The farmer and mechanic., 1915-09-21

county health officer plan of work
thlS section is familiar, and | shall |
ecohofnlZe Tune by limiting my discus |
sion to the less we'll known anti sys-
tenn plan of county health work.
ne unit system of county health |
"oIh assumes, first the divisibility Of |
county health problems into fairly in
| dependent units Of health work. sec
| ono, that county may get better |
WORK Tor less money by paving the
| state Board of Health just what il
| costs TO complete a certain piece IF
| work than by attempting to do the
| wor< itself. Several illustrations will
make the practicability of the unit
system clear and perhaps better ap-
| preciated.
The North Carolina Way.
Inc North Carolina State Board of
| Health proposed to and contracted
with ten counties for a county approI
| prlatIon of $500 to administer free
| typhoid immunization to those citi-
zens of these counties who wished to
| be lmmunlzed. In the first set of FIVE
counties we gave complete treatment
TO 26,537 people; when we complete
the work in the next five counties So
QUO people in the ten counties will
nave been Vacclnated against typhoid
! fever. This is about One-eighth of
the population Of the counties treated.
In several counties about one-third OF
the population has been treated
Our principal fall and winter work
IN rural sanitation will be executing
/ contracts for the following unit Of
school work: For a county apprO-
priation of $40 for each school in
: the county the State Board of Health
agrees to arrange through the county
t school authorities and with the teach
ers a program of consecutive health
days for each school in the county,
D Health day will be carried out in each
: school as follows: Two weeks before
\ health day the principal Of the school
e receives from the State Board OF
4 Health a batch OF hand-bills announc-
o ing date and program for health day
I The hand-bllls also carry an invita-
n ton to the patrons of the school tC
q attend the exercises. The teacher
: distributes these notices through the
e children to the school community. The
e representative Of the State Board O
II Health arrives at the school at 10 a
e m. on health day. He makes a fif
teen minute talk to the children ant
Is visitors on the Importance of a knowl
n edge of the laws of health. He the.
it makes a medical inspection of tn
70 pupils and gives each defective child
N card to its parents, notifying the pa
le rents of the nature of the defect AM
n urging the parents to see the inspect O
lg after the evening exercises. The in
spector mails a report of the inspec
n ton to the State Board of Health
t, which. through system Of followu
c. letters, keeps in touch with the pa
53 rents of the defective children unit
I'd they are treated. The inspector the
e. questions the children after the man
r ner of the Old-time spelling match o
t. a health catechiSm. which has bee
Sc supplied to the school in sufficier
es number at least one month prior t
| hna 1.1U IA ri G.
a then adjourn until p. m, at Whic
u time the exercises are resumed. TIL
a evening exercises consist OF frOl
u three to four short illustrated LEI
or lures by the inspector on the mOl
fe important subjects of sanitation, il
n terSpersed with the reading of selec
,e- ed compositions by the school chi
n dren The last item on the progra
act will be the awarding of prizes. tt
first for the best knowledge of II
ed catechsm and the second for the be
get composition. The inspector will grad
is score-card manner, each school
,e- the excellence of its showing on heal
ita day. When this county unit is cor
me pleted. a county prize will be award
Der to that school giving che best CG-Ope
he alton in the work; county prize W
be awarded for the best compo:
is ton, and another prize for the be
ife knowledge Of the health catechis1
,ed The inspector can handle one rur
inc school a day. IT Will require two
lci- three daYs to handle some OF I
larger schools In the first county
ced adopt this unit there are h1ty-SeV
,tv. schools which will require a prOgra
i've Of pra ctically three months The
the spector will have very hard work
ors five DAYS in the week. like all scht
by teachers but IKE them Will nave %
ism urday and Sunday TO rest ms u
re of health work couples medlcal
yely specton OF School chlidren WIN
ion sanitary Instructors OF the eht
re- community young and old ahke-t
m. Young through the catechlsm. CO
positions and lectures, and the
by through the lectures, put most .,
ary through the hefp the chhnfeh VIII
un- mand OF their parents IN ieafHiis