The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1931-04-23
TWO COUNTY POSITIONS
NOT PROVIDED FOR In LEVY
No Appropriation Is Made For
Public Health Nurse and Home
Demonstration Agent
DETAILED REPORT GIVEN

That no appropriations have been
made for the offices of Public Health
Nurse, and Home Demonstration
Agent, and that these positions auto
Inatically cease to exist about June l.,
is shown in a detailed report Of the
Garrett county levy for Garrett coun-
ty for the year 1881, which is printed
in another section of The Republican.
The expenses for the county agent
were also cut to minimum, the levy
for the cooperative laboratory at
Cumberland entirely eliminated, and
other reductions made. The levy for
county commissioners increased from
$2,950 to $4,000, and an additional
$3.50 was levied for expenses for the
States attorney, making the total
levy for his Office $2,250.
With the elimination of public
health service and extension service
among the women and girls of the
county, the county brings to a close
a period Of development among the
rural communities, the attempt to
raise the standard of health, and it is
said will hinder to very great ex-
tent the social service work among
the needy of this vicinity.
Health Work Began in 1922
Health work began in the county in
1922, and the records during the en-
suing years including the present
year shows the amount and character
of work that has been done including
decrease in communicable diseases,
and increasing of school attendance.
The work included free child welfare
clinics, dental clinics, pre-school elm
les, mental clinics, eye clinics, Grip
pied children's clinics, tuberculosis
clinics, and health classes, visits to
schools, visits to homes, where infor-
nation necessary to health was dis
pensed free of charge to hundreds of
people, hospital care for sufferers,
and placing of orphans in number of
homes at no cost to the taxpayers.
Since health work began SO have
been treated for tuberculosis, 1,483
received the toxin-antitoxin treatment
for diphtheria, which makes those re-
ceiving the treatment immune for
life; 214 have been examined in ortho-
pedic clinics for cripples, thirty per-
cent of whom received surgical cor
rections of the county and the Mary
land League for Crippled children;
and hundreds have had free examina-
tions at the various other clinics
where they were informed of their de-
fects and suggestions made as to their
correction.
A report for the past year shows
that the health nurse at Kitzmiller
made 1852 home visits and IA school
visits, while the nurse at Oakland
made 1914 home visits and 113 school
visits. During the past winter AZ
families were furnished food and
clothing, donated by organizations,
and distributed by the health nurse
to deserving ones after close in
vestigation of her part.
Demonstration Agent
The home demonstration agent be-
gan work in the county about 1924
and her work during this time con-
sisted in the formation of home
makers clubs, girls All clubs, etc.,
and the development of the home in
teaching planning of homes, furnish
ing of homes, dessmaking, canning,
cooking, sewing, and other project
work. Work of this nature has given
women of the county trips to College
Park, Md; Springfield, Mass, Wash
ington, D. c., and the winning of
other honors.