The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1920-01-24
SUMTER COUNTY
SANITARY SURVEY
Annual Report Submitted to De-
partment of County Health
Work

DR.. D. T. Rankin who was IN
charge of the health survey and san
itary work in Sumter county during
1913 completed his term OF service
with the close Of the year and return
ed to his home in Georgia to resume
the practice of medicine. Dr. Ran-
kin was in the army medlca1 service
durine the war 7 transferred to
the county health vrk when he OBJ
tanned his discharge The high COM
mendation he receives from DR.. Riser
the State director of county health
work, is we'll deserved. He discharged
the duties of his position efficiently
and the good work that he did in
Sumter county will be seen and felt
for years.
The following letter from DR.. Riser
companying the report Of DR.. Ran
kin, shows the official estimate Of his
services:
Mr.. E. 7. Reardon. Secretary Chamber
of Commerce. Sumter. S. c.
D.ar Mr.. Reardon: At the request
of DR.. Rankin, I am sending you a
summary of his work for the year
1919.
We have been very much pleased
with the work Dr. Rankin has done
in Sumter conuty. and I am glad to
tender you this report. DR.. Rankin's
sanitary work was probably the best
done by any man during the year
not single complaint has come in re-
garding any tank which he put in.
In our nurses reports the medical
examination has been included but
this is in order to make the nurses re-
ports uniform in cases where there
are no doctors. In the counties con-
nectcd with my department the ply
sicia in charge does he inspection
nurse does net do the in
Specting hut does the recording. filing.
etc, and then does the follow up work.
Our doctors also give the typhoid IN
From Dir. Rankin's letter,
I premise that t here has been some
about that. so I am
writing thus to keep this matter
straight.
Dr. Rankin did not do a great deal
of lecture work in the county as you
know; he has some impediment in
his speech and it is little difficult
for him to appear before strange
audiences. For this reason I did not
insist on very much work of this sort
as I knew how hard it was on him TO
give these lectures.
Very truly yours.
L. A. Riser, NJ. D..
In charge Department County Health
Work.
Yearly Sanitary Report for Sumter
County.
House to house survey made in
dayesville, Shiloh, Concord. Privateer,
sumter and parts of Middleton and
,tateburg townships.
Number. of persons visited: White.
:.164: colored, 1851; total, 9,525.
Number Of homes visited: White,
IA; colored 1,446; total. 2,160.
Number of homes with privies:
White, 592: colored, 954; total, l.
40
Number of homes without privies-
White, 122: colored, 1872; total, 614.
Ky. septic tanks installed: White
Is; co1ored, 1; total, 4S.
Pit privies built: White, 29; color
ed. 0; tota's29.
Pit privies built at schools: White,
,. Included in above figures.
Educational lectures: White, 6; col
bred, O.; total, s.
Attendance: White, 5o7; colored,
O; total 5o7.
Literature distributed: White, p
l69: colored; O.; total 2,169.
Typhoid inoculations, 1,134.
Small pox vaccinations, 81.
Hookworm treatments given, 50.
Report of School Examina-
tionS.
Number schools examined: White,
Sc: colored, 10; total. 46.
Number schools partly examined:
10; total 10.
Number pupils enrolled. 1879.
Number pupils examined: White,
1885, colored. 1856; total 2s5e1.
Number pupils .defectWe: White,
s74; colored. S45; total, 1,71s.
Number defects: White, 1857; col