Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-08-03
OF FUND
FOR FUS0N IS
STILL ON HAND
Six Weeks Remain of Fiscal
Year and $3.50 Is
Intact.

OF the 1922 health department
budget of $4,000. total expenditures
up to July of this year. minus rem
paid for July, were $14.O59.55, leav-
ing a balance. minus one and one-hah
months expenses yet to be deducted
of S7.94G.45, according to the annua
report of DR.. G. A. Fuson, ~city-county
health officer. The total expense OF
the detention hospital was S2.43';l3,
and but S415.57 has been collected:
The force of last years health de-
partment included a health officer, Dr.
G.. A. Fuson; Il consultant from the
United States public health service,
DR.. Fred 7. Foard; a public health
nurse. Miss Dora Mecklenberg: a bac-
teriOlOgist. DIR Thomas +. Walker; a
sanitary inspector, William Shea, and q
statistician and stenOgrapher, Mrs.
Lucy Wilson.
DR.. Fuson's prospectus to his re-
port is, in part, as follows:
The purposes of the health depart
ment are the prevention of unneces-
sary disease and death and the build
ing up to a maximum degree OF the
health of the people. The control OF
~preventable diseases and educating the
people in matters pertaining to health
are the two principal detectives.
Give Advice to Mothers
in the baby and pre-school clinics.
the child is inspected and the mother
advised as to its future management.
The tuberculosis and other clinics con
Quoted throughout the county serve
both the above purposes.
s"NhA no1 ~ bIn dis
ease is attempted by isolation. quaran-
tine and vaccination. The people must
understand the Importance of report
ing promptly all suspected cases and
recognize the good effects of VAGINA
ton. Diphtheria is caused largely for
its wide spread by the ignorance of
many people, who have the germs, but
are in such health that they do not
realize hat they are common carriers.
There were 445 complete vaccina-
tons given for diphtheria last year.
culture of contacts on schools and
elsewhere were made for the purpose
of locating carriers, who were i'm
mediately isolated.
The victims of tuberculosis for the
year numbered 13 or 3 Is per cent
for each 10000 people. tuberculosis
Is decreasing in our community.
There were % cases of typhoid
fever. but no deaths. The records of
Il of the local hospitals shows that
from 1910 to 1913 there were 236 pa
tents of typhoid fever in that institu-
ton alone, and 81 fatalities.
Free vaccination for typhoid. small
pox and diphtheria has been offered.
Isolation and quarantine have been
imposed and every means of combat
ting communicable diseases employed.
Goes on Business Basis
II has been our policy to place the
health department on a business basis
that will insure the greatest returns"
. 1914 school children physically
examined. 4,19S were defective. There
were 206 defects corrected. Vaccina-
tons for smallpox numbered 1912:
there were 80 complete innoculations
for TYPHOID fever. The health office
made $40 visits to diagnose ed
cases of infections diseases. to impose
quarantine and release from quaran-
tine. There were $50 cases duaran-
tined.
A modern health crusade was in
in the schools of Belt, Cas-
cade and Fort Shaw. Classes for I'M
der nourished children were conducted
IN Sand toulee. Stockett and Belt by
Miss Alberta Borthwick, Cascade
county home demonstration agent.