The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1918-01-18
LAWRENCE COUNTY
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RURAL SANITATION
OR. {. L. BISHOP TO GO BEFORE
COUNTY COURT THERE FIRST
MONDAY IN FEBRUARY.
COMPLETING NAURY work
TIVE Groups Of Three Communities
Zach Have Been Covered and Third
Project In Spring Hill Community
Now Under Way.

While engaged on the last eommun-
ity rural sanitation project in Aaurv
<yunty, DR.. q. l.. Bishop will go on
< y first Monday in February before
me county court Of Lawrence coun-
ty to ask an appropriation for begin
ming the work there. 1t Is thought
probable that the magistrates Of that
county will be as progressive in this
movement as they have been In ell
other enterprises for the improvement
Of conditions in their county.
DR.. Bishop has been directing the
rural sanitation work in Maury coun-
tt for nine months and Is now engag-
ed in the last quarter which will com
plete twelve months. The state board
Of health bears the greater part of the
expense Of the work, the county's ap-
preparation for the year being only
$500, while tho cost to the state is
more than $1,000. The county bears
only the expense of labor In con-
structing sanitary closets. etc., while
the state pays the salary of the dir
ector and all overhead expenses. In
Guiding typhoid serum. etc.
While the work in Maury county
has been done BY quarters, the appro-
prfation for each being made as it
was needed, but DR.. Bishop has stat
ed that even better results could
have been achieved II the appropria-
ton had been for year at one time.
80 that he could have definitely plan
ned his work ahead.
The work in Aaury county has been
eminently successful and beneficial.
Two groups Of three communities each
have been covered and the third pro-
ject is at Spring Hill. embracing a
community as large as either of the
other groups. In one community
there has not been 4 death from com
municable disease since the work was
completed, and In every community
where DR.. Bishop has been engaged
the health Of the population has been
noticeably improved. So distinct has
been the improvement in health
throughout the sections that have
been visited by this movement that
physicians there now engage them
selves principally in treating sickness
over which sanitary conditions have
bat little effect.
In every community where DR.
Bishop has worked the physicians
have co-operated heartily with him
He has stated that without this CO
operation from the physicians his
efforts would have availed little.
Besides giving instructions and
assisting in supervising the constr1c
ton Of sanitary closets and screening
Of houses, DR.. Bishop makes thor
ough examination of all school chill
dren and, except in cases where there
is personal object, administers anti
typhoid serum, the same treatment
that is given all soldiers of the
American army for the prevention OF
typhoid fever
Naury county has been made a
healthier, happier community since the
introduction of this sanitation move
ment and the only regrettable thing
about it is that it could not at pre-
sent be extended to every commun
ity in the county. The expectation is
that the splendid results accomplish
ed in Q few communities will act as
heaven that will permeate all other
communities and result in its being
extended through the initiative Of the
people themselves.