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THE CHINA MAIL

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1961.

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TALENT IN

VISUAL REPORTING

CAPTURES DRAMA AT DAWN

GREAT CITY

5.30 a.m. at Grand Central Hospital: Bizarre encounter for doctor and patient

NEW YORK,

IT'S 5.30 in the morning, but This big, blustering city has no respect for time. Even at 5.30 there is no calm, no relaxation.

And the scene is all too common, though no camera has ever beep allowed to record it, Into the Grand Central Hospital of New York City is rushed a "junkie,” a hopeless, helpless drug addict. A man who, in his furtive eagerness to get his "tix" has taken too much.

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It means the risk or a heavy Jail sentence to be found with drugs or a hypodermic. 80 for safety addicts often get together in groups. Some- times they make their equipment themselves, all using the one syringe. And this adds a new danger- lnfection.

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Once, for instance, an addict suffering from malaria joined a group. In a matter of hours nine of his fellow junkies were taken to hospital -five of them raving from cerebral malaria.

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