"Leukemia Kills Second Child In Jones County Family"
Laurel Leader Call Aug 8, 1950 provided by Louise Flowers.
Laurel, Aug 8 Billy Anderson is dead. The nine year old victim of dread leukemia died at Boone Clinic here Tuesday morning at 9:30, two hours and a half after being brought there from his rural home by Mr. and Mrs. Glaze Anderson, his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, grief stricken, stood beside the death bed as their little son died.
They had but a little more than a year ago watched a five year old golden-haired daughter, Betty Joyce, die, a victim of the same dread malady.
The plight of the Anderson children was one of a few cases in medical history where two members of the same family became leukemia victims, and attracted nation-wide attention.
It was first discovered that the blood streams of Betty Joyce and Billy were riddled with the fearful malady in May of 1949.
They were first treated at a New Orleans hospital and doctors there gave both the boy, then eight, and the five year old girl but three weeks to live.
Betty Joyce died on June 18, 1949, just a few days beyond her medical allotted span of life. From then on Billy faced the grim fight against the disease alone.
In January of this year he was admitted to New York city's Bellevue Hospital where he was treated with the newly discovered wonder drug, adreno-cortical tropical hormone (ACTH).
The drug, derived from the pituitary glands of slaughtered pigs, was believed in some circles to be a cure for the always fatal disease. The medical world, however, made no such claim, but held hopes that with ACTH leukemia could be conquered.
Billy remained under treatment at New York for six weeks. During that time a Leader Call sponsored and promoted campaign raised more than $3,000 to defray his hospital and other expenses.
During the fund raising campaign cash daily poured into the Leader Call offices from throughout Jones and surrounding counties.
Greatly improved, Billy, with his parents, returned home on March 23.
His improved condition continued but he remained under treatment at his rural home, 15 miles west of this city, until May 25 when he was admitted to a Laurel hospital following a mild relapse. He was discharged four days later.
At the end of the third week of his New York treatment his ACTH was supplanted by Cortisone, a synthetically manufactured drug having the same effect.
Since then Billy had been treated with Cortisone.
The young victim suffered a second relapse on July 29 and was admitted to the Boone Clinic. Homesick but greatly improved he was again discharged last Saturday.
Monday night another mild relapse occurred, but it was not then believed that his situation was critical.
At 7 o'clock Tuesday morning his parents returned with their young son to Boone Clinic.
Billy was feverish, doctors said, and soon became semi-conscious.
Two and a half hours after being admitted, the brave fight of Billy Anderson was ended.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of one other child, a little girl, Rose Marie, two and a half years old. Doctors say she is brimming with health and that she is not infected with the fatal malady that took the lives of her brother and sister.
Funeral services for Billy will be conducted at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from Hebron Baptist Church, where he often attended both church and Sunday School.
Conducting the rites will be the church pastor, the Rev. Tommy Fant, assisted by the Rev. F. W. Valentine.
Interment will be in the Hebron cemetery and six Boy Scouts will carry the coffin from the church to the cemetery, Billy was a cub scout.
His grave is beside that of his little sister, Betty Joyce.
Laurel Leader Call Aug 8, 1950 provided by Louise Flowers.
Laurel, Aug 8 Billy Anderson is dead. The nine year old victim of dread leukemia died at Boone Clinic here Tuesday morning at 9:30, two hours and a half after being brought there from his rural home by Mr. and Mrs. Glaze Anderson, his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, grief stricken, stood beside the death bed as their little son died.
They had but a little more than a year ago watched a five year old golden-haired daughter, Betty Joyce, die, a victim of the same dread malady.
The plight of the Anderson children was one of a few cases in medical history where two members of the same family became leukemia victims, and attracted nation-wide attention.
It was first discovered that the blood streams of Betty Joyce and Billy were riddled with the fearful malady in May of 1949.
They were first treated at a New Orleans hospital and doctors there gave both the boy, then eight, and the five year old girl but three weeks to live.
Betty Joyce died on June 18, 1949, just a few days beyond her medical allotted span of life. From then on Billy faced the grim fight against the disease alone.
In January of this year he was admitted to New York city's Bellevue Hospital where he was treated with the newly discovered wonder drug, adreno-cortical tropical hormone (ACTH).
The drug, derived from the pituitary glands of slaughtered pigs, was believed in some circles to be a cure for the always fatal disease. The medical world, however, made no such claim, but held hopes that with ACTH leukemia could be conquered.
Billy remained under treatment at New York for six weeks. During that time a Leader Call sponsored and promoted campaign raised more than $3,000 to defray his hospital and other expenses.
During the fund raising campaign cash daily poured into the Leader Call offices from throughout Jones and surrounding counties.
Greatly improved, Billy, with his parents, returned home on March 23.
His improved condition continued but he remained under treatment at his rural home, 15 miles west of this city, until May 25 when he was admitted to a Laurel hospital following a mild relapse. He was discharged four days later.
At the end of the third week of his New York treatment his ACTH was supplanted by Cortisone, a synthetically manufactured drug having the same effect.
Since then Billy had been treated with Cortisone.
The young victim suffered a second relapse on July 29 and was admitted to the Boone Clinic. Homesick but greatly improved he was again discharged last Saturday.
Monday night another mild relapse occurred, but it was not then believed that his situation was critical.
At 7 o'clock Tuesday morning his parents returned with their young son to Boone Clinic.
Billy was feverish, doctors said, and soon became semi-conscious.
Two and a half hours after being admitted, the brave fight of Billy Anderson was ended.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of one other child, a little girl, Rose Marie, two and a half years old. Doctors say she is brimming with health and that she is not infected with the fatal malady that took the lives of her brother and sister.
Funeral services for Billy will be conducted at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from Hebron Baptist Church, where he often attended both church and Sunday School.
Conducting the rites will be the church pastor, the Rev. Tommy Fant, assisted by the Rev. F. W. Valentine.
Interment will be in the Hebron cemetery and six Boy Scouts will carry the coffin from the church to the cemetery, Billy was a cub scout.
His grave is beside that of his little sister, Betty Joyce.
"Leukemia Kills Second Child In Jones County Family"
Laurel Leader Call Aug 8, 1950 provided by Louise Flowers.
Laurel, Aug 8 Billy Anderson is dead. The nine year old victim of dread leukemia died at Boone Clinic here Tuesday morning at 9:30, two hours and a half after being brought there from his rural home by Mr. and Mrs. Glaze Anderson, his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, grief stricken, stood beside the death bed as their little son died.
They had but a little more than a year ago watched a five year old golden-haired daughter, Betty Joyce, die, a victim of the same dread malady.
The plight of the Anderson children was one of a few cases in medical history where two members of the same family became leukemia victims, and attracted nation-wide attention.
It was first discovered that the blood streams of Betty Joyce and Billy were riddled with the fearful malady in May of 1949.
They were first treated at a New Orleans hospital and doctors there gave both the boy, then eight, and the five year old girl but three weeks to live.
Betty Joyce died on June 18, 1949, just a few days beyond her medical allotted span of life. From then on Billy faced the grim fight against the disease alone.
In January of this year he was admitted to New York city's Bellevue Hospital where he was treated with the newly discovered wonder drug, adreno-cortical tropical hormone (ACTH).
The drug, derived from the pituitary glands of slaughtered pigs, was believed in some circles to be a cure for the always fatal disease. The medical world, however, made no such claim, but held hopes that with ACTH leukemia could be conquered.
Billy remained under treatment at New York for six weeks. During that time a Leader Call sponsored and promoted campaign raised more than $3,000 to defray his hospital and other expenses.
During the fund raising campaign cash daily poured into the Leader Call offices from throughout Jones and surrounding counties.
Greatly improved, Billy, with his parents, returned home on March 23.
His improved condition continued but he remained under treatment at his rural home, 15 miles west of this city, until May 25 when he was admitted to a Laurel hospital following a mild relapse. He was discharged four days later.
At the end of the third week of his New York treatment his ACTH was supplanted by Cortisone, a synthetically manufactured drug having the same effect.
Since then Billy had been treated with Cortisone.
The young victim suffered a second relapse on July 29 and was admitted to the Boone Clinic. Homesick but greatly improved he was again discharged last Saturday.
Monday night another mild relapse occurred, but it was not then believed that his situation was critical.
At 7 o'clock Tuesday morning his parents returned with their young son to Boone Clinic.
Billy was feverish, doctors said, and soon became semi-conscious.
Two and a half hours after being admitted, the brave fight of Billy Anderson was ended.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of one other child, a little girl, Rose Marie, two and a half years old. Doctors say she is brimming with health and that she is not infected with the fatal malady that took the lives of her brother and sister.
Funeral services for Billy will be conducted at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from Hebron Baptist Church, where he often attended both church and Sunday School.
Conducting the rites will be the church pastor, the Rev. Tommy Fant, assisted by the Rev. F. W. Valentine.
Interment will be in the Hebron cemetery and six Boy Scouts will carry the coffin from the church to the cemetery, Billy was a cub scout.
His grave is beside that of his little sister, Betty Joyce.
Laurel Leader Call Aug 8, 1950 provided by Louise Flowers.
Laurel, Aug 8 Billy Anderson is dead. The nine year old victim of dread leukemia died at Boone Clinic here Tuesday morning at 9:30, two hours and a half after being brought there from his rural home by Mr. and Mrs. Glaze Anderson, his parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson, grief stricken, stood beside the death bed as their little son died.
They had but a little more than a year ago watched a five year old golden-haired daughter, Betty Joyce, die, a victim of the same dread malady.
The plight of the Anderson children was one of a few cases in medical history where two members of the same family became leukemia victims, and attracted nation-wide attention.
It was first discovered that the blood streams of Betty Joyce and Billy were riddled with the fearful malady in May of 1949.
They were first treated at a New Orleans hospital and doctors there gave both the boy, then eight, and the five year old girl but three weeks to live.
Betty Joyce died on June 18, 1949, just a few days beyond her medical allotted span of life. From then on Billy faced the grim fight against the disease alone.
In January of this year he was admitted to New York city's Bellevue Hospital where he was treated with the newly discovered wonder drug, adreno-cortical tropical hormone (ACTH).
The drug, derived from the pituitary glands of slaughtered pigs, was believed in some circles to be a cure for the always fatal disease. The medical world, however, made no such claim, but held hopes that with ACTH leukemia could be conquered.
Billy remained under treatment at New York for six weeks. During that time a Leader Call sponsored and promoted campaign raised more than $3,000 to defray his hospital and other expenses.
During the fund raising campaign cash daily poured into the Leader Call offices from throughout Jones and surrounding counties.
Greatly improved, Billy, with his parents, returned home on March 23.
His improved condition continued but he remained under treatment at his rural home, 15 miles west of this city, until May 25 when he was admitted to a Laurel hospital following a mild relapse. He was discharged four days later.
At the end of the third week of his New York treatment his ACTH was supplanted by Cortisone, a synthetically manufactured drug having the same effect.
Since then Billy had been treated with Cortisone.
The young victim suffered a second relapse on July 29 and was admitted to the Boone Clinic. Homesick but greatly improved he was again discharged last Saturday.
Monday night another mild relapse occurred, but it was not then believed that his situation was critical.
At 7 o'clock Tuesday morning his parents returned with their young son to Boone Clinic.
Billy was feverish, doctors said, and soon became semi-conscious.
Two and a half hours after being admitted, the brave fight of Billy Anderson was ended.
Mr. and Mrs. Anderson are the parents of one other child, a little girl, Rose Marie, two and a half years old. Doctors say she is brimming with health and that she is not infected with the fatal malady that took the lives of her brother and sister.
Funeral services for Billy will be conducted at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon from Hebron Baptist Church, where he often attended both church and Sunday School.
Conducting the rites will be the church pastor, the Rev. Tommy Fant, assisted by the Rev. F. W. Valentine.
Interment will be in the Hebron cemetery and six Boy Scouts will carry the coffin from the church to the cemetery, Billy was a cub scout.
His grave is beside that of his little sister, Betty Joyce.
