The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1916-06-17
SECOND MEETING At BETHEL,
PEOPLE BECOMING MUCH IN.
TERESTED IN SANITARY
PRECAUTIONS.
DIR. Howell Illustrates Talk on Raw
ages Of Hook Worm with Stercop:i-
con Slide-Rev. Haynsworth and
Farmers OF Community Indorse
Work and Promise Their Aid.

Work and Promise Their Aid.
The second public health meeting of
Bethel school district, Sumter coan-
ty, under the unit health survey put
on by DIR. j. T. Howell, director of ru-
raj sanitation of the State Board of
Health, was held at Bethel school last
Monday evening.
DR.. Howell was assisted by DR..
Brouhn Of the State health board,
and Secretary Reardon. Of the Sum-
ter Chamber OF Commerce.
Rev. William Haynsworth, pastor
of Bethel Baptist church presided,
and after opening the meeting with
prayer, he delivered a short talk emf
phasizing the importance of tt
work being done by DR.. Howell a.
his assistants. 2
Rev. Haynsworth took occasion o
| stress the importance OF commJ n
interest and organization, and y
that the State board of health
fering very valuable and exec 4
opportunity to the people Of hn. c.
ticn, one that they would perhaps
never again be able to secure, and he
trusted that the people will take ad-
vantage Of the scientific educational
features thereof.
DR.. Howell delivered an unusually
Interesting. instructive, and compre-
hensive illustrated lecture regarding
the hook worm disease SO prevalent in
the Southern rural districts. He IL
lustrated his remarks with numbers
of greatly enlarged microscopic pic
lures Of the hook worm In every
phase of it's life history, and showing
the effects also by photographs Of the
manner in which this parasite enters
the system and finally works it's way
to the abdominal lining, and sucks
the life blood OF its victim.
His pictures and lecture were startl-
ingly conyincing. in, the extreme, but
bcrnes soats6y teaaa ssisplgss
living victims of the hook worm, by
pictures of the insects in their va
rious stages of growth, and in many
other ways he awakened the interest
Of his hearers.
| He showed wherein the hook worm
has its greatest opportunity of doing
its deadly work in the rural sections,
and pointed out the tremendous eco
nomic loss by depreciation Of physical
and mental efficiency from the hook
worm ravages.
| DR.. Howell is one Of the plainest,
yet. convincing and fluent takers
Imaginable. He eliminates entirely
every complicated. mystifying, tech
nical phrase Of therapeutical form so
common to many physicians, and his
audiences are able to follow intelli-
gently every line of thought intro
duced by the speaker.
Rev. Haynsworth called upon Sec
retary Reardon for a. short talk on
how to best organize a community for
efficient cooperation and direct bene-
fetal results.
| Mr.. Reardon told how since the first
meeting at Bethel. a week prior to last
Monday night. the city council and
board Of health of Sumter had put
into effect in Sumter sanitary laws en-
bracing every feature Of DR.. Howelps
recommendations for Bethel school
district, and of practically the same
nature so far as fly proof sanitary
closets are concerned, and how the
chamber of Commerce, Civic League,
city council, and board of health, rep
resenting nearly twelve thousand
citizens of Sumter work harmoniously
and splendidly together for the uplift
of Sumter's citizenship.
He said that the Sumter Chamber
of Commerce is intensely interested in
the unit health survey in the rural dis.
tricts, and that he is following DR..
Howell with every available source
OF cooperation as the representative cf
the business interests Of Sumter.
Dr. Howell is able to report that a
number Of the land owners Of Bethel
school district have agreed to begin
building fly proof sanitary closets,
not only for their families, but for
their negro tenants, and to fight the
flies, mosquitoes, and hook worm.
Mr.. j. M. Kolb, one Of the most pro-
gressive and public spirited farmers of
Bethel district endorsed DR.. Howelrs
work and promised to do just what
the expert sanitarian suggested, and
also to give his infleunce among his
friends and neighbors, who were not
at the meeting to attain the same ends