak. It's usually ten to one they don't remember me," she explained, "because I'm out of uniform. wearing street clothes and I don 't wear glasses in off-duty hours."

Counting Out The Pills .

Miss Edith Potter's seen a lot of new kinds of medicine during her 20 years with the Osteopathic Hospital of Maine. Story in cols. 3 and 4. (Photo by Elwell)

Miss Potter, member of St. Barnabas Hospital Alumnae Association finds it easier nursing in this new hospital than back in the old one on Pleasant avenue. Then it was 12 hours duty with only two night nurses for 25 patients, and three flights of stairs to climb, because the hospital had no elevator. Now nurses work eight hours.

She's known 80 interns during the 20 years, and liked

avenue except the necessities for one night. Two bassinets were available for the night. It was shortly after one baby was born, that the Lidstone twins of West Farmington were born.

It was one of Miss Potter's favorite interns. now Dr. J. Russell Moser of New York, who hurried over to Brighton avenue to take back the needed bassinet.

"IT WAS HARD with only two night nurses on," she explains, "because in case of emergency operation or delivery, one nurse had to devote ali her time to that doctor, leaving the other nurse with the rest of the patients. We always managed to get our a. midnight supper, though, even if it was 3 a.m. when we sat down to eat!"

In those days took a turn at midnight supper. "Once in a while an intern cooked," said. •·or. Sargent Jealous lnow in the X-Ray departmentl used to cook a steak once in a while, and it was always pretty good too."

Since June Miss Potter's been working in the pharmacy.

Right now she's having housekeeping problems due to renovation work. She takes all precautions to keep out dust when counting out the pills, clapping

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nue that the hospital ran short door quickly after each "visiof bassinets. Everything was tor," so that •·nary a speck o! t( packed to move to Brighton plaster dust can blow in."

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The Walls Come Tumbling Down Workmen :m~ tearing down the front third o! the original building housing thr. Osteopathic. Hospital of Maine as the year-long expansion project moves in to it~ final phaiie. The df'molishcd ~c ction will be. replaced with A. :;cction conforming in style to the two new wings. Thf' projN:t is putting a temporary crimp in hospital opera tiom:. (By Staff Photogr::~pher Roberts)

'Quiet'WeekendAtO teopathi Hospital Gives All A Chance ToWork-At Moving It looked like A nuict '1\·eek-1 AS THE CLEA;'II-Ur pro-J Moving the central ~upply end ahead for the Osteopathic 1grcssed, operating room nurses room posed a special problemHospital of Maine. carefully loaded operating room how to keep the hospital 5UP. piled With stenle maten!lls dur.

No operations 'l!.·cre sched- supphes and eqmpmcnt onto ing the transition period 1d ·d 1 t· t move stretchers 11nd wheeled them · u c - an 1 ca. lme 0 from the old surgic!ll suite into THIS WAS SOT.VED by mto the new suuncal sUite oc- the new wm~. workin~ the old sterilizing umt rupying the entire top floor of One of thl" old oprr11tin~ overtime to build up R stockpile the new wing. rooms was kept ready for usc of ,,tcrile supplies until the new Plan.s carefully mapped ou,t - just in case. sterilizer could be activated. w ks bdorc were set mto mnMidway in the moving. the In many instances, the movcc ~ the last ·contractor'.< operatm~ .1·oom .~taff w::~s alert.- ing problems were somewhaf. . .• ft. 1 · lt 1 ~~·ntn- cd . An accident Victim was com- .

1 \\01 Kman e .. 1osp R m~ ,c mg 11 pst!lirs from thr rmcr- SimP 11.!.1c d by tl. 1c f ac t, th a.t new nance employes movte1_dnmdutsot gene. 1.'oom. While ~~;rgf'l'y \vas equipment duplic!l ted fome of clran. 11\I!IY construe o performed thr mavin~ J·ob con- the old -- pcnnitlintr the olrl and d1rt . · .' . . ~ to bn npl'ra ted until thP. new A 1. ~idrnt phy•ician )1cekcrl tmucd umntellupted. thanks to w::~s Il'adv. c • ·t 1 1 k carPful plannmg. mlo t,he surclcal Slll e ,o nn "We workf'd out. A basic plan "Bcfon; llllY or the new CrtlliPnvrr the four nr.w operat.mR to rover each phasP of thr ' move ment was Tlllf in!{) use." Kelley rooms .. Within rr:mutes. he'd mto our new wing., SAirl Ge,·- sa1d, "we conrluctf'rl indoctnnashed his white coat and Pitched · · · · t10n classes for all who would ln to help with the cleaning ald M. Kelley, hOSPitAl admm- l.ISC l•t •o tllat. tl1ny n·nul ... bn IStra tot•. "It helped to tnmp!Jfy o • n 'J r. b .10 • matters." thorou~~:hly familJar with it.s As each or the four operating ubilization."

Further complicatmg the rooms was readied for usc, a mock operatiOn was performed moving process was the fact to acquaint nurses and surgeons that the front thad of the ongWlth the new equipment and ina! hospital hu1ldmg has to the changes in phys1cal layout. be torn down to make way for

A Sll\tiLAR PLAN was fol1owed when the obstetrical department was moved. Here too. nature intervened at a crucial moment . â&#x20AC;˘Just a~ the movP. began. R mother-to-be wa~ rushed into the new delivery room. Her baby- fhr> fifth in her famil,v - wa~< born within 1111 hour aHrr thr move w~s completed Thr. year - Ion~ expansion pro.ird th~ t's ~lclvly grinding to an end broul!hL m~ny chan'!es. So many in fact.. that an information drs!< h~d to be set up for hospit.~l employe~ to kef'p them abreast of each move.

"Wc'r" ~Pttin~:t up an indoctrination program for the employes currently on vacation.'

Kelley explained. "Without it they'd have a hard tune finding their way around the first day back on the job."

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is completed in a few months, the Osteopathic Ho.~pital will have feivcr beds. When the srct.ion is finishrd. thr hospitlll will boast ~bout 45 ::~dditional ~路 beds. ~'路: The nrw employe~路 cRfrlrri::~ ~.; ~nd kitchen is not :vet complct.- 路 cd. Until it is, thr ho~pital is 1 continuing lo ll F ~ the old kitchen in the ori::inal buildmg "This po~r.s ~omr. SPP~'ial tramporta tion problems." Kellry said. "DiP!.ary d~partment people ::~rr. grttin~: quitr adept at ,1ockeyin:: wheeled carts containin~r patients' meals through a maze of construction staging .Just outside the kitchen entrance."

All in 1111. ~ays Kelley, the task of moving the ho~~~tai is not too tough - provided you have a plan and a smooth functioning team of employes.

"Fortunately." hr. said, "we've had both. That helped tremendously to :~void what othcrwi:;e m1ght have b!'cn a rnul:'h time for everyone " -