The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1910-01-25

but it rebounds to the GOOD of tbe
city, which a good health record
gives, and contains information eager
ly sought after by those who desire
home among US.
For several years we have been
able TO show record which has NOT
only been encouraging to our SAM
tary authorities, but has enabled our
city to become a successful rival to
other cities for fiattering mortuary
records, and might not this fact be
an asset in our hands for promoting
the growth and Development of this
city?
For the entire year the city has
been practically free from contagious
and infectious diseases. At the open
ing of the public schools this fall three
cases of diptheria developed among
children attending school, creating
three distinct points of infection in
the city, but all of which were prompt
ly taken in charge by the health au-
thorities Of the city, and this disease
confined to the homes where located.
and no infection followed and no
deaths resulted.
During the year ending December
31st there has been issued from my
office burial permits for one hundred
and eighty (1S0) persons; of this num-
Der seventy five (75) were whites. and
one hundred and five (05) were COL
cred.
In the discharge Of the duties of my
Office as city physician, have mac
two hundred and seventy-oue (271
visits to the INDECENT poor of the
city, and have written one hundred
and forty six Q46) prescriptions for
charity at my office.
During the summer months, prion to
the opening Of the schools, | gave free
vaccination to two hundred and ten
(210) children. | have als0 attended
every charity patient admitted to tire
city hospital at my request, and have
visited the city barracks whenever
called upon to do so.
AS health officer, | have been called
upon frequently to visit points of sup
posed infection; and have personally
attended the disinfection of every
house where any contagious or fnfec-
tious disease has existed.
| desire to embrace in this report
some reference to two new diseases
which have come into general atten-
ton throughout the country within the
past year, to-wit: Pellagra, and look
worm disease. 1t is believed by some
of our local physicians, with whom
the health officer has conferred, that
10th of these diseases have existed in
our city to Il limited degree, and by
reason f their recent discovery, have
ton this in order to make record *
the fact rather than for statistical I'M
portance A convention of doctors for
the discussion of these two diseases
will be held in Atlanta, Ga, about
the middle OF January, and | earnestly
recommend that our city have renre-
sentative at that convention, to take
advantage of the discussion of these
two diseases by those who are famiEfas'
with them.
In concluding this report | wish to
extend to His Honor the mayor, and
the council, and, especially the hospi-
tai committee my thanks for their CO.
operation and courtesy to me in the
discharge of the duties of my office.
I wish also to commend the physi-
clans of this city for their promptness
in reporting contagious and infectious
diseases when occurring in their prtec-
tice.
Respectfully submitted,
j. A. Butts, M. D.,
City Physician and Health Officer,