Infection Scare Afflicts Adams

Several Adams House residents were rushing yesterday to the Hygiene Building in a minor panic asking for gamma globulin inoculations, it was learned last night. The sudden rush for the wonder drug is due to mild contraction of hepatitis by an Adams House senior.

Dr. Andrew W. Contratto, University physician, commented, "I've never seen anything like it. We've had hepatitis cases throughout the year and there was nothing like this. It seems to be a fad."

Contratto said the University doctors would be instructed to give the drug only to students who have had very direct recent contact with the infected student "and not to people who have just said 'hello' to him."

The panic, although mainly confined to Adams House, has spread to some of the other Houses.

Students who have been refused shots of the gamma globulin were irate and complained that the doctors offered to give them a prescription and have them buy it themselves. Contratto explained that only persons who had slight contact with the ill student were being refused free inoculations. The State will not give gamma globulin for use in a scare, he said.