The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1918-10-02
THE coUNTY HEALTH SURVEY
State Health Officer Hayne Discnsses:
Sanitary Campaign in Sumter Com

& about whe visit of Assistant Surgeo,
y M " Zeigfer, of the United State
Health Service to Shiloh a rev
s days ago to Investigate the cause Q
Il the widespread outbreak Of malaria
q seyer IN that section during 917 an
4 l91 8, said that he had requested tn
i Washington authorities to send Dr.
SfZeigler there because he had lots O
Il experience IN this. State in the worl
i Of surveying rural territory, and tha
4 he was glad that DR.. Zeigler hat
j made such favorable impression il
that section regarding the value o
ISeducating the people about the his
i tory, habits, and breeding places o
the Anophele or malaria spreading
mosquito, and the great value Of !;
county health survey and twelve
months campaign OF education by ex-
pertss Of the United States Publit
Health Service
/ DR. Hayne has never been able tt
understand Why a asprogressive coua.
4 " Of intelligent men and women
/ such as Sumter county is, should bs
SO Indifferent in accepJWg the~ of
tfer of FIVE thcusa.-d dollars for the
health survey and campaign of edu-
| cation, when this county is only ask
| ed to provide two thousand and dve
hundred dollars, wlIleR the State ane
| the national governments do all OF
the work. and actually furnish car.
oenters and other laborers to do the
work. while the people only have to
supply the lumber where sanitary
| dy-proof closets are erected.
The government furnishes sanitar.
engineers to survey and show peo>
pie how to orain or to oil dow places
to get rid of malaria spreading and
all other kinds of mosquitoes, fur
nishes expert sanitary inspectors te
inspect premises and show peoplt
how to put premises in a sanitar.
condition to avoid 4 typhoid, hook
worm, dysentery. malaria, tuberculo-
sis and other communicable diseases,
furnished hundreds Of public healti.
illustrated and demonstration lee
lures by means of sterioptican slides.
charts, and thousands Of illustrated
bulletins of about fifteen differen.
kinds, inaugurates teaching CT by
giene IN public or private schools
and these free lectures and public
health meetings are held in two o.
more school house and churches II
every school district in the county
and in white and colored schools ant.
churches.
This proposed health survey en-
braces other features Of instruction
and practical, easily comprehendee
application OF common sense rule
of prevention against unnecessary
disease and death.
The fact that somebody will give
FIVE thousand dollars for two thou
sand and five hundred dollars, anG
furnish trained officials and labo:
to do work would, in any other lin
~Sf legitimate endeavor be jumped
at by hundreds of people and by the
county board Of commissioners, an(
legislative delegation, and the coun-
" board of education.
If any outside organizations offer
ed two dollars for every one put ur
by the county fer improved high
ways, and offered to furnish in addi
ton all of the expert highway engi
neers, labor, and plans why the Of
fer would be snapped up in hurry.
But because the offer Of the Inter
national Healtl Board and the Stats
Board Of Health to give five thousant
dollars and furnish all necessary ex
pert engineers and sanitaTians an
laborers is for the purpose Of merely
saving human lives and preserving
human health, why. this offer is sim
bly, ignored by practically every on
bss1t-Some of the leading negroes O
ms count%io have raised and hav.
guaranteed sMshundred dollars to
help raise the necessar.v two thou
sands and five hundre6pllars. r.
Thousands OF white -. viii be
benefited by sucn a hea Frvey, the
county would be raae 11any thou
sands of dollars richer sNery year b:
such an educational campaign, anc
the two and a-half thousand dollar.
would be returned three fold ever.
year by the: increased, efficiency OF
farm labor alone not to mention 9TH
er benefits, such as avoiding loss of
earning power, doctors and druggist
bills. lost time, and loss Of time b.
individuals means lost time by farm.
animals too; yet we 1pfd no leaders
among the white people who are in
terested in getting up the two and "a
half thousand dollars needed.
Other counties in this and othe
States grab at the proposition. The
State Board of Health is making this
offer a second time to this county be
cause one nan here has asked for
another opportunity for Sumte.
county to put up the necessary mon
ey for this great educational stunt
which means so much for thousands
of boys and girls who can not helE
themselves, and so much for the meH
and women, white and colored OF the
rural districts There is nothing com
pulsory in anything the health survey
calls for 1t is purely educational
| and it is optional with all whethe'
they do or do not do what the pro
fessional sanitarians advise them <
do. But that an overwhelming ma
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