European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Friday. September 15, 1989 the stars and stripes Page 7 crisis seen in . Emergency rooms by the Washington Post Washington Hospital emergency rooms in 41 Stales and the District of Columbia suffer from such serious overcrowding that the health of patients is threatened the nation s leading specialists in emergency Medicine say. In a Stark report issued wednesday the american College of emergency physicians warned that Over crowding could threaten the future of the country s Hospital  for millions of inner City residents particularly those without health insurance or regular medical care emergency rooms have replaced the family doctor in the past few decades. At places like . General hos Pital and Bellevue Hospital in new York City Emer gency rooms have become so chronically overcrowded that it is not unusual for people to spend Days in Gur Neys wailing for admission or to live in sleeping bags on the floor when All chairs and Beds Are gone. I Don t think the Public has any idea How severe this situation has become said Charlotte sch a member of the aces Board and chief of the depart ment of emergency Medicine at Newton Wellesley Koop critical of tobacco marketing Washington a surgeon Gen. C.  Koop criticized . To Bacco marketing Al Home and abroad wednesday backing a Bill to keep cigarette machines away from minors and declaring America is not respected Over seas because of the manner in which we Export disease and  Koop said inc epithet ugly american will indeed come Home to Roost in a  Ade or two when the developing countries of today Cali a what we did to  he said the wide availability of cigarette vending machines in the unite states makes a mockery of Laws forbid Ding minors to buy cigarettes. Would we tolerate the Sale of alcoholic beverages through vending machines he asked. Would we allow free samples of alcoholic beverages to be sent through the mail or passed out on Public property of course  Koop in what he said would be his last appearance As surgeon general on Capitol Hill testified at a House sub committee hearing called by anti smok ing activists in Congress. He supported a Bill sponsored by  , a Ohio that would for bid the placement of cigarette vending machines in any location accessible to people under 18. During the hearing. Reps. Chet at Kins d-mass., and Luken both took aim at possible Bush administration action against Thailand s ban on tobacco Adver Tising comparing the Case to the British East India co. Efforts to develop asian opium markets in the 1800s. Lukin is pushing in particular forbore restrictions on tobacco advertising in this country and Atkins wants tomake it impossible for the United states to Challenge any other country s limits on the Sale of american cigarettes. Along with Koop and other members of Congress they Are scheduled to testify next week at a . Trade representative hearing into whether Thailand s tobacco and ban is an unfair trading practice. The tobacco Institute said the Indus try has pressed the . Government to make it easier to sell in South Korea Japan Thailand and other countries but Only to give the . Industry a fair shot at the existing Market for cigarettes. Wherever Market barriers exist in foreign countries it is and should be our government s policy to eliminate them and promote Trade throughout the world tobacco Institute spokesman Charles o. Whitley told the Energy an Commerce subcommittee on transportation and hazardous materials. Hospital in Newton mass. Our biggest fear is that in a few years we will have no health care system  the report cited Many complicated and interlocking reasons for the emerging crisis and. Officials said with out Large and unlikely infusions of Public funds solutions will be difficult to find. The crunch is at least partly a result of cutbacks in health care services during a period of increasing de  the report said. The report also pointed to the massive increases in the number of drug related emergency room admissions the surge in aids cases the growing number of poor and uninsured patients the severe nursing Short age at inner City hospitals and a funding formula that pays hospitals less for patients treated in the emergency room than in other ways. The aces Survey found that inc problem is much More extensive than most officials had previously real bed. Hospitals in almost All of the slate of new York including its smallest Rural communities have become logjam cd with patients waiting to receive routine care from emergency doctors. Most of the Easl  and Many midwestern Stales have begun to face similar backups. Because Many people Only go to emergency rooms for medical attention rather than making regular  Tor visits the staff often spends at least half its Tim treating conditions that Are not emergencies. Thai is particularly True in financially strapped Urban centers thai most urgently need to dispense True emergency  is a crisis that will effect everyone who needs emergency care not just the poor said Stephan , chairman of the group s task Force on Over crowding and chief of the emergency department at new York s St. Lukes Roosevell Hospital Center. Some of my patients have no Means to  their Bill and some could buy the Hospital. But All of my patients wait. When there is no bed available it does t really Mailer How Rich you  said Public health officials need to devote More funds to Home health care and increase funding for nursing Homes. In Many cases there Are patients in Beds who should be in a nursing Home but cannot find a place. As a result patients who should be in the Hospital Are in the emergency room. Because inc Emer gency rooms Are full ambulances often Are forced to Circle hospitals like planes Over a crowded Airport he said. Archaeologists dig through dirt fur signs of life left by prostitutes to entertained civil War to naps in Washington. Archaeol of Sis dig up secrets relics of . Red Light District Washington a Archaeol Side the City. The District became which Seifert acquired from the l leists digging three blocks from the known As Hooker s division Ami its Barry of Congress declared that Thwait. Urbutt Hsii ,"irihv1 Irmi. A Iulius of Thi Iii it Lonk ii Nunilo no area was the Nhue snot of Wash Logist White House have unearthed thou Sands of relics from Washington s for Mer red Light District where civil War prostitutes earned their nickname entertaining Gen. Joseph Hooker s troops. Shovelling beneath an Asphalt Park ing lot just South of Pennsylvania ave nue in the Shadow of the Commerce department investigators this sum Mer found perfume bottles Gaudy but tons costume jewelry Garter Hooks and a cellar full of whiskey and Beer bottles. There was even a tiny antique Romp Seltzer bottle for treating a morning after malaise. Hooker the Union commander de fending the capital against Confederate forces tried to control the army of prostitutes following his troops by herding the women into a crime rid Den neighbourhood known As murder Bay away from his Encampment out Sid t know Ladie o the night too the name of hookers besides these artefacts of the Hook ers Trade the investigators discovered a wide assortment of objects left by common labourers immigrants run away slaves and other poor people who inhabited murder Biry in the mid-19th Century. The six week dig was completed two weeks ago. Experts have begun in yearlong Taik of cleaning cataloguing and analysing the More than 250,000 objects recovered from the downtown Silc for clues to the lifestyle of the Humble pc Opte who lived then Morel an a Century ago. Nobody famous lived Here. There s no George Washington slept Here " said Donna Seifert principal archaeologist with John Milner associates inc., a historic preservation firm based in West Chester pa., w hich conducted the dig. A newspaper article from the 1890s, which t acquire i Brar i the Are plague so washing ton with 109 brothels and 50 saloons. The pros dilutes packed their bag when Congress outlawed brothels in the District of Columbia in 1914, and the she was a cd in the late 1920s. Plans to build a monumental Plaza were abandoned in inc depression and the area was paved Over in 1931 to Creale a 1,300-car parking lot. Archaeologists uncovered an old cel Lar from a Rooming House whose boarders included several Prosoli lulls and salvaged Aboul 200 empty Beer and liquor bottles. Also found were fish Chicken and Steak Bones Many dating Back to the civil War. Seifert says these and other Mun Dane objects uncovered will yield valuable information about the denizens of the former gambling Dens saloons brothels and boarding houses what they ate and drank what clothing they wore How they spent their Leisure