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by Willis J. Walker, Jr.
BETTER HEALTH CARE FOR BLACKS THROUGH
MATERNAL AND INFANT CARE AND FAMILY PLANNING
PROGRAMS
This week, I am delighted to present the first of two articles
prepared by Dr. Edwin S. Bronstein, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Bronstein is an Associate Professor in the Medical College
of Georgia’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology.
Today, fewer black babies are dying during the first year of life
in Richmond and the surrounding 10 counties of the Maternal
and Infant Care Programs of the Medical College of Georgia and
the Richmond County Health Department. No black mother has
died in pregnancy during 1968, 1969, and 1970, whereas many
died in the years before then. In the 11 counties of the project, a
black mother knows that today, her baby has a greater chance of
being born alive and living than at any previous time in the
history of our community.
How has all this come about? Two of the major reasons are
that most black women in these counties (Richmond and the 10
surrounding counties) are having their babies at the Talmadge
Memorial Hospital and the University Hospital in the Maternal
Infant Care Project. They are getting quality medical care for
themselves and for their baby. Secondly, more black women
today have access to modern methods of birth control in their
community. These women are more than ever before using the
newest and the best methods of birth control available through
the family planning programs of the Medical College and the
Health Department.
Modem birth control methods such as the pill and the Loop
plus quality maternal and infant health care are all part of a
program of complete family planning. The goal of family
planning is to help each couple space the children they plan to
have so each pregnancy is a wanted one. Each family can then
have the family size they desire. Spacing children and providing
them with good health care leads to healthier mothers and infants
with less deaths during pregnancy and the first year of life.
Family planning means more than the use of birth control
methods. It means premarital counseling and prenatal care. It
means infertility care for those who want to get pregnant but
can’t. It also means having sterilization and abortion available
when they are desired by a person or a couple. It means an annual
physical examination, cancer (Pap) smear, and breast
examination. It means genetic counseling, which is very
important, especially in a family which has a disease like Sickle
Cell Anemia that runs in the family. A couple wants to know
what chance their children have to get this disease and what can
be done to prevent this from happening. All of these pieces fit
into the complete program of family planning.
Today in Georgia we are moving toward a statewide voluntary
program in family planning. Governor Carter in an executive
order asked for a completely voluntary program of family
planning for all citizens of Georgia. Plans are now being
developed to carry out this order. At the Medical College new
proposals are being made to expand our family planning
activities. At the present time among poor people in Richmond
County, only 30% of those women who would need family
planning are using the services. Our goal is to reach many more
who want these family planning services.
Family Planning information can be gotten at the Health
Department, the Augusta Area Planned Parenthood Association,
and at the Medical College. A complete program of family
planning used by all the people who want these services is our
objective. This achievement can only lead to further improvement
in the health of each family and the saving of many more mothers
and babies.
BIOMEDICAL SUPPORT FOR MINORITY SCHOOL
The Division of Research Resources of HEWs National
Institutes of Health has announced that institutions of higher
learning with pfedominantly ethnic minority student bodies will
be able to participate in the first federally-supported grant
program designed specifically to bolster their biomedical research
and research training capability.
The Minority Schools Biomedical Support (MSBS) Grant
Program applications and program guidelines have been mailed
to some 125 four-year colleges, universities, and health
professional schools whose student enrollment is drawn mainly
from ethnic minority groups. Ninety-five of these are institutions
founded for blacks, eighteen are Mexican-American and Puerto
Rican, one is American Indian, two are oriental, and nine are
composed of Hawaiian and other racial extractions.
The new program is consistent with the clear mandate
expressed by the President of the United States in his
Congressional message of February 22, 1971, proposing measures
to “expand, opportunities for higher education” for minority
groups. It also is responsive to the Senate Appropriation
Committee Report of July 29, 1971, in which the General
Research Support Branch of the Division of Research Resources
was encouraged “to initiate a program for the development of the
health sciences at predominantly black colleges.” Appropriations
were set at $2 million for fiscal year ‘72.
“The main thrust of the MSBS Program is to strenghten
institutional capabilities and pave the way for me meaningful
biomedical research activity in the black, brown, red, and other
ethnic minority schools,” said Dr. Thomas G. Bowery, Director
of Niffs Division of Research Resources. “At the present time,
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Mr. Curtis Cisrow, chairman,
announced last week that Mr.'
Chet Trower has been named
Executive Director of the
Federally Funded Program.
Trower has been granted a
year’s leave of absence from
the Citizens and Southerns
Bank where he is a loan
executive.
At a press conference Friday
morning Trower said, ‘“Today
could very well be one of the
most significant in the
socio-economic history of the
city of Augusta.
We are beginning a program
designed to lift many
Augustans from the abyss of
unemployment and
underemployment, by helping
him to help himself, by
instilling in him a sense of self
worth.
0.1. C. is here to help the
disadvantaged acquire his fair
share of ownership in
American Economy.
0.1.C.’s program of self help
through motivation, and
self-respect, coupled with basic
education and skills training
has worked and continues to
work in each of the nearby 100
0.1. C. Centers throughtout the
country. In Phila. nearly
10,000 persons have been
placed in jobs since the
programs inception, adding
some 45 million dollars in new
purchasing power. In addition
some 10 million dollars in
welfare expenditures have been
saved.
In Charlotte, N.C. 0.1. C. has
been hailed as a “god send”
students originally thought to
be untrainable were referred to
the center and an
overwhelming majority of
them have been made into
productive individuals. The list
could go on from San Diego to
Senegal; from New York to
Nigeria. 0.1. C. has met with
unprecedented successes,
success where other manpower
agencies have failed.
In the words of Rev.
Sullivan “we train people for
jobs and not diplomas.”
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fewer than 600 blacks have a doctorate in the sciences. There are
more than 250,000 science Ph.D.’s in the country. We hope to
stimulate greater involvement of faculty and students so that the
Nation may benefit in the future from this almost untapped
resource.”
Twenty-five minority institutions were surveyed during the
past summer by the General Research Support Branch to
determine their needs and capabilities in the biomedical research
area. In October, administrators and scientists from ninety
minority instutitions participated in nine area meetings at which
tentative guidelines were discussed. From these nine meetings and
other consultations, the framework of the Minority Schools
Biomedical Support Program was developed.
Awards under this program will range from approximately
$30,000 to $500,000 per year for a possible five-year support
period. Applicant institutions will compete for available funds at
three levels of activity. Smaller awards could enable institutions
to support the activities of a few faculty members involved in
individual research or research training activities. At the
intermediate level, the institutions could extend and expand the
biomedical activities of one or more departments, such as
biology, chemistry, psychology, etc. In the larger grant category,
institutions could make long-range commitments for the general
expansion of their overall biomedical research capabilities
through the involvement of sizeable faculty groups.
The MSBS Program is designed to provide institutional support
for biomedical research and research training rather than support
of individual categorical research projects. Funds awarded under
this program may be used for a broad range of
biomedically-oriented purposes including the support of faculty
“release time”, biomedical research programs, salaries of research
personnel including undergraduate and graduate students as
research or laboratory assistants, research training programs,
undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate research trainees,
research resources, and consortia biomedical programs.
Only one MSBS award will be made to a successfully qualifying
institution for the present, according to Dr. Robert J. Gibbs,
Chief of the General Research Support Branch, which administers
the grants.
“Institutions founded for blacks constitute the major group
eligible for the MSBS Program”, Dr. Gibbs noted, “but the other
ethnic minority institutions have like needs and capabilities which
can and will be served by the MSBS Program.”
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All of these 0.1. C. Cities
have a least one thing in
common. The community they
serve realized the gravity of the
unemployment in their cities
especially among the
minorities. They decided to do
something about it. 0.1. C.
represented the way they could
translate this conrun into
action, action that gets results.
0.1. C. especially Augusta
0.1. C. is not asking for a
hand-out, we don’t believe in
give aways. WE WORK TO
HELP OURSELVES.
But we do need
Cooperation-Cooperation from
every member of the Augusta
Community concerned with
this city’s future. Cooperation
from every businessman who
realizes that jobs for the
disadvantaged means an
increased buying base for the
City of general; Cooperation
from every minister who has a
disadvantaged person in his
congregation, cooperation
from the civic leaders in this
city.
Together, and only together
I mean every segment of the
Community, we can make this
program a success and a very
favorable reflection on a city
that has recognized a problem
and marshalled its resources to
help solve it.”
Trower is a graduate of
Johnson C. Smith University
and has attended Augusta
College. He is married to the
former Jacqueline Reese. The
Trowers live at 1636 15th
Street. They have one
daughter, Keisha.
CAC Meeting
Postponed
The Community Action
Committee will not meet
during the month of
December, according to John
M. Smith, Jr., CAC chairman.
The next meeting will be held
as regularly scheduled on the
third Monday night in January.
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Durham-England
Mr. and Mrs. Edward
Durham of Route 1 Appling,
Georgia announce the wedding
of their daughter, Roberta, to
Mr. Rufus England of Augusta.
The wedding ceremony will
be held at the Second Mount
Carmel Baptist Church of
Appling on Sunday, December
19, at 4:30 P.M., with the
Reverend M.J. Whitaker
officiating.
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your street?” He said, “It’s in
my area.” I said, “When do
you cover these streets?” he
said “I haven’t been on this
one yet” He’s been working
about five or six years. When is
he going to get on these
streets? They are being paid
but nobody checks on the
checker. The Superintendent is
not doing his job and the man
working under the
Superintendent doesn’t have to
do his because he knows that
he (the Superintendent) is not
coming.
But when it comes to
whitey, the Superintendent
stays up on the hill. They’ve
got trucks on the hill picking up
trash everyday. But down here
they pick it up every other
day. And these are the things
we are trying to get
straightened out.
Down on Gwinnett Street
just below Twiggs Street,
where the junk yard is, they
had taken city property to run
a private business on. Six or
seven men used to work in
those barrels every day on the
sidewalk. They’d take the
barrels in after five o’clock.
Next morning they’d put them
out. The kids walking to school
had to walk in the streets. So
that’s the first job I had taken
care of when I got on City
Council - to get that sidewalk
clean. We had to take the man
to court and the judge fined
him a hundred dollars. But if
you go down there now, you’ll
find that sidewalk clean. And I
go by there just to let him
know that I’m still looking.
Question: What is the status
of the James Brown Boulevard
issue?
Answer: Right now, the
James Brown Boulevard issue is
before a committee of six. On
that committee are three
people that live on Gwinnett
Street and three people from
the Historical Committee along
with myself. Right now, we are
trying to come up with a
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changing of James Brown
Boulevard.
Question: What do you
mean by a “suitable answer”?
Answer: Well, the
committee was poled and they
all voted “No”.
Question: That is not to
change it?
Answer: Not to change it.
But they did not report back
to the confirmed. A
recommendation will have to
be made to the Public Works
Committee and then to the
City Council for final action.
Question: You, as a member
of the Public Safety
Committee, recently made a
trip to Charlotte, North
Carolina to observe their new
six million dollar jail facility. Is
the present jail in Augusta
adequate? If not, what changes
need to be made.
Answer: There are a lot of
things wrong with it. Sleeping
facilities are inadequate. There
are no elevators. No bathroom
facilities. You can’t take a
shower or nothing. No place to
eat. You’re just there, and the
food is brought in from...they
go out and get a balogna
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The only bathroom is there in
the cell. And it’s not closed in.
It’s just an open bathroom
sitting in the corner. The jail is
obsolete. We need a new jail to
house our people.
Question: Whereas it is
important to have adequate
facilities for people in jail,
what plans are being made to
keep people out of jail? That
is, in terms of jobs, job training
programs and a crack down on
drugs, are there any
constructive programs being
initiated to combat this end of
the problem?
Answer: Initiated by the
City?
Question: Yes.
Answer: None. None that I
know of.
Question: Do you feel that
the City ought to be doing
something along these lines?
Answer: Sure.
Question: Then whose
responsibility is it to initiate
these programs?
Answer: I feel like it’s the
responsibility of the Public
Relations Department of the
City Council. I don’t know
who heads that Department. It
would be a good program to
initiate.
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