The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-05-04
HEALTH DEPARTMENT, ELLIS
COUNTY, KANSAS
Monthly Report for the Month OF
April 1922

Monthly Report for the Month of
April 1922
April %. 1922.
To Board of County Commissioners
: The County Health Officer attend
/ ed the Public Health Institute and
Health Officers Training School, at
Kansas City, Kansas, April 10th to
/ April 18th, as a delegate from Ellis
county. For several years there have
been maintained in connection with
| our leading universities, schools. of
! Public Health and Hygiene, where
regular courses are offered and de
grees are conferred in Public Health
and Hygiene. In addition to these
courses the U. S. Public Health Ser
ice. in cooperation with some of the
states. has maintained these -insti-
tutes at some points in the country,
for the instruction of the Health Of
fcers and Sanitarians who are al
ready engaged in active health work
Through these Institutes it is
hoped to keep the Health Officers and
Sanitarians Informed as to the pro-
gress of Public Health and sanitation
and the newer methods of Health Ad-
ministration. An opportunity IS Of
fered for the Health officer to ex-
change ideas and profit by the exper-
ience Of others who are working
along the same lines. 1t is also hoped
that by those conferences a more uni
form system of Health administra-
tion will develop throughout the
different states.
The meeting at Kansas City was
pronounced one Of the best ever held
in this section. The program con-
tanned the names of many prominent
speakers and leaders in Public Health
Work. Besides the regular program,
an interesting exhibit was displayed
in one of the buildings, illustrating
different phases of Child Hygiene,
school inspection, public health nurs-
ing. sanitary engineering, epidem-
ology, infant mortality, etc. Other
exhibits illustrated the use of the new
instruments and apparatus in the
control and prevention of commun-
icable diseases.
Some of the most interesting sub
jects discussed were the results of
the studies made by the Public Health
Research Laboratory at Washington,
D. C. Studies were carried on at this
institution during the year to deter
mine whether the various forms OF
Smallpox were due to the same or
ganism, the cause of Pellagra in the
South. the method of transmission of
a new Plague-like disease in Utah,
and to perfect a serum for Pneu-
monia. Some progress seems to have
been made in all of these except the
last. no serum has yet been perfected
that will cure Pneumonia.
One of the most interesting feat
ures of the convention was the
speech on Public Health by Dr..
Crumbine, the State Health Officer.
The speech was delivered at the
auditorium, and broadcast by radio
and listened to by hundreds Of peo-I
pie all over the country.
Health Officers and Public Health
workers from five states, Oklahoma,
Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, and
Nebraska, participated in the conven-
ton. There were enrolled over 500
delegates and about 25o attended
daily.
Afr returning from the Health
Convention at Kansas City, the
Health Omcer was requested to speak
At the Component Medical Society at
Colby, on the Development and Pre-
sent Status of the County Health De-
partment. At this meeting It was
learned that two. new counties ln
Western Kansas had decided bo put
IN a FuIl-Time Health Department, %
operate on the same basis as our De-