Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-11-08
NO Hold
FEVER HERE
IN OCTOBER
All Previous Health Records
Broken During the Past
Month.
FOOD INSPECTIONS III
Review Given of Other Work Ac-
complished During Month - DR..
Foulks Says General Health of the
City has been Wonderfully Good.

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According to the monthly report
OF DR.. L. f. Foulks, city health Off
! Ger, no cases of typhoid fever, dipthe-
ria or scarlet fever originated within
the city limits during the past month
| This is the first record time on rec
ord, according to DR.. Foulks, during
which there has been no typhoid
cases in September or October.
According to the report there werA
comparatively few cases of children'a
diseases such as scarlet fever, dipthe-
ria, measles, chickenpoX and the like
This it is stated is keeping up with
/ the autumn record of 1921:
According to Dr.. Foulks every
means at his command is being used
to prevent such diseases from devei'
oping, and when a case is found moth
ing is left undone to prevent others
from being infected. Such methods
as these it is pointed out by him are
hound to secure good results in pre-
venting the spread of communicable
diseases.
During the month there were III
inspections made nf various estah
hshments handling food such as res,
taurants, grocery stores, meat anG
fish markets, fish wagons, bakeries.
etc. $40 pounds of meat was cor
demned at the slaughter house; 2T
! inspections were made at various
diaries that supply milk to the city
! and seventy-five tests Of milk were
conducted in the departments labora-
/ tory
4 total of 203 general contraband
complaints were received and mveS-
, tigated; 1877 nuisances bated; 1872 OF
fetal notices were issued to correct
unsanitary conditions; six persons
were summoned into the police court
to answer charges made by the
health officer; ten sewer connections
were made during the month ana
three inspectios were made Of pubic
schools.
in October as contained in the 70
port follows:
b The Laboratory
We made . total Of 800 tests in
orr laboratory during October. This
is about our usual monthly average
and represents about the full capac
itv of our laboratory. % tests were
made of the city water and they
turned out very rood.
Venerable Clinic
In this special clinic we had g.
patients. and gave total of 500
treatments. This is some increase
over previous months. The value of
this work to the present, as well as
future generations, cannot be meas
ured in dollars and cents!
Special Eye Clinic
! In this clinic we had Is patients
and gave a total of ~ treatments.
Most of these patients are school
children, and all in great need of the
expert examination, advice and treat
NETS we were able to give them.
Thanks to the valuable assistance
given us by Dr. Benton, Commander,
Medical Corps, U. S. Navy, this clinic
is doing great work for the public
good, with practically no expense to
the city. o.,
In this clinic we treat the poor and
needy of orr city, and furnish them
with all medicine required. During
October. we gave 1O4 examinations,
advice and treatments in this clinic
MANY of these patients were visited
at their homes by our doctor and
nurse. 10 treatments were also given
n oatients at the city Aims House.
Public Health Nurse
Our nurse made 43 Investigations,
instrnctive nursing and infant well
ware visits during the month. She
rendered assistance to the school
nurse when required and examined
} &c school children. she also attend
ed our various clinics on 70 after
moons and did such other work as
set forth in the detailed report.
General Remarks
GAS before mentioned the general
} health of the city has been wonder
fully good. far more so than recorded
in anv previous October
con October 2Sth, three small chill
dren were bitten by a mad dog The
narents of these children being un-
able to pay for the treatment re.
. uired to protect their lives, this
department Immediately took charge
of tine cases and we are now giving
, them the Pasteur treatment.
81 consider the general sanitary
condition of our city as being fairly
each member of the Health De
nartmen+ now has as much work as
he or she can handle with any degree
Of efficiency, and if it were not for
the fact that all of US are forced tc
work MANY hours over time each
week we could not accomplish the
work that it is actually necessary for