Columbia University School of Public Health - Yearbook (New York, NY)

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hfkcu The Gcrruczelat Down the street, this long street, he come Fiddling that bone violin, crackling His white boneprints into Harlem. settling them. Nobody hides calcium in Harlem, nor Music which whitens the air, 'til You could taste the failure. This musician come a long way, fiddling Eight thousand miles, his sound of five hundred years. Only he won't find no stop here, Baby! 'Cept one or two, or what he drags ot them Scared musicians Crackling down the street. This long street of Bali, Peru. and places maybe Blacker than our African urban. Where hell is a coal that can't burn. Them actors! They clown twenty feet high, by the look of them Hands, white enough to fasten in sun For an instant Of parchment grins sweet past this window. And that Patience. the one sitting and Knowing better than you and me, about The masked lady on the floor Dancing five hundred years With a flea That come from a rat. The lady on the floor, a beauty under that mask, And breasted more as bravery, the way she lies, So's no man would think she died as Others who keep love in their chests. l lean watching that fiddler in the street, bone crackling From someplace we go all the time, If only by knowing Of the rats and fleas we got too, in our walls. He plays white. I can't see myself no more In that fiddling! Who'll I talk to about this? About the chalk traveler and the music I swear l heard once in a closed-out band, That sent me home to tell the woman. Lord knows Who don't ever hear a-tal what l say Less'n l scream a white sound Colder to her than the chalk traveler Who crackles Bali songs, Peru songs Along our streets of Harlem springtime As a winter clown playing Yellow pikes and swords upon this window. With bonesteps crackling the way paper do In a Department store Easter, lVly woman lying here, she dont measure this street Long street, with her fix the way they do When they's hurricanes outside. or plagues, And she got a door. This street goes a long way! l tell her. It goes Eight thousand miles ago and tive hundred years around lt got Bali songs, Peru songs. Only the woman don't know, 'Cept when she hears the street While lying still, listening to Yesterdays footsteps where Her children play. - HENRY BIRNE

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A MESSAGE TO OUR CLASS: THE ERADICATION CONCEPT IN COMMUNICABLE DISEASE PREVENTION Fred L. Soper, M. D., Dr. P. H. 1 Special Consultant,. Office of International Health, U. S. Public Health Service. In the early flush of bacteriology in the 19th century, workers glibly talked of disease eradication. In 1884, the Congress created the Bureau of Animal Industry to eradicate contagious bovine pleuropneumonia and to prevent the export of animal diseases from the United States. Pleuropneumonia was eradicated, but the problem of permanent exclusion, or prevention of reinfection, remained. The first attempt to eradicate a disease, as contrasted with efforts to eliminate from an individual country, was the Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored effort to eradicate yellow fever from the world. This effort failed because of the previously unrecognized jungle yellow fever from which reinfection can come. In recent decades much more has been done on the national elimina- tion of animal diseases than of human infections. The contrary is true in the international field, international health organizations are coordinating programs for the eradication of the Aedes aegypti mosquito, the urban vector of yellow fever, of malaria, of small- pox, and of yaws. The greater ease of excluding animal than human diseases is probably responsible for this difference in development. The present is a period when those working in animal disease pre- vention are recognizing the necessity of international collabora- tion and coordination of efforts. The United States participated financially and administratively in the elimination of foot-and-mouth disease from Mexico some years ago while the disease was far from its own frontier, in 1966, the Congress of the United States author- ized cooperation in the elimination of the screwworm from northern Mexico in order to establish a more economically defensible frontier between infested and clean areas at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. But the regional and global animal disease eradication efforts are logging behind such efforts related to human diseases. At the same time, public health workers in the United States are searching for administrative means of coordinating disease prevention activities of cities, states, and counties in national elimination programs. The professional health administrator, working in the prevention of both human and animal diseases, is in the coming years going to become more and more involved in the development of national elimination programs and the coordination of these in true regional and global eradication efforts. II-Ionorary Member, American Veterinary Medical Association. Washington, D. C. 7 April 1967