Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-21
HEALTHBOARD
KEEPS FUSON
ANOTHER YEAR
Doctor Will Be Retained as
Holdover Officer by
Department.

The public health department Id
Great Falls. established as an office.
Jointly financed by the government,
county and city, in August, l9Zo' VII
continue under the present arrange
ment for another year, it has been an
nounced by Mayor r. NJ. Armour fol-
lowing a decision reached by city
county and government officials. Dr
G.. A. Fuson will be retained as the
public health officer in charge of the
department. g..
Following the expiration of the first
regnIaf year of the office, by the terms
of the contract under which 1t was
created, funds were appropriated 1oi
the continuation of the office n Dr
Fuson was retained as a holdoVer OF
ficer.
Work Is Praised
Virtually all of the comment that
7 have heard of DIR. Fuson's work has
been in his favor" Mayor Armour SAD
"His work in connection with leaning
I'm the west side diphtheria menace hai
heen especially commendable. There
has scarcely been a complaint regis
tered. and there have been many
praises voiced in Fuson's behalf.
DIR. Fuson was appointed by Mayor
Armour under the recommendation OF
the state board of health officials aho
government health officials. lie "aS
a practicing physician in hahspel al
the time of his appointment, where Nc
had been since 3O9
The city and county budgets each
allow an appropriation OF Sll,0oo an
nuallv for the maintenance OF the pup
liz health department. The government
contribution to the office was reduced
his wear from S2,400 to $1,SOO. Ihe
money is all placed in a general 1uhu
and any amount remaining IN excess
of the expense involved IN the MAN
enanc of the office is retained as a
sinking fund to provide for any exl-
~gencies which might arise, such as as
ease epidemics, Mayor Armour e&'
planned.
tiyes. and these will be stressed ID the
continuation of the work o. the de-
partment of health here, DIR. fuson
stated Wednesday. These obJectlves
are education in health fundamentals
and in the control of communicable
diseases. He expects to spread the
propaganda of disease prevention by
means of talks, examinations, dlstrlDu-
tion of literature and vaccination.
During his administration, DR.. tuson
and his staff, composed OF one Onleu
States public health service ~consultant
one public health nurse, one bacterloI-
ogist, working part time; one sanitary
INSPECTOR and one statistlclan ana stem
ographer. DR.. Fuson has instituted re-
search work among the school chill
dren. vaccination against communl-
cable diseases and the examination Of
school and pre-school age children
The annual report of the office maze
to the state board of health and to the
United States public health service
shows the following work done during
4,eI4 Students Examined
Babies and children of pre-schoo
age examined, 1,151; school children
examined, 4,014; patients examined al
tuberculosis clinics, As; lectures gwen
So. with an estimated attendance oil
2.3O5; visits to explain and demon
strate infant hygiene, 325; pamphlets
distributed to 2,579 persons; vaccina-
lions against smallpox, 1,1O2; complete
typhoid fever innoculations, 80; visits
made TO persons with communicable
diseases, $50; quarantine placed, $50
complete diphtheria NEGOTIATIONS, con-
Eigting of three vaccinations, 445; in
spection of food product places, 2l3
sanitary inspections made at schools
391; fumigations, 484; miscellaneous
inspections, escaping gas, faulty sew,
age, cts, 341; smears made to deter
mine diphtheria, 1916; tuberculosis
sputum examinations, 16; water sam
pies examined for colon bacilli, BAT.
The report also shows that under
the full time department plan, the cost
of operation was $4,000 less than that
of the part time department.