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y have helpedo«:
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ions are beingca:
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oublic buildings.
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pent $15,000 upi;:
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s passed in 1990.
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replaced wft
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thing we've done
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in wheelchairs ca:;
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officer for thf
■rict of the Texas
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wheelchair ramp 5
nd sidewalks wi®
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city limits in the
six months,
trough Bryan-Coi
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, Briarcrest Drive
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>llege Avenue
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not only to thos i
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nt on a cane.
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standards to ref
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Thursday • September 8, 1994
STATE
Pneumonia plagues
Houston inmates
BOSTON (AP) — Overcrowd
ing and poor ventilation helped
spread a deadly pneumonia out
break at a Houston jail, where
prisoners averaged less than 6-
by-6 feet of living space, accord
ing to a federal report.
The outbreak, which occurred
in 1989, was the first of what
has turned out to be a series of
episodes of pneumococcal infec
tion in crowded places.
“We think this was a sentinel
in the reemergence of that dis
ease,” said Dr. Robert F.
Breiman of the U.S. Centers for
Disease control and Prevention
in Atlanta.
Breiman’s team investigated
the Houston outbreak, which
struck 46 inmates, killing two,
in a one-month period. The bac
teria, called streptococcus pneu
monia, can cause pneumonia or
a more serious blood infection.
At the time, the 13-story Har
ris County Jail was the third
largest in the United States. It
was designed for 3,500 inmates
but housed 6,700. Half slept on
mattresses on the floor.
Since then, the county has
opened a new facility, and the
jail where the outbreak occurred
now has 3,746 prisoners.
Maj. Mike Quinn of the sher
iffs office said a new ventilation
system has been designed but
not yet installed.
“The overcrowding did not the
cause the disease. It was a vehi
cle for its spread,” said Quinn.
The CDC report on the out
break was published in Thurs
day’s issue of the New England
Journal of Medicine.
The report blamed the out
break on overcrowding, poor air
circulation and susceptibility of
inmates to catching the bacteria,
because of AIDS infections, drug
abuse and other health problems.
“My gut feeling is the thing
that played the greatest role was
overcrowding, but it was a combi
nation of all three,” said Breiman.
The prisoners had an average
living area of 34 square feet.
Current engineering standards
suggest that inmates have at
least 50 square feet.
The CDC found that nobody
in the Houston jail with more
than 80 square feet of living
space got sick.
The investigation also found
that,the jail ventilation system
delivered six square feet of out
side air per person each minute,
while the recommend level is 20.
square feet.
Since the Houston outbreak,
similar clusters of pneumococcal
infection have been seen at mili
tary bases, hospitals, day care
centers and nursing homes.
Breiman said this is proba
bly because there are more peo
ple with weak defenses against
disease, in part because of
AIDS infections, drug abuse
and medical treatments that
weaken immunity, such as
transplant medicines.
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former chairman of the base-
closings commission said
Wednesday that he has ruled
out being a paid consultant for
any community seeking to de
fend its military installations
against shutdown.
Jim Courter, who headed
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Force Base, which was re
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year’s list.
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merce have geared up for a
nearly $500,000 lobbying effort
to protect Kelly.
Kelly, which is home to the
San Antonio Air Logistics Cen
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