A claim that an outbreak
of scabies at Lions Gate

Hospital is at epidemic
proportions .is  over-
dramatized, according to the
hospital’s medical coor-
dinator Dr. Jim Corbett.

A staff member who did
not wish to be identified,
called the NEWS over
concerns that an outbreak of
scabies in the hospital was
being hushed up by the
-administration.

She claimed that lice
lotion was being handed out
to patients and staff on the
second and third floors of
the extended care unit “like

W.Van

West Vancouver's garbage
recycling program — less
than halfway through its six-
month trial period — ts off to
a flying start, according to
municipal officials.

After only 10 weeks a total
of 53.03 tons of recyclable
material has been coilected
from the 1,300 test homes in
the Ambleside and Chart-
well neighborhoods.

This represents 22 per
cent of the waste from the
area which normally has to
be trucked to the disposal
depot in North Vancouver.

The figures were released
last week by Enertask
Consultants on behalf of the
Ministry of the Environment
which ts sharmg the cost of
the expenmental program
with West Vancouver

Under the tnal
which started May
will continue until
November, the municipality
supphed. on joan, plastic
pauls for metal and glass

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candy”. Visitors have been
leaving the hospital with
scabies, she said, as well as
people being admitted for
operations, and that some
staff had alréady been
treated for their second case
of scabies.

The woman was con-
cerned that neither staff,
visitors or people being
admitted to the hospital for
Operations were being
warned of the outbreak.

However, Dr. Corbett
answered: “We are not
playing it down but we are
not broadcasting it.”

Newspapers are bundled
and tied.

New Life Recycling
Company of North Van-
couver collects and markets
the material. It is not paid
for the collection service.

Alderman Don Lanskail,
the driving force behind the
program, said he is ex-
tremely pleased with the first
early results.

“We realize it takes time
for residents to establish a
routine for separating
recyclable material, but they
are doing it,” Lanskail said.

“There has been a ternfic
response by the majyonty of
homeowners in the test area
and we appreciate it. With
costs of $31 50 per ton to
move our waste to the North
Vancouver dump. the
diversion of S53 tons of
recyclable material in’ 10
weeks in this small area is
dramatic © he added.

The ultimate
Lanskail

targel.

explained. as) well

He says of the report to

the NEWS of the
“epidemic”: “Somebody
must have been over

dramatizing it a little bit. I
think it more of a fear than
an actuality.”

He comments on the
situation: “This is a problem
in any institution. We admit
more than 16,000 patients
every year and it is un-
derstandable one or two of
them may bring scabies with
them.’

Treatment is by lotion,
which quickly eradicates the
lice. “The treatment, for-
tunately, is fast, safe and

over this figure.

“We need a higher ton-
nage of newspapers,” he
stressed.

“Please take a moment to
slip each day's papers into a
supermarket’s plastic bag,
wire the handles together on
collection day and put our
recycling project over the
top.”’ Lanskail asked
residents in the test area.

The ministry's consultants
used data from the entire
test area. Among other
statistics they found:

An average of 554 homes

(43 per cent of the total) put
out maternal for collection
on every pick-up day:
More than 80 per cent of the
households have taken part
in the program, putting out
material approximately
every second week on the
average.

Newspapers topped the list
with 33.42 tons, followed by
glass containers (15 36 toms)
and metal(4 26 tons )

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MEDICAL CHIEF RULES OUT WESTATION CLAIM

sure so minor outbreaks
such as this one can be
brought’ quickly under
control, says Corbett.

The outbreak had been
contained to the seventh
floor of the west wing and
the second floor of extended
care, he says, adding that it
had been = questionable
whether there was a problem
on the third floor of ex-
tended care.

“I am not trying to ar-
tificially play it down,” he
adds. “But I don’t think we
will serve the hospital very
well making it headlines.”

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ets off to a flying start

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