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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>To: Musicians & Jazzfans; Pensacola Mencken list and DJML<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>From: Norman Vickers , Jazz Pensacola<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Re: recent post about trying to gentrify New Orleans’ famed Bourbon Street—additional comment.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I got a couple of comments related to similar efforts about San Francisco’s tenderloin district ( I have no first-hand experience here)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So, over that period of time, I got to know a number of patients with non-infectious TB.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The patients who didn’t clear up were likely the ones who continued to smoke and drink alcohol, some to excess.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good luck, New Orleans!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> --End--<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>