The Republican., 1925-07-09
COUNTY HEALTH NEWS
Public Health Association Re-
views Local Activities

week in the local papers short arti-
Gle on some phase of health. If you
had collected these articles you would
now have fifty brief, timely talks on
such subjects as diphtheria immutiza-
ton, small poX vaccination, county
health centers, diet for children, care
of milk, etc. Watch for this article
in The Republican each week. Read
it, remember it. A good plan would
be to buy five cent composition book
and have one of the children cut the
article from The Republican and paste
it in the book, using the first page
of the book as an index. This should
be done as soon as the family has
completed reading the paper.
Are your children ready, from the
health standpoint, for school this fall.
During the summer you will get their
clothing ready for the coming year.
Is it not fully as important to prepare
them physically? Have their teeth
been fixed? Why allow a child to
suffer from toothache or allow his
body to become poisoned by decayed
teeth when a yearly or semi-yearly
trip to the dentist would avoid it?
Does your child have defectiveeyes {?
Sometime during the summer we hope
to have an eye clinic at which the eyes
Of school children may be examined
free and glasses obtained, at cost.
If you are interested, will you not
send the health nurse a card so that
she may notify you of the date and
place for holding the clinic?
How about tonsils and adenoids? ?
Does you child have a constant dis
charge from the nose? Is he a mouth
breather? Does he snore or rattle in
his mi y,,t when asleep? Does he take
cold easily? Does he have earache
and sore throat in winter? Is he un-
q weight, nervous and irritable? If
you answer to a majority of the above
questions is yes, take the child to a
doctor and have the tonsils examined.
If the physician says they should
1olae out, will you not send word to
the county nurse, who will call on you
and make arrangements to have the
child come to the August clinic for
the removal Of tonsils?
Are your children obeying the State
law in regard to smallpox vaccina-
ton? If a child has never been sue
cessfully vaccinated (that is, if his
vaccination has never taken sufici-
entity to leave a scar easily SEEM have
him revaccinated before the opening
Of school. If you send an un-vacci-
mated child to school this fall, the
teacher will be breaking the law if
she accepts him into the school. To
neglect this means trouble and delay
later, The Virginia Health Bulletin
for April makes this statement: "NO
one who has been recently vaccinated
can contract smallpox under any con-
ditions." There have been recent Sc
we're outbreaks of smallpox in two
neighboring States. Perhaps Mary
land will be next!
Would you like some advice in re-
gard to the care and diet of your baby
during the summer months? Let DR..
Knox, chief of the Bureau of Child
Hygiene, help you by means of his
pamphlet, which your county nurse
has for distribution.
Are you taking advantage of the
free clinics provided for you by the
State? A child health conference and
tuberculosis clinic are held each
month. Watch this paper for date
and location.
Are you planning to send some
good cast-off clothing to the Near
East? Will you give US the opportu-
nifty Of showing you how badly it is
needed in Garrett county? We now
have a room on the second floor of the
Court House equipped with clothes
rack and a cupboard made of orange
boxes for the storage of any clothing
we can collect during the summer for
winter use. We need all kinds of boys
and girls clothing, particularly un-
derwear, shoes and wraps. We do not
need ladies' hats nor mems shoes. 1t
will help US if you will see that arti-
cles donated are clean, buttons in
place, holes mended, etc. Get them
ready now We will inform you when
and where to bring them later,
Your health nurse, Beulah Wied
man, will be glad to help you in any
way possible in regard to the above,
or any other health problems. Please
phone her at 132-W, or write her at
Oakland.
GARRETT co. P. H. ASSOCIATION
William Ewing, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
William Ewing, of Mountain Lake