Hartford Courant from Hartford, Connecticut • 23

News IEcflStorisiIls Part 3 Theaters Radio SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1933. plained to him as "something like television." Toys are provided; a friendly relationship is Heart Cure Dramatizes New Haven Clinic Work Policewomen Play Big Part In Crime Investigations policewoman and after passinf the examination with flying colors. Ella joined Misses Stanford and Conroy in October 1943. After spending two weeks with New York City policewomen. Miss Cieri, a graduate of the University of Connecticut, was working as a State Unemployment Compensation claims examiner and was in the habit of By JAMES M.

OWEX9 first policewoman, was working consisting of the physician In charge a medical social worker, a public health nurse, and other When the long arm of the lawll atone. I took the examination' reaches out for a criminal, the children are a pronounced blue! color. When Paul came to the New Haven Rheumatic Fever and Cardiac Clinic he had blue lips and finger nails, his cheeks had a bluish cast. Ten years ago medicine could 1 1 i law breaker is often amazed to I um conroy. oy the way, was; 'ZMthmVZ find the feminine hand of one of, the first woman to ever head a woman and thought the work the city's three policewomen.

city department when she wasjwould I be Called upon to assist in the in-'m charge of the Widows Aid De- out an appl cation, she recaUed, vestigation of all crimes 1931. After being fading that she was appointed ana was appointee Apru is-v named a policewoman, she was sent to school at Syracuse University to study police techniques. College Cut Short Miss Brown laughinly reports she didn't have the faintest idea that she would ever become a laHv mn ti'hsm cha u-ae crrnH. oi-uuui yss oi isoo d. Her first ambition was to be- which women or children are involved, Policewomen Vera A.

Conroy. Ella G. Brown and Lu cille Cieri have played major, roles in some of the depart-l ment's most publicized cases. "It would be difficult to oper ate a police department without if i fa policewomen in this day from Hartford High age," Acting police Chief Peter A. Anderson reported.

"They are just as important i a social -worker somv hin? she nmv ann os vprv ran. are under arrest, Policewoman fail y'k iiiaiuurijr as aiij- ft i 1 one else in the department," he'ab'y as policewoman so shenrcy saia wlt" a smue. said, adding "Conditions todav ai lrginia aiaie ouege. are different than they were 40 However, after completing three yers ago. For one thing.

there; and 8 half years, she was forced are more women involved in ar-t0 return home because of ill- ness in the famnly. Working as a bookkeeper, she nt ai" wtLa -1 I COAST-TO-COAST MARK-DOWN established between the child and the staff. Such attention to the child's frame of mind is necessary to carry him through the advanced diagnostic tests used at the clin ic. These include the cardiac cathenzation test, which was first used in Connecticut by the clinic. It involves taking a small amount of blood directly from the heart by means of a tube inserted through an arm vein, Angiocardiography is another ad vanced technique: a radio-opaque substance is placed in the blood stream and followed bji' means of X-ray as it moves through the circulatory system.

Surgical Results Successful In Paul Duchow's case, the tests clearly indicated the "blue baby" operation. About 200 heart operations have been per formed at the clinic in its six-year existence, and despite their often miraculous results they are earned out with the quiet dis patch of any other routine surgery. The artery leading from Paul's heart to his left arm was diverted to lead to his lungs, and for the first time his life normal supply of blood reached the lungs and absorbed vital oxy gen. Auxiliary blood vessels took over to serve the left arm. That's about all.

Penicillin Was used to prevent infection after the operation. There was a period of recuperation and gaining strength. Today Paul plays bas ketball and baseball and is caus- ing his parents a certain, amount of uneasiness by insisting on climbing to the top of the tree in the back yard. JPaul's Case Dramaic Cure Paul's case was one of the dramatic cures which the clinic can often bring about. But there" are other cases of heart malformation, or heart damage as a re sult of rheumatic fever, which cannot be so1 quickly corrected Various techniques to make these children's lives as long and nor mal as possible are used.

And meanwhile the research to find broader avenues to health goes on. National recognition came to the. New Haven clinic when it was made a regional heart center in 1950 for the New England states with funds from the Fed eral Security Agency. Now that other New England states are following Connecticut's lead in establishing heart centers, the New Haven clinic is reverting to treating children from this state only. New Haven Clinic Model Throughout the nation heart centers patterned on the New Ha' van plan of treating all regard' less of their ability to pay are being established.

In addition (Concluded on rage 2) Esoreiiinoi taking a short cut short cut through the ...5 Dec. 26, 1950. However, not all the assign ments given policewomen are on the grim side. Periodically, they receive complaints of a fortune teller and go and have their fortunes told. "Strange as it may seem.

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The medical so cial worker goes into the finan cial question with the parents, the public health nurse shows the parents how to care for the sick child without over-protect' ing him, the doctor describes the child's condition in detail to the parents, and tries to ferret out the multitude of fears and mis conceptions parents so often have about heart ailment. "In about half the cases," Dr. Whittemore said recently, "we are able to tell the parents after the examination that there is nothing wrong with their child's heart. This is the kind of news we like to give." For the unlucky other half, the parents become a kind of auxilr ary patient, instructed by the medical team in how to deal most beneficially with their child dur ing treatment. Friendly Child Relations The same close consideration is given to the emotions of the child.

The potentially alarming fluoroscopic examination is ex- THE CASE: Paul Duchow, West Hartford schoolboy, crouches in the position he used to recover his strength after any slight exertion. This is the typical "blue baby" position assumed by children suffering from severe heart obstructions. oaop -J i CUSTOM-FITTED FREE in 30 minutas nave aone uiue ior mm. tui late 1944 an operation to circumvent the obstruction was devised at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore by Dr. Alfred Blalock and others.

Among those who ob served the openng of this new avenue to health and helped care for the first patient was Dr. Ruth Whittemore. Since 1947 Dr. Whittemore has headed the New Haven clinic which has treated 2,700 children from Connecticut and neighboring states. Some could pay for the treatment.

Others could pay only a small part of the costs. Regardless of that, they all received a course of treatment which in its availability to all patients, has become a model for the entire country. New patients such as Paul receive an intensive diagnostic ex including electrocardiograms, fluoroscopy, X-ray, and other laboratory tests. The findings of this examination are then reviewed by a medical team Toy and Furniture Store Complete Display Juvenile Furniture Reg. $i0 Value! FAMOUS C0LLIER-KEYW0RTH FOLDING CARINA Built to give years of service.

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Three years ago a 12-year-old West Hartford boy was helped 'into the New Haven heart clinic for an examination. Hii case was desperate. His father, the Rev. Martin C. Duchow of Bethany Lutheran Church in West Hartford, had to carry young Paul into school every day.

Sometimes Paul could walk to the car, and sometimes he had to be carried. Sometimes he could make the stairs sometimes not. After any slight exertion Paul would squat down In exhaustion, gasping for air. From birth he had been a 'blue baby," suffering from a heart obstruction which prevented most of the blood from getting from his heart to his lungs. As a result very little oxygen got into his bloodstream.

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And for the edification of zoot suiters and others, it would hard ly pay to get fresh with these feminine law enforcers. All have mastered judo and like the male members of the department, car ry revolvers, hlackjacks and handcuffs. They also rate on the same par as policemen in autho rity and salary However, all the cases they in vestigate don end up with ar rests and that's just the way they want it. That's when they are able to keep a family together or steer a juvenile out of future trouble. "Ever so many children are victims or broken marriages, explained Policewoman Conrov the senior member of the staff.

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