Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-16
lCaNT|Es ARE AWAKENING
TdsHEALT TIL WORKS VALUE.
Seven in Virginia Arc Conducting
Intensive Campaign During
stE Present Year.
EIGHT INSTALL. DEMONSTRATORS
sanitation Being Preached in Every
( Section OF State as Means Of
Driving Out Typhoid, Dyscntcry
and Scores OF Other Diseases.

Virginia Department OF Health by the
heads OF the various bureaus of CO.
operating agencies show that, while
Is II may be long hong way to the
goal of completely ORGANIZED health
Y department IN each of the states
400 counties. results are being
achieved in rural health work which
must in time brirs wcll-nIGh every
h home in the Commonwealth under the
spell OF the bettcr heath spirit.
Working III close and cordial CO.
operation the state Department OF
& Health, the United States Puhi:c
i Health Service. and ihe State Council
OF Defense, with appreclable financial
s support from tho international Health
Board. are vagina community cam
! pa gins: under one or. thu other Of The
! plans, for rural health work, IN fifteen
counties In tue State. in watch coun-
ties the local authorities are co-opertt-
/ ing or the 'h.ty-hity' basis IN meet
paigns.
Z Seven counties are enlisted on The
COUNTY unit plan on twelve months
basis. these being the counties OF WISE
Prince William. Fauuuier. rittsylvania.
! Fairfax. Augusta and Alexandra, War
re-. aar eoqnE i.s hrsi TO w e2npfs'
well pleased with the results achieved
I that i is planning TO make its health
organization permanent.
Many Health Drives.
In recent years Intensive health
campaisns for three monin per.ocs
with a scatter ng % six-month efforts
i'a e sNS4i S''- =, - -
other ccuntics-Sou champion, Frank
lin. Greensville. Northampton. Middle
seS. Essex. M:99ntse?neGiy. Wnshineton,
Clarke. prince Edward, Hanover,
sOrab+e. Rockingham. Amelia, Motto
MayS D!nwiddle., tienr.co, SMITH and
.AppomaitoX. Health workers early
BECAME convinced that 20 secure the
y best. results in community effort Il
was, necessary - carry on their work
for,tht least year. the three-monih
Campaign being too short for n proper
Demonstration. and even the sin
months period proving insufficient 10
40 build mp public sentiment adequnte
to securing permanent organization
Tor county sanitation.
Hence II attn Department oihcia!s
and o-oper TN: agencies concentrated
on the twelvr-inoath county unit plan.
under wa!ch an effective health de-
parinent Is Installed IN the CO. operat-
tta1ci medical health officer as ield
dif%c;o-. trained siaif OF inspectors.
AT least one trained school nurse and
a Gle. ca. assistant. Il is contemplated
that the wo-S sha.! ac 50 orEanlzea
that every nome n ne county shal
excreta disposal and with a properly
prutecreG water supply, inspectors
making sanitary surveys and giving
/ hous holders :he henef; % expert ad-
All Preach Sanitation.
Every wo-s-- N ooH1ec;.on Win the
s siars sza7,a;'o:. dreams ssai,s; .oa.
jreacles sa-lt-t!oc ana j walking
corrti-at-a-. - sanitary inspiration 40
K .-.to--la;.cr Tn .l~a ma; mis- en-
Il tauzis>-. XII. prove catching ana Will
y s-pof. .1sec. .a= w:-l. community ana
81 sw'es5 :: .--D great sarii-ry a"ak-
n bit-.l.a! ICY .a-i.--Ss Is D-N, TO
& Eodl.-tss g--sr5er reason for sound
! Ing L-n2:@ . -=a--t q Inc To-s
ne %: y = h.E ls = mas capacity.
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