Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1921-04-22
ADVICE ON HOW
TO KEEP WELL
Clinic to Be Held in County Next
Next Week by Doctors From
State Health Department.
Free Lunch to Out of
Town People.

Cooperating with the County
Health Department, specialists from
the State Board of Health will b.
present to make free chest examina
tiions and to give free advice to al
county people white or colored, wht
will appear at any of the following
places on the following dates:
GRAHAM, April 26th Banquet
Hall of Masonic Building, 9 n. m. tt
a p. m.
POCAHONTAS, April 9th. Firs,
Aid Room, Il. m. to a p. m.
TAZEWELL, April 2Sth, County
Health Office, Greever Building, 9
a m. to a PIP. IN.
HIGHLANDS, April 29th, DIR. Cas-.
iillo's Dental Office. 9 q. m. to p. m
Don't be Careless With Your Health
If your automobile develops q
"knock" or a "rattlc" you always
stop running it till you can have it
overhauled by an expert mechanic
If your body develops O weakness"
or a Cough" ure you going to keep
running it in that condition until an
incurable form of tuberculosis re-
suits or are you going to consult an
expert physician and remedy the
trouble while it is slight?
If Taken in Time tuberculosis Is
Curable-Suspicious Symptoms:
COUGH with or without expecto-
ration.
Frequent Bronchial" Grip" or
Fever" attacks very suspicious.
BLOOD SPLITTING. Cause is tuber-
culosis nine times n ten. Pluerisy {:
Caused by tuberculosis seven times
in ten. Night Sweats. Very suspic-
ious.
Loss of Weight; Loss of Strength; ;
LOSS OF Appetite; Loss of Ambition |;
A Slight Afternoon Rise of Tempera-
turc; or, to put the picture more
briefly, the condition generally re-
ferred to as "RUN DOWN."
If any of these symptoms are
present, NO MATTER HOW WELL
YOU LOOK OR FEEL, or if you have
Any History of tuberculosis in Your
Family, or il you have any condition
which you do not understand take
advantage of c'ne of the above oppOr-
tunities for free examination and ad-
vice. You can be cured if you take it
in time. Hundreds of patients who
have been treated ut the State Snni-
tUria are we'll today.
BE EXAMINED YOURSELF
ENCOURAGE OTHERS.
Richmond, Va, April 21.-The Vir-
ginia tuberculosis Association gives
the following report on the clinic
held in Radford April 14th. Free
chest examinations were made by DR..
w. E. Brown, of Catawba Sanitorium
assisted by Drs. Wilson, Noblip,
Fuqua and Hewery.
OF the 76 persons examined, 81
showed suspicious symptoms of tu-
berculosis, while there were 2 moder-
ately advanced. incipient and 1 ad-
yanced case of this disease.
Miss Virginia P. Bailey, formerly
the public health nurse Of Radford
has accepted position on the staff
of the Virginia tuberculosis Asso-
citation, and will assist the doctors
Mt the clinics. In counties where
there is no public health, nurse, Miss
Bailey, who is highly qualified in
such work, will help the local doc
tors in their preparations for the
clinics, and in following up the cases
of tuberculosis discovered by the
clinician.
The next free chest examination
will be held in Fluvanna County,
April 10th to % inclusive. followed
by simultaneous clinics in Tazewell
and Prince Edward Counties, April
26 to 20, inclusive.