Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-26
And the Men He Sent Here to Do it to Protect
His Soldiers Are Still On the Job as Employ
es of the County and City Keeping 1t
So for Us All 50 Some Facts Worth
Considering in Choosing Home.

IN considering the desirability of community
"a place to live health conditions all inn
portant A place might be the Most productive
in the world its soil might be the most fertile its
rainfall the most nearly perfect its the most
ideal and its climate the most salubrious but i
disease flourished as well that fact alone would
discount its every good feature.
Sumter county has many features to boast. 1t
is land most favored of nature land of great
natural resources and advantages, land of
surpassed opportunity. But the least of these fea
lures to boast of is not its health condition-for
that is among its first if not its very first.
1t is well known fact that in some sections
OF the South malaria is prevalent to extent that
is very detrimental to the population But not so
with Sumter county. Malaria never particularly
abundant in this locality has now been ALMOST
WIPED OUT. This is fact of greater importance
than many of the people of this section realize
but which must impress itself upon every
seeking material information regarding Sumter
county place to make his home
The malarial mosquito. the sole carrier of this
disease, was practically eradicated in 1918 by the
United States Public Health Service in connection
with the location near Americas of Souther Field
of the countrys aviation training fields set up
during the latter part of the The government
about her soldiers health, established corps of
officers here and result large of money
were spent draining swampy places Strengthening
creek channels and otherwise wipng out mosqui-
to breeding places. AS result, the mosquito be-
rarity in this locality and malaria except
few chronic cases of long standing has become al
most extinct. During the present year the county
health commissioner, to whom all physicians
required by law to report all communicable dis
eases, HAS NOT RECEIVED A SINGLE RE-
PORT OF A CASE OF MALARIA IN SUMTER
COUNTY.
When the war was over and the government
work completed here the Assistant Sanitary En-
gineer, who had charge of all the nti-malaria
drainage work and mosquito eradication-W. D.
Tiedeman-was employed by the city of Americas
and is city engineer, superintendent of water
works, ETC. Dr.. B. F. Bond commissioner of pub
lie health during the war; who sent here by the
United States Public Health Service to see that
conditions all over the county were made abso-
lutey safe for the soldier in training here kept
in this position by Sumter county after he finished
his work for the government and still retains this
position
Under these two officials, Sumter county was
put into the most thorough state of sanitation of
any county in the state-AND is STILL MAIN
TANNED IN THAT CONDITION. Thus the pri-
vate citizen has been able to profit in the way of
improved health and sanitary conditions through
the coming of the soldiers training camp.
Not only has malaria been eradicated, but
other communicable diseases are becoming
common. Through free anti-typhoid vaccinations
such used in the army, typhoid fever has
practically disappeared Only three cases of that
malady have appeared this year in the county,
and they among persons who had not received the
incubation.
General sanitation has received much atten-
ton and conditions, both in the city of Americas
and in other sections of the county, have been
made wholesome where they were not entirely So