European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 3, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stateside the stars and stripes april health science news up photo Price Bill Doest pliers like these caused a Public outcry last when taxpayers Learned that the air Force was paying a pair for the Boeing military air plane said in july that it was cutting the Price of the pliers to and in october announced a Price of the Washington Post reports that each time Boeing reduced the prices of the pliers and 50 other it added a higher support equipment management charge to the total air Force thus keeping the Overall Price of the order at jobless Man Dies of Burns after setting himself afire Louis a an unemployed Man who doused himself with gasoline and set himself afire after becoming depressed about not being Able to find work has died in the Burn unit at Barnes a Hospital spokesman William walked up to a pump at a South Side gasoline station at about 6 sunday and poured gasoline Over his body and police officer Thomas Neske he then stepped into the Street and set himself on Neske Jack the assistant manager of the put out the fire with an 500 Gallons of Coffee liqueur spilled on Miami storage Miami a a forklift dropped a tank filled with Tia spilling about 500 Gallons of the Coffee liqueur onto a port of Miami storage authorities Ive never seen this much booze on the said Ray a District chief for Miami fire its a Hazard because this is a flammable it is a chemical spill specialist was rushed to help spread absorbent material Over the Sticky said port director Carmen five City fire trucks were Dis patched to clean up the Sweet mess created by the 53 proof Senate finds intimidation in treatment of mental patients Washington up a six month Senate investigation of the treatment and care of mental patients in 12 states found a climate of fear and inti physical abuse and overuse of a report disclosed the investigation also concluded that the of care and treatment for residents at those states institutions for the mentally ill and mentally retarded Are the findings of this investigation demand the 246page report abuse and neglect of Socie Tys most vulnerable citizens must care and treat ment must be provided in an atmosphere of dignity and the report was issued by a Senate subcommittee on the headed by Lowell Weicker has had a longtime interest in the problems of the nations mentally ill and handicapped the subcommittee opened three Days of hearings on the problem panel investigators spent six months at 31 institutions in 12 states reviewing the care to the institutionalized and found that Many facilities did not maintain decent living on too Many wards of state facilities for the men tally residents and staff exist in a climate of fear and the report on Many patients and residents Are vulnerable to abuse and serious physical it documented incidents include kicking or otherwise striking sexual advances and verbal threats of injury and other forms of in Many the report there is Little treat ment other than and most institutions visited by the Senate investigators used medication on an As needed medications and mechanical restraints Are often the Only alternative or backup in direct care staff at tempts to maintain it the report said the Justice which enforces the civil rights of institutionalized persons has opened Only a handful of investigations into the the departments Lack of timeliness and consistently conciliatory approach in the face of flagrant abuses of the institutionalized mentally Al lows these conditions to distorting the purpose of congressionally mandated the report assistant attorney general William Bradford Rey nolds said the department has begun investigations of 14 mental hospitals and 11 mental retardation facile fourteen investigations remain he Reynolds defended the governments record in Deal ing with the Issue and criticized the subcommittee for failing to consult with the Justice department before issuing its the report also found some facilities had no internal with wards appearing Barren and in with the smell of urine and cigarette smoke in the and with patients sleeping on bathroom state systems for monitoring compliance with Laws regarding patients rights vary while the Federal government spends billion on institutions for the mentally Many Resi dents do not receive even minimal services and some funeral Homes reluctant to Bury aids victims Dallas a when 2ayearold James David Witherspoon died of his family was unable to find a Dallas funeral Home that was willing to Bury the child finally was taken unceremoniously from the Hospital where he died to a cemetery for graveside the Witherspoon family is not Many families of victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome say their grief is compounded by the treatment they receive from funeral Homes that Are reluctant to handle Bur Many aids victims Are treated worse than said David the executive director of the National funeral Home funeral Industry officials told the Dallas times her Ald that a fear of contamination has prompted a grow ing number of Texas funeral Homes to refuse to handle aids though medical experts say embalming and full funeral services can be safely some funeral Homes place strict conditions on the such As refusing to embalm bodies or rejecting the wishes of families for open casket a Dallas woman identified Only As Sarah by the times Herald said when her son the funeral Home refused to embalm his it was bad enough that my son was in the Hospital for 49 Days and i lost but the last Straw was the funeral she that just Hurt so bad i can hardly stand they acted like he was 1 think they were scared of the complaints of families include allegations that some funeral Homes have overcharged for services involving aids victims and have misrepresented the danger involved in aids disturbed by the growing number of such the Dallas Gay Alliance last week asked the Texas department of health to Issue statewide guidelines for aids Peter an epidemiologist at the National Center for disease control in said embalm ing can be performed with Little or no risk to mortuary employees As Long As proper protective garments Are the virus that causes aids is transmitted through blood and body and not through the he report focuses on feminization of poverty Annap women comprise slightly More than half of the worlds yet they perform More than two thirds of All work earn Only 10 percent of the worlds income and own less than 1 percent of its said a report presented monday at a conference on women and the today titled world feminization of emphasized How poverty is victimizing growing numbers of women and said Rosemary Sard of the University of Michigan school of social one of the to the Best of my it is the first time a conference has focused on the feminization of she said during an in a study released monday at the Sam used Michigan As a microcosm of Smolc conditions fits contribute to their inability to improve their Sarri said she and her assistants reviewed census Bureau data for reports by various state agencies and United nations working women nationwide earn Only 59 percent of an average mate workers she because of the growing number of families headed by the disparity has a profound effect on she the average family income in 1982 was but the average was Only for female headed Sarri if youre head of a family with income of you cant live in a lot of she in the average family earned in but the average female headed family took in Only she for families headed by women with children under 6 years the figure was the biggest Impact in Michigan has been on the Chil she weve had steadily increasing rates of infant mortality in the health threat to members of female headed House holds stems not Only from Low income but also from inadequate or nonexistent health Sarri Many Are working at jobs that have no benefits such As employer paid medical she with these Low there in terrible in Only 59 percent of All pregnant women in Michigan had adequate prenatal health Sarri socioeconomic status of women in Michigan and the United states also indicated that women remain victims of occupational to comprise a majority of nursing and service Industry