Jail for Tuberculosis

Alvina Page, 33, a waitress, was in the Julius Marks Sanatorium at Lexington, Ky. when a tough new state law went into effect, making it a crime to expose others to communicable tuberculosis. This did not stop Alvina Page. Though she had been under streptomycin treatment for communicable TB in both lungs, she walked out of the institution against the doctors' advice, went home to her husband and two children.

Last week, Police Judge Thomas Reedy made an example of Waitress Page, the first TB victim taken to court under the law: a $500 fine and six months' imprisonment, to be served under medical treatment at the sanatorium. If her disease is still rated as communicable at the end of the six months, she can be legally compelled to stay until doctors discharge her.

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