Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1920-04-28
Afternoon, Session

f1tCl uUUN OCSSAON
The afternoon session Of the confer
>ence vas opened at . o'clock, j. @.
Gulnac of Bangor. memter Of the state
Public Health Council presiding. The
morning session was 80 short that w.
/ II. Harris. executive secretary of the
Maine Public Health Association, who
was scheduled to speak in the morning,
was forced to forego his talk until the
opening of the afternoon sc sion.
Mr. Harris took as his subject The
Maine Public Health Assc citation and
Its Relation to the State Department
of Health and Other Health Agencies
in Maine His address, IN part, point
ed out that public health conditions
are effected not only by hygiene and
sanitation but also by the conditions of
rural roads and othdf parts Of our
transportation system, climate, indus
trial output, crops. monetary systems.
political and diplomatic situations. To-
cal, national and international. Edu-
cational and spiritual standards are the
foundations on which physical public
health must be built. No community
is so small that some or all Of the wide
variety of health needs may be advan-
tageousy provided for in whole or in
part through Joint participation Of all
citizens working through their own 10
cally supported and controlled health
organizations.
1.-THE Need of Full Time Health Of.
ficers'
The next speaker called was DR.. d.
W. Worth Of Bangor, State district
health officer. who spoke on The Need
of Full-Time Health officers in Maine"
DR.. Worth likened the need of local
health officers in Maine to the need Of
sunshine to raise the crops. The real
need Of the health officer is to promote
health education. More than 50 per
cent. of the deaths in Maine are caused
by preventable diseases, which shows
the need of health officer. The health
officers, associated with the health de.
partnent. are like the firemen. ready at
any time to go forth and work for the
! betterment Of the community.
! w. n. Judkins Of York
The next speaker was w. II. Jud-
kins of York, local health officer, who
lON Oh Hc f1lStOTs VI uii- un0
Health Work in the Town of York.
| The start Of health work in York
was due to typhoid epidemic in 1914.
An inspector was appointed to make 4
sanitary survey of the town and the
outcome of the survey was the appoint
ment Of a full-time health officer who
investigated contagious diseases, in
spected the milk supply, the drainage
problems and others. A laboratory was
| equipped and tests made, dairles were
inspected and licenses and the milk
analysed and safeguarded. In the year
1918 York was remarkably free from
communicable diseases.
Major Albert w. Buck, Old Town
Major Albert ". Buck Of Old Town.
union health officer, spoke on 1.-THE De-
velopment of the First Health Union in
Maine" Mr.. Buck stated that for u
number of years Old Town ard Orono
have united to form a union school dis
trict. They believed later that a similar
union might be formed for the en-
ployment of local health officer. The
towns of Milford. Old Town, Bradley,
Orono and Veazie joined in this en-
deavor and, using tho first initial Of
each town, the new union was named
the "Motboy Health Union" which is
in effect now.
City Health Officers Speak
The next four speakers were all health
officers in their respective cities and
told Of Recent Developments in Full
Time Health Work." The speakers were
Dr. L. F. Fall Of Auburn, DR.. L. J.
Dumont Lewiston. DR.. II. D. Mcneil
of Bangor and C. s. Kingsley Of Bath.
Each told of his problems and aims as
health officers and the various kinds Of
work they had done and are doing for
the subsequent betterment Of their COM
munities; each onicer devoting all his
, energies to the making Of his city a
more healthful place in which to live.
w. P. Wadlsish Of Bar Harber
The last speaker Of the afternoon was
w. p. Wadleigh Of Bar Harbor, who
took as his subject Local Health Work
| That Can BE Done on q Part Time
| Basis"
/ The local health officer. even on q part
time basis. is the health executive, and
to him the public looks for the suppress
sion and prevention Of disease and for
the elimination of nuisances. Pure milk,
pure water, clean stores, restaurants,
hotels and boarding houSes s.e the sub.