The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-08-13
COMMISSIONERS APPOINT
COUNTY HEALTH OFFICER
DIR. George E. Clarke To Devote
full Time to Public Health Ser
vice, Beginning September l
HAS HAD WIDE PRACTICE

HAS HAD WIDE FRAC1ACE
That DIR. George E. Clarke, of
Washington, D. c., had been ap-
pointed full-time health officer
for Garrett county was announc-
ed yesterday by Geo. D. Brown
ing, president of the Board OF
County Commissioners. DIR.
Clarke will assume his duties on
September first and will maintain his
office in the Court House, Mr.. Brown
ing also stated.
Doctor Clarke, DIR. Joseph P. Frank
lin, deputy State Health Officer of
Cumberland, and DR.. R. H. Riley, Di-
rector of the State Department Of
Health, were in Oakland on Tuesday
comforting with the Board of Coun-
ty Commissioners where they outlined
the work of carrying on a full-time
aggressive health program. The def
mite program will be announced at a
later date.
Graduate of Illinois
DR.. Clarke is graduate OF the
University of Illinois, class Of 1919,
having received degrees in engineer
ing and medicine. He served as an
inferno in a Brooklyn IN. W hospital
for one and one-half years and from
there went to Cleveland, Ohio, where
he practiced general medicine until
1929. Five years of this period was
with the health department of that
city as an assistant in contagious dis
eases. He also had charge of clinics
covering prenatal cases, tuberculo-
sis, vaccination and and other work in
his profession. For the past two years
DR.. Clarke has been medical officer OF
the food and drug administration in
Washington, D. c., which is operated
by the Federal Government.
II sincerely hope that I will receive
hearty cooperation in the health pro-
gram which will be inaugurated in
this county the first Of September"
Dr.. Clarke said in an interview with
a Republican representative. my
work and that of the health nurses
who will assist me, will be in con-
junction with the practicing physi-
clans of the county, and not in compe-
tition with them. My work will con-
sist in managing clinics Of various
kinds, in preventing epidemics and in
the spread of contagious diseases, not
in curing them or giving prescrip-
lions. The work will cover the entire
county"
DR.. and Mrs. Clarke will come to
Oakland the latter part of the present
month where they will establish their
residence.
The appointment If full-time
health officer and the continuation of
the services of the two health nurses
in the county is the result of an ar
rangement between the County Com
missioners of Garrett county and the
State Department of Health whereby
the State Department agreed to pro-
vide a full-time health officer for the
county free of expense to the tax
payers.
When the annual levy was made in
April, no provision was made for the
salaries of the health nurses, on &C.
count of the great demand by the
people for lower taxes, but the advan-
tages accruing by reason of a health
program were outlined in public
meeting held on May II, at which
many public spirited citizens who are
large taxpayers protested the discon-
tinuance of the activities of the public
health nurses, the commissioners re-
considered their decision. An agree
ment between the commissioners and
the Health Department then followed
and the result of such agreement was
concluded Tuesday as outlined above