Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-09-15
CREENEsV|LLE COUNTY RID
OF TYPHOID AND MALARIA
''eaith Campaign in Vicinity of
Emporin Proves Complete
Success.
CRUSADE LASTED TEN MONTHS
Conducted Jointly by international
Health Commission and State
Board Under Direction of DIR. T..
Iatanc Flanagan.

AT the end of II ten mouths campaign
FOR better health conditions in the town
or Emporia and C;rccneSville County
conducted Jointly 10y the international
Health Commission and the State
Board of Health, under the direction uf
DR.. t.. l.atanc Flanagan. these COM
munitieS. which heretofore have been
| recognized as hotbeds Of malaria and
typhoid fever, have been transformed
into as hcalthful spots as there are i'm
Virginia.
One Empuria physician repeats that
during the mouth Of June last year. II.
visited seventy cases of n;la:ia ana
that this year ac had only seven There
has been in the town only one case of
typhoid fever during the summer
months. and this was of uuestiounbIc
origin The largest practitioner i'm
Emporia states thu chillS and fever
this season have been reduced 20 nor
cent. Drug stores report that there has
been - considerable reduction in m.
sale Of Guiniur.
FLA NSGAN EupI.OlED
ny TOWN OF EMPoKIA
fhcs" are some Of the facts DR.
Flanagan Will embody in his report to
the Town Council Of I:mporia Dr.
fian:t.an. WHO lie gan last November
health survey in the rural sections OF
l he country, radiatins from En-
poiia. the county seat. was employed
as Il l. ''th expert by the town for tho
period I'm M1y II. to September To-
His ., was TO reduce the NOR.
bidity in malaria and typhoid fever
which. lay aicians IN that section said.
constituted from - To 30 per cent OF
the illness in the community. DR.
Flanagan at once started a crusade
against the anophelene mosquito.
which is the t"ansmittcr OF malaria
from one person to another. and against
insani,arN conditions. which are the
harb"riu- places for typhoid germs
tudcr his direction. nearly ten miles
Of land MAS ditchcd to break up the
breeding places Of the malaria carry
iu- mosquit. seven acres of under
wcrc cut down ana 100 gallons OF
crude oil. used to kill tho w,rigslers
that turn TO mosquitoes. Thus. the in
sanitary conditions, threatening ty-
ph"td outbreak. were corrected The
area included four square miles
HEALTH SURVEY INCLUDED
OItWoRM INVESTu.ATION
pr l'lamagau's first work was in The
COUNTY. The health survey which he
Conducted consisted OF examinations
for hookworm infection. location OF
houses where there had been typhoid
foyer, tuberculosis and malarial fever
He also gave lcci Ircs on subjects ,>c
lHtin- u the punIic health. and out.
lined methods for the prevention OF
communicable diseases. This work
lasted for period OF six months
VI the ond OF that time. there Was
held in E.mporia Il unique health re-
NiNal. ut which experts from the State
Board of Health, the United States
Pubic Health Service, and state Board
of Health OF North Carolina smoke
hr"inc these meetings, "a resolution
was passed calling upon the Town
council OF Emporia 10 employ q health
eNrcrt 10 conduct campaign against
HrcNcntable diseases This was done,
and l)i. flanH gan was selected
The campaign in Eimporia is unique
~ that ii is the first OF the Kind con
Quoted in the state. III Flana gan Is
the district director Of the State Boar,
Of Health. ana has hecn working in
roriunrti"m With the state BOARD Of
it"a!ih and til" International Health
Commission Of the Ito ,kcfcller founda-
ton for nearly three years.