The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1921-08-01
HEALTH PICTURE
CLOSES SCHEDULE
EXHIBIT SHOWN
SIX TIMES AT FIVE DIFFER
ENT PLACES -DEMONSTRA-
TION AGENT ESTIMATES
THAT 1900 PEOPLE SAW 1T.

SClloOl duQlGoII Iu1u az <1utISfulc1 tiS
educational pictures on health,
which have been shown six times the
past week in Abbeville County, will
be taken this week to Pickens Coun-
ty. Mr.. D. A. Burrows, a medical
student of the University of Mary
land, Baltimore, is in charge of the
picture. Miss Ruth Crowther, home
demonstration agent, who has given
so much effort and time to the sue
cess of this campaign, estimated
that more than 400 people saw the
pictures at Antrevllle and that fully
1900 men, women and children
have seen them in the county dur
ing the week. P. H. Mann, superin-
tendent of education, made an intro
dhctory speech at Antreville.
Three pictures, carried over the
state in a light truck, teach three dis
tinct lessone, in a form that is easily
understood and yet entertaining.
The first picture deals with germs
and the means of communicating
them, the conditions under which
they thrive best and the surround
ings that are least conducive of their
increase. In the picture, a Iarge size
germ is personified, together with
his family, and they tell and act their
own story. Mr.. Jinks is the harassed
victim of the germs inroads, and he
is shown with and without them. His
home is ideally suited at the open
ing of the picture for the happiness
and easy life Of the germ, but when
he applies for insurance he is told
that he is no good. The doctor opens
his eyes and he gets rid of the germs
and the unsanitary surroundings
that make them so prosperous.
The second picture is on the sub
ject of drinking water and improper
drainage. An old farmer who is
content to let things drift as his
father and grandfather did before
him, has his eyes opened when his
daughter, to whom he is very much
attached, develops a case of typhoid
fever and the health officers trace
the malady to the drainage of sur
face water about the barnyard to the
well which supplies drinking water
for the family. Of course, the daugh-
ter recovers and the farmer learns a
lesson never to be forgotten.
The third picture is about cattle,
their diseases and the effect upon
the human body Of using products
from infected animals. A specific
application Of the principle involved
is made in the case of the daughter
of the stubborn old farmer. She has
cow of her own, a beautiful ami
ma, and since she has been told to
drink plenty of milk, she drinks a
quart day from her own Bess. She
gradually grows listless and dull
eyed, so that her parents become
alarmed over her condition. A doc
tor is consulted and he tells them
that Mary has tuberculosis, and that
it probably came from drinking
milk from cows that had tubercu-
losis. Then Mary goes to sanitari-
um and her father learns a lesson
about the meaning of having cows
tuberculin tested and how various
animal diseases are communicated
to people through the use Of their
products.
The health truck carries it's own
outfit projecting machine a genera
tor, plenty of wiring, screen and all
necessary tools for setting up. Mr..
Burrows has been handling the outfit
so long that he is adept at
getting the best results from
the pictures. He drives up to a
school house, sets up a screen,
screen, starts his generator and in a
few minutes the pictures are show
ing. He has travelled all over the
state this summer and last and says
that he has good crowds wherever he
goes. He frequently has tire troubles
due to heavy load, which sometimes