The Crittenden press., 1922-05-12
TRACHOMA CLINIC
Results Exceedingly Gratifying
DIR. Frazer Commends
LOYAL Support Given
BY Citizens

The trachoma clinic has come and
gone. the results are extremely grai.
flying There Wa never such inter
ct manifested in uublr health in
our county before. This vas q sim.
pie demonstration of what can BE-
done by public health workers when
th,fs h proper organization and
propsf cooperation by the good peo-
pie u the community
The Legislature appropriated ihir
teen Thousand dollars for the tracho.
ma work this year Dr C. B Robert
and his splendid nurses, Mrs sneia
ksr and Misa Cochran go out into the
state and look up and operats for
tachoma The operation l. simple
and any physician who Be- properly
sqalppsd and has the right kind u
asitianoe can perform The operation
sucesrsfully Tho results arr sure
Il the operation b. done 81 the right
time And The after treatment prop
sfly followed up
Daring The four days of our clinic
ous hundred and fourteen operations
wsrs done Seventy nine ~ these
Nsfu for tfachoma and The remain
De- wsrs Tor the removal u touall1
sni sdsnolds n these operations had
tssn done IN hospitals wiih the ordi.
nary charge for he OPERATIONS aud
other expenses necessarily incurred
thsl vould have cost The people ..
but eight thousand dollars. almost
The amount the stats pays Tor this
~ork fof ~ entire year
W. yst have many cases " tra.
ch0ms ln ihis county, n the pefcsn-
isgc runs a. high over the entire
county g. Il run ln the people -
snAminsd there are about ihiriesn
hundred cases u this disease in the
eouniy Nov lst us ihink what this
means 20 Cutisndsn county, hfiy
psrssni u these people will not b.
able 10 earn q support in twenty
ytan fTom nov. tNsnig psfcsut will
b blind of 30 nearly that they will
bscoms . charge on the taxpayers.
Many Hundreds others will contract
the disease and the ehicisncy u our
psopls ~ill b. lowered 81 lsast tweu.
~ percent within the nsst twenty
yssn b. this disease alone.
We have in this county nov many
People wh0 are totally blind that
could have ben saved u this wOrk
had been begun twenty years ago
Etcn county ln ksnturky has their
quots u blind a. = result " this de
ease What matters about making
monsy. procuring an cducAtion o.
other things necsssafy in this iife
II the windows u the soul arr 10 b.
clossd from Gods sun light BY this
pfeysuiabls disease
Ihs mosi sensible thing that have
heard said about our clinis waa said
By ths always thinking Grant Graves
Gfayss' terss Comment va, this, IL
this wofk had been commenced one
hundred years Aro ~ would not
ned u nov
We had splendid support from the
people and ihs dociors. and want
20 thanh nrh Cook and Perry for
tkUf loyal support and help for the
worl could not have been the suocess
Il ~As with oul The work they DID
Mayor Boswell and Rev. D. n Hart
stayed with Ia an the time and DID
the most splendid work | cysf saw
dons by men.
The Superintendent and the facul.
y of the school gave us their un.
siinisd support and J say all honor
10 them. IN all great things some
one will sumass an others, in thi,
vork Miss RUBY Hand Wa The ons
O. d. most She sccmsd a. b. eyefy
vhsrs and know exactly what 10 d.
and what % say She was uncom
promising and SCENTED 10 never tf,
in this noble wurk
We hops 10 be- able 10 have th'
clinic with us again Ia the future
and 10 BE- able % stamp oul this
dreadful disease.
7. ATCHlsON FRAZER,