The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1921-09-29
THE HEHALTH OF BAMBERG.

be, there is always silver lining.
The silver lining may not always be
visible to everybody, but it is pres
ent. Without question the present
year is the most adverse for most
people the county has perhaps ever
experienced, fnacially speaking. But
the county is not without its bless
ings this year.
1t is generally agreed that the
health of Bamberg generally has been
better this summer than in many
years, and this in the face of adverse
weather conditions. The past win
ter being very mild one, followed by
a rainy summer, the conditions were
ideal for unhealthy conditions in the
city, and yet there has been less ma
laria and kindred diseases than per-
haps ever before.
The drainage of Bamberg, we be-
lieye, has shown itself to be cf vast
benefit to this community this sum
mer. Residents of the town know
the results of rainy summer before
this drainage was completed. They
know of the hordes of mosquitoes
that have followed every wet season
in the summer and of the impossible
task of protecting the homes of the
town against the pests. We do not
mean to convey the idea that here
were no mosquitoes in Bamberg this
year. There were many of them, but
in every instance we know of they
were traced to local conditions, and
when the source was found the mos
quitoes generally vanished.
We have stated before that the
town was promised entirely too much
when this work was undertaken. The
idea became prevalent that the eX-
penditure of certain sum of money
meant no more mosquitoes in Bam-
berg. This was an erroneous i'm
preston and should not, have been
made. The work of eradication is
not perfect, and it is not possible to
to make it perfect without the full
and hearty cooperation of every
householder in Bamberg.
The point is, there has been vast
improvement of the health conditions
in Bamberg, this condition has fol-
lowed the malarial eradication work,
and we have evry reason to believe
that conditions would have been bad
this summer had this work not been
done. Of all years when good health
was needed in Bamberg in our opln-
ion 1921 stands ont most prominent
ly.
There has been no contagion of
any sort here, very little malaria, no
serious typhoid cases, and very little
sickness of any sort, and for this con-
dition Bamberg ought to feel very
grateful. In this connection, we print
below the report of the state health
department on contagious diseases,
in which Bamberg is not once men
toned:
In the list of contagious diseases
reported to the state health depart
ment during August, diptheria led
with a total of 275 cases reported.
Anderson and Darlington counties
reported II cases each; Greenville
%; Lexington 33 and Marlboro "a.
Other counties reported smaller num-
bers of cases.
Sixteen cases of scarlet fever were
reported during August. Abbeville
and Charleston reported one case
each; Greenville, three; Newberry,
four; Orangeburg, two; Richland,
three, and Spartanburg, two.
The toal number of smallpox cases
reported was 10. Allendale reported
two; Barnwell three; Fairfield one;
Greenville four; Hampton four; Rich
land four, and Spartanburg three.
Twelve cases of tuberculosis were
reported. Charleston, Fairfield, Lex
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each; Marion and Richland three
each. and York two.
Sixty-fve cases of typhoid fever
were reported. Anderson, Darling
ton, Laurens, Lexington and Spar
tanburg reported one each; Abbeville
and Cherokee reported three each;
Chesterfield and Dorchester, five
each: Fairfield, two; Greenville, four;
Mccormick and Marion, five each;
Newberry, four; Oconee. six; Orange
burg, five; Pickens, seven; Saluda,
six.
Thirteen cases of whooping cough
were, turned in to the health othces.
Four of these were in Greenville and
nine in Richland.
Pellagra totalled II cases. TWO
were reported from Cherokee; one
each from Chesterfield, Dorchester,
Fairfield, Lexington and Spartanburg.
four from Horny and six from Marion.
Six cases of influenza were report
ed from Kershaw and five from YORK.
The two cases of cancer reported
during August were both from Ma
rion county.