Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1920-09-11

leaflets that would help advise the mothers as to the proper care and feeding of the baby. Considerable helpful correspondence has resulted.
 Public Health Survey Anti-tuberculosis and public health nursing activities are very closely al lied. The work of prevention of tu- berculosis is based upon proper living and proper living can be secured in most communities only through the installation of public health nurses, public school nurses, and the estab- lishment of clinics through which peo- pie can be advised as to their health needs and how they can best be met.
 The State Health Department has co-operated with MT. T. c. Cuvellier, executive secretary of the Arizona Anti-Tuberculosis Society, in securing a public health survey of the state of Arizona, especially in the larger cen ters of population; through this the public will be informed as to actual health conditions and thus will be made to realize the necessity for com munity health movements that in the past ahve been considered with rather an impersonal interest.
 Venereal Disease Control
 During the first six months of the fiscal year the Bureau of Venereal Disease Control, under the direction of Doctor z. Causey of Douglas, at- tempted to establish the mode of pro- cedure employed by the Federal Gov ernment in other states.
 It was found that the beurau was not securing the necessary co-opera- tion throughout the State. It was found that the methods were not prac- tical for Arizona, since our problem is much simpler than in other states.
 In Arizona the existence of prohi- bition for three years resulted in the practical elimination of professional prostitution except in Phoenix and Tucson. As a consequence, the pre- valence of venereal diseases, especial ly in the smaller communities, is com paratively light. The campaign for the control of venereal diseases in this state will be less difficult, because most of the communities have already been rid of the class that made up the formerly well-organibed group of liquor dealers and the powerful and we'll organized group of related inter- ests that profited through vice.
 Steps have been taken that have as- sured us of the cooperation of exist ing machineray of the health depart ment in the control of venereal diseas- es along simple lines. We expect to have the problem solved for Maricopa and Pima counties within,a reasonable period.
 Vital Statistics
 This department has taken up with the U. s. Public Health Service the matter of cooperating with that ser vice so as to insure that our depart ment of vital statistics shall be con- stantly in touch with the best and most advanced thought on this i'm portant problem. We have also talk en steps towards having Arizona rec ognized as a member of the registra- tion area of the United States, so that our data in regard to births and deaths shall be included in National Statistics in these matters. Such CO., operation presupposes intelligent di- rection in the office of the State Health Department and would add to a certain extent to the details of the statistical work of the office.
 Rural Sanitation
 The Legislature of 1919 appropriat- ed $4,500.00 for the biennium, begin ming July 1, 1919, to aid in bettering rural sanitation. This action was taken with the understanding that a similar sum would be supplied by the Federal Government so. that there would be available on annual fund of &,4550.00 for a department devoted to this activity. Congress failed to make the necessary appropriation. As a consequence, it became evident that there would not be sufficient funds to proceed with the work along the lines contemplated, and Colonel E. P. Grin stead, who had been appointed Di- rector of Rural Sanitation, resigned at the end of the first six months of the fiscal year, after having spent considerable time in the solving of various rural problems. This action was taken with the idea that hte mon ey then remaining in the fund, which was in the neighborhood of $7OO. .00, should be held available in case of the necessity of meeting some unforeseen emergency, such as the influenza epi- demic of 1918-19, where many lives were sacrificed because of the unpre- paradness of the State and of the var ious counties to properly finance the needs made immediate by the exigen- cies of the occasion.
 l Publicity
 A campaign of education among the people has been systematically carried on through the sending of publicity items to the press of the Stata from time ta time These have