PATIENTS FLOWN FROM BERLIN
SERIOUS CASES OF TUBERCULOSIS BERLIN, January 18. Allied air lift aeroplanes yesterday began evacuating the first of nearly 1500 seriously ill tuberculosis patients from blockaded Western Berlin to hospitals in Western Germany, The first group of 60 patients loft the Royal Air Force's Gatow airport yesterday and another 60 are to fly out to-day, Arrangements have been made io place them in hospitals at Goslar, Brunswick, and Hamburg, In the British zone. The evacuation of the 1500 patients is expected to be completed within two months. Major Richmond Paine, the American Military Government's public health chief, said that the patients evacuated had agreed to stay in Western Germany for the duration of the blockade or for a minimum of six months. They were being evacuated because of the shortage of coal for heating caused by the Russian blockade, and to free sorely-needed hospital beds. The Allied authorities estimate that there are about 14,000 eases of active tuberculosis in Western Germany. There has never been sufficient hospital space since the war to accommodate all who need treatment.
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Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25705, 18 January 1949, Page 7
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