The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1917-01-23

| ca at present
Since Glynn Academy is a county
| school, we believe that the entire
county should be bonded to build this
technical department to the Academy
and at least one other community
| school BY this means the school sys-
TEN as far as building are concerned
would be complete so that the chill
| dren now in school ould have the
| becentfi of them, and at the same
time the burden of paying fossthem
| could be extended over many years
To the Grand Jury of Glynn County,
January 8, 1917. Mr. Foreman and
| Gentlemen of the Jury:
AS the Glynn county board of health
| went into operation upon the recon-
mendation Of two former grand juries,
! feel that this grand jury should
know something of the operations of
this department for the year 1916,
so / beg to make the following report:
That part of the work done outside
OF the city of Brunswick will be dis
| cussed separately.
COUNTY WORK.
! made 81 visits to the various
schools, and made over 100 lectures.
The lectures were on the prevention
of malaria, typhoid fever, hookworm
disease, and the various physical de-
fects found in school children / made
a physical examination of 264; only
20 were normal; 1914 had one or more
defects. The total number of defects
found in the 1874 children were 258.
Eyes and teeth caused SCI per cent
OF 258 defects found.
At the beginning of the fall term
of school every year we have a con-
siderable amount of sore eyes. Be
lieying that child should be in
school every day of the school year
to do good work, we adopted the plan
of giving every child found suffering
from sore eyes a free treatment In
the years of 1914 and 1915 on my
visits to the schools in the fall, found
20 and 30 per cent of the children abb
sent on account of sickness The
fall of 1916 only IL per cent have
been absent, showing the children
to be in better physical condition.
Knowing that hookworm disease and
many other intestinal diseases are
spread by the improper disposal of
human excrement. the rural schools
are being looked into at present with
the view of making tht toilets san1-
tary.
On st. Simons Island in 1915 a sewer,
was installed that would accommo-.
date all the cottages from the pier
to the new hotel, All connections
were made before cottages were oc-
cupid in 1916. At all cottages not
adjacent to sewer, toilets were made
fly-probf; 50 i believe from a sani-
tafy standpoint, st, ;sSimUns Island Is
the safest summer resort on the At
lantic coast.
AT Cypress Mills in June there was
an outbreak of typhoid fever, five
cases being reported with two deaths.
Seyenty-five persons were vaccinated
against typhoid fever The company,
acting upon my recommendation
made changes in toilets and put on.
scavenger service for removal OF
night soil.
Late in December l sent to every
householder in the county card
with the following questions:
Is your house screened?
Have you had any typhoid fever in
your family this year? Any malaria
What kind OF water have you?
What kind OF toilet?
Any deaths in family this year?
Any births in family this year?
The ANSWERS to these cards gives
me sanitary index to every home
so per cent of the cards have beer
returned. The information gathcrcG
from the return of the cards is thai
there was very little typhoid fever
in the county, except at Cypress Mills.
About 25 per cent OF the white homes
are screened, while only | per cent of
the coloreds homes are screened. An
| other interesting fact gathered was
that every preson who said his house
| was screened, said he had no ma
| laria in his family: and every one
who said he had malaria in his fam
lily. said his house was not screened
have sent out bulletins gotten out
| by the United States Government on
malaria, hookworm disease and the
care and feeding of children.
CITY WORK.
The school WORK has consisted in
visiting the schools often, seeing that
the children were protected from con
tagtous diseases. The same plan was
adopted in the city schools in regard
| to sore eyes as wa carried out in
rural ehools--that of giving free tteas
| ment TO every child found suffering
from tho disease.
| In the laboratory | have made
over 600. examinations for the dag.
nosis Of different diseases,
There were about IL rites Of
sewer laid in the city and 81 house
connections made.
AT the beginning of the year with
the assistance OF the city attorney,
new ordinances were prepared cover
ing almost all phases of sanitation
They were passed by council in July
and u4a opn -YrAt,.sIlx nuffinSr fhp1a