[Dixielandjazz] Gentrifying New Orleans' Bourbon Street-- more comment

[Norman Vickers]

To:  Musicians & Jazzfans; Pensacola Mencken list and DJML

From:  Norman Vickers , Jazz Pensacola

 

 

Re: recent post about trying to gentrify New Orleans' famed Bourbon
Street-additional comment.

 

I got a couple of comments related to similar efforts about San Francisco's
tenderloin district ( I have no first-hand experience here)

 

But, I lived in New Orleans a couple of years in the early 1960s while doing
Internal Medicine residency on Tulane Service at Charity Hospital.  I
rotated through the infectious disease service and saw ambulatory
tuberculosis patients.  At that time, there were a number of effective
anti-TB drugs and, if patients followed recommendations, these lung lesions
would clear in a year or so.  Those ones which did not clear completely
might be candidates for surgical resection of the affected area.

 

Of course, if a patient had positive sputum test for TB-therefore actively
infectious-they'd be hospitalized on the TB ward until they tested "sputum
negative."

 

So, over that period of time, I got to know a number of patients with
non-infectious TB.

 

The patients who didn't clear up were likely the ones who continued to smoke
and drink alcohol,  some to excess.

 

When we had visitors, this was about the only time my wife and I visited
Bourbon Street-and we had lots of visitors to New Orleans.  We'd take the
visitors on a stroll down Bourbon Street and I might see several of my TB
patients-as hawkers and door openers for the strip joints.  Usually, they'd
be smoking, too.  It was understandable why their TB lung lesions didn't
clear as hoped and expected!

 

Good luck, New Orleans!

 

 
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