Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1923-07-27
CHANBLISS DEFENDS
WORK DONE BY BOARD
Schools and Communities Organ
lied as Units In Anti-MaIaria
Campaign
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erature distributed; visits made;
specimens examined; typhoid vac
cine given; vaccinations; hook
worm treatment; sanitary privies
installed; inspections made; school
children examined; defects found;
defects corrected.
1--WE have taken the sum total
in number of all of the above made
for one month, that is typhoid Sc
runs given vaccinations, lectures,
etc, and we call the sum total
tricks and find that with the ap-
preparations made for this work in
the various counties that it costs
Dougherty county approximately
5Oc to do trick, Clark county APP
proXimately SO cents per trick done
and Sumter county only 8 cents to
do the same trick. Therefore we
feel that the results gotten COM
pare most favorably with any at a
much less cost.
For instance, in 1921 up to this
date there has occurred in Sumter
county, eleven cases of typhoid
fever. In 1922 to this date four
cases. 1928, 1 case. To estimate
the cost of case Of typhoid fever
at 100000 which is too low, con-
sidering lost time and expenses the
county saved $1,000 in 1922 over
1921 and this year $4,000 has been
saved over 1922. The average
physician charges a minimum Of
S!.OO to administer typhoid vac
cine. During this year the Com
missioner of Health has administer
ed to date seI enteen hundred and
seyenty-siX doses of typhoid vac
cine at dollar a dose, would alone
practically pay his salary of 81 500.
Besides this, 2,871 school chill
dren have been examined with
1888 found defective, these defects
include teeth, eye, ear throat trou-
bles, hook worm, malaria heart and
kidney troubles, ETC., 373 visits
have been made to schools, public
buildings etc, pertaining to the
health of the community and 81
lectures given this year already.
Americas has put on a house. to
house canvass and an active cam
paign against malaria. Leslie.
Plains, DeSoto our largest towns
3 of the county have also put on this
house to house canvass for mos
quito breeding places and are max
ing an effort to eliminate breeding
places for radius of one mile
each. This work is most crafty
ing for the results gotten Millions
and billions of wiggletaifs have
been destroyed in this city. The
schools and churches of our coun
ty have ben organized to free
themselves Of malaria within a ra-
dius of one mile from each building.
When this work is completed we are
ready then to begin the drainage
projects of the ponds, etc, after
which follows a clean home county
and town. The results are very
very gratifying and we are receiv-
ing hearty cooperation which il
very necessary, from the people of
the county at large.
We have nlosGuitoes, our work.
was begun late; we cannot elm
mate Sumter county of malaria
overnight, but with your co-opera-
ton, malaria and mosquitoes will
take the same course that typhoid
fever and smallpox has taken. 1t
would have been useless to have
begun, by draining the ponds and
trying to surmOunt the big noun
tains before first cleaning around
our own doors, as the result would
have been disappointing and would
have thrown a damper on the work.
Mosquitoes breed near us and it is
those that do the majority of the
harm. We find yet daily places
within stones throw of of habita-
tions breeding mosquitoes and our
time can be we'll spent this season
as it is now spent Kidding ourselves
of these place. Keep your eye open
destroy them, and we are bound to
wini
The Sumter county Commits