The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1922-09-09
Through fundamentally of DR.. John
A. Mead, County Health Officer,
Director General F. J. Underwood,
Nj. D., of State Welfare Board,
Appears Before Board of Super
visors-Hancock County Agrees to
Put Work in at Once.
SUPERVISORS APPROPRIATES
$2,300.OO TO CONDUCT
WORK.
Greatest Blessing To Children Of
County-Thanks to Boards Pro-
gressiveness and Liberality-Su-
pervisors Make 1t Possible For the
Conduct of Such Work in Hancock
County-List Showing What Work
Will Consist OF.

Iounty-LIst Showing What Work
Will Consist OF.
The Board of Supervisors of Han
cock county, in regular session this
week, passed an order appropriating
$2,300.00 for the defraying of the
expense of adopting the activities of
the State Bureau of Child Welfare
operating under the auspices of the
Mississippi State Board of Health.
This is under authority of Chapter
203, Statutes 1918.
This will prove a boon and abless-
ing to every boy and girl in Bay St.
| Louis and the balance of Hancock
county. 1t will mean the proper pre-
! caution from disease to every boy
and girl.
Accompanied by DR.. John A Mead,
county health officer; F. J. Under
wood, M. D., director general of the
State Bureau of Child Welfare. ap-
peared before the Board of Super
visors in regular session this week
and presented the work and plan, and
what it meant. Members of the Board
readily saw the advantage of adopt
| ing the work for Hancock, and an or
der was unanimously passed for its
adoption.
What is the health standard for
your boy, for your girl? Do you
know? Well, here it is-as laid down
by the State Welfare Board. This
will be the standard for Hancock
county:
Ears-(a) Hearing normal. (b) No
evidence of disease or inflammation.
Eyes-(a) Vision normal or cor
rected by glasses. (b) No evidence
of disease or inflammation.
Nose-(a) No adenoids. (b) No
other obstruction.
Throat-(a) No diseased or en-
larged tonsils. (b) No Inflammation.
Mouth-(a) No untitled cavaties
in teeth. (b) Teeth clean, showing
evidence of daily care. (c) Gums
healthy.
Skin-(a) No eruption. (b) Scalp
clean. (c) Scalp free from pedlcu-
losis
Lungs-(a) No evidence of dis
ease. (b) Chest expansion at least
two inches.
Vaccination-(Small pox) Good
scar Or certificate Of recent Vacena-
ton.
Nutrition-(a) Weight normal or
not more than ten pounds overweight.
(b) Free from hookworm as shown
by neg. report.
In addition to this standard Of
health, The Echo asked DR.. Mead and
DR.. Underwood what would the pro
gram of work consist of, to which the
gentlemen replied: "Physical examl-
nation of school children, collecting
and filing health and weight records,
INSPECTION of school buildings and
premises, forming health centers,
baby pre-school work, establishing
clinics as needed, distribution of
health literature, organizing child
welfare committees, nutrition work,
health lectures, exhibiting moving
pictures of educational nature, follow
up work by public health nurse, pre-
sentation of health buttons. newspa-
per service, etc"
Another unit or phase of the work
comes under the heading OF "Nutrl-
tion," as follows:
/. To supervise generally the nu-
triton activities of the bureau.
2. To supervise nurses or others
qualified in the formation and devel-
opment of a nutrition program, fol-
lowing the physical examination OF
school children, pre-school children
and babies, in those counties having
child welfare units, rural sanitation
units, full time health officers, active
nursing services and upon request
other counties and communities as
time permits.
The general program is to en-
| brace:
/. The regular weighing and re-
cording on the weight records OF all
school children.
2. Cultivating the milk drinking
habit for all children; milk delivery
at schools.
| 8. School lunches, improving OF
those brought from home, and start
ing hot lunches at school.
4. Organizing and conducting
growth classes" and ''mother-chlld
| conferences for underweight chill
dren and babies.
5. Educational work, talks to pa
rents, children, schools, clubs and
other organizations.
MATERNITY AND INFANT
HYGIENE.
|. To supervise and direct special
nurses in the field, whose duties are
to be as follows: (a) To investigate,
instruct, issue permits and further
supervise midwives with the cooper
alton of the county health officer. (b)
Lectures and demonstrations to
groups of mothers and other inter-
ested individuals. Prenatal care Of
prospective mothers; natal care and
lying-in period; care and feeding of
infants (c) Distribution of litera-
ture. I'D Organization of local COM
mittees.
2. What we hops to accomplish:
(a) More complete birth registration,