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back and forth through evera
varying shades of speech
breathing life into the people
ho come and go and giving the
barroom scene a ound of
authenticity.
These poems, so compact
and finely focused, is a snapshot
of a small-corner of the Black
orld. Gilbert advises, "Before
you write/Them offlgo to
them/Teach and !Learn."
nlza ion slump
o r childr n a risk
child needs four
of the polio v c-
CHILD
WATCH
an alarming 68 percent (from 21
percent to 35 percent) am g
non-white infant .
- umps. It only takes one,
v ccination, recommended at
1 months, to immunize child
against mumps. While some
progres w made between
1 80 and 1 5 in reducing th '
percent ge of children ages one
to four not immunized again �
mumps in 19 5, 23 percent of
children of all race and 33 per­
cent of non-white children till
had not received hots.
-Mea le and rubella. As
with mump only one vaccina­
tion i ncce ry. But a of 19 5,
25 percent of II children c
one fo four, nd 34 percent
non-white childr n in the a
group, had not rec ivcd the
rubella vaccin do - an in­
crea over 19 . lmmunizati n ·
levels for mea I s are onl
lightly better - 21 P rcent of all
children and 31 percent of non­
hite children ere not vac­
cinated b 19 .
We must arrest the shockin
lump in immunization that has
made so man of our children
needlessly vulner abl to ill­
ne ses we well know how to
prevent. e need to tell our
le der in washington to invest
enough federal dollar in our
Childhood Immunization
Program to make sure every
child can get a full and mplete
series of immunizations. And
parents mu , ma ure to get
their children immunized in a
timely fashion.