Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-06-26
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\OOHllnlC0 OIl NteSS CAANrV
school children in the county by DR..
Postal cards were mailed to IT,
Payne and out of 272 families 81
families there were 657 school chill
families had malaria. In these, 272
dren who had lest LAG days from
malaria. The cost from loss OF
time, medicine, doctors, etc, is con-
servatively estimated by DR.. Payne
at s2,464.
Here's summary of the work
done by the health department III
Che county the first five months of
this year:
Health Bulletins Distributed 1885
School Children Examined --..213S
Number of Defectice Chill
ufen ---~-.--------------- l. az
Total number Of. Defects =, 1889
Complete Anti Typhoid Vac
cinations .--..--.-.---...------ 864
Doses Of Anti Rabic Virus 15a
Capsules containing quinine
distributed through local
DRUGGISTS ..-.-.. $4,000
These AZ, 600 capsules with the adj
dition to coco-quinine represents
1000 standard treatment for
malaria prevention or elimination.
The average cost to the patient
for three doses of typhoid vaccina-
lions is So. The health department
gave 1854 treatments constituting 3
inoculations each that did not cost
the patient one cent.
The health department gave l59
free rabic virus doses which would
have cost the patient 81 each.
1t examined 2,138 school children
free. Had a reputable physician
been called in to do this the cost
would have been 81 to $3.50 each
examination.
At request or on their own init
ative about 100 separate places OF
sections have been inspected by Dr.
Payne to locate the source Of ma
laria propagation. In each instance
DR.. Payne has shown how to control
where elimination was not immedi-
ately possible.
Conservative estimates secures
| from reputable physicians show that
malaria is decreasing in the county
Where there were four cases 81
malaria in 1922, there is only one
case this year, a decrease Of rs pei
cent.
A great deal Of malarial work wa:
| done last year by DR.. Chambliss, anC
/ yet the physicians conseryativel3
figure that there is a decrease Of 81
per cent this year as compared witt
last.
"The change in the mental att
tude Of the people of the county i
most astounding. AT first we foun(
opposition to drainage, to screening
and to the taking of the necessary
! amounts of quinine,' said DR.. Cham
bliss. To-day the people on The
farms can not afford to drain, which
is expensive, but they are screening
their homes, cleaning up the breed
ing places and more than 1000 com
plete standard malaria treatments
have actually been taken.
To-day we have less malaria il
Sumter county than ever before
Some of the physicians figure the d.
crease as high as go per cent, buf
that's too high I fear.
eff we make normal cotton croI
this year, thus placing our farmer
| in financial shape to ditch and drain
Ithen you will see drainage and elm
Ination work get under way in amost
comprehensive and extended way
said DR.. Chambliss.
| DR.. Payne, in his address to the
club spoke of the necessity of civ
ing the facts regarding malaria tc
the people of the county. "There is
no use in our hiding these facts
from the public" he said. IF VIC
are to eliminate malaria we must
educate the people of the county.
"Some men have criticised us for
giving these facts publicity. We
aren't fooling anybody but ourselves
Statistical information of number Of
cases of malaria, of typhoid, Of hook
worm is available to investors at the
office of the state board of health
They also are on file at the Federal
board Of health and in the offices
Of the United States Chamber OF