Doomed But Happv
Slow Death Cripples Four Boys
MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY victims study hard. Harold Johnston
is seated on the floor while his brothers Glen. Jack and J. E.
are shown left to right in "homebound" school.
BY HARRY W. BALL
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PRINCETON, W. Va. — The
medical world knows muscular
dystrophy as a rare disease that
is fatal over a course of years. Mr.
^Jjjnd Mrs. Arlie Johnston can w'ell
doubt its rarity; it has stricken
four of their six children and the
doctor says a fifth will be affect
ed.
Yet they are a happy lot and
study hard at the “homebound”
school which Miss Edith Tuggle,
Mercer County’s itinerant teacher,
conducts for them at the Johnston
home in Princeton.
Eldest of the Johnston boys is
Jack. Now 13, he has resumed his
classes after a three-year lapse.
He’s in the fourth grade.
^ Next in line is J. E. Johnson, 10,
who had to quit the third grade in
the fall of 1944 when it became
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impossible for him to board the
school bus.
Eight-year-old Glen is unable
to lift big books and slowly is los
ing the ability to walk without
! falling.
Harold, aged 6, most active of
the four boys, can’t go to public
school because he continually
loses balance and there’s nobody
to help him on and off the bus.
The fifth son is little two-year
! old Billy Johnston and Dr. G. L.
; Todd of the Memorial Hospital
staff says he, too, will be afflicted
i at about the age of 6.
, A little blonde girl named Joan,
TERRITORIAL NURSE AND
PARENTS HAVE MEETING
Miss E. Bock, nurse of the In
dian Affairs states that a goodly
number of the parents, whose
children attend the native, school
the teachers and nurses held a
meeting on Monday evening to
talk over ways in which the chil
dren can be benefited.
Tuberculin patch testing was
discussed. Also of interest was the
fact that the 23 school children,
who were or had been tuberculo
sis contacts, showed no active pul
monary tuberculosis when x-rayed
last month. Eight of these children
attend the Territorial school.
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4 years old, completes the family.
Dr. Todd predicts she will escape
the dread malady.
When Dr. Todd first began
treating the Johnston children, he
sent two of them to the University
of Virginia hospital at Charlottes
ville. There the diagnosis was con
firmed.
Dr. Todd said the four boys now
affected will become weaker as
the dystrophy hardens their mus
cles and death probably will come
in their late ’teens.
Muscular dystrophy is nearly
always of hereditary origin. Moth
ers are supposed to transmit it
more often than fathers. The dis
ease when present is likely to oc
cur in several members of the
same family. The disease has been
traced through several generations
of one family.
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