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Dr. Ruth Wilson is no nearer retirement in 1975 than when she first came to Beaver County in 1923 as Director of its new TB Sanatorium, which her husband, Dr. Fred Wilson, had persuaded the state to permit the county to build. She puts in six eight-hour days a week in the same office which her father-in-law Dr. J. H. Wilson built in 1867, but this is lighter than the seven-day week schedule she followed from the time she admitted the first patient in 1923 until she discharged the last one in 1957. She maintains her charming house and garden, does her medical reading, and, since the death of her husband 17 years ago, takes off one month a year to travel. Preferring out of the way places with her camera, which she handles as a professional, she has captured scenes on every continent and in many of the far away isles of the South Pacific.