Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1936-12-10
Typhoid Outbreak
Curbed By Prompt
Action OF Board
Health Department Stresses
Need For Diphtheria
InOculatiOns

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DR.. v. L. Ellicott, county health
Officer, has made complete report
LOT county, health activities for the
month Of November. His statement
follows:
beg to submit the following re-
ort Of the Health Department for the
month Of November 1886.
Especial effort was made to con-
troll small outbreak of typhoid fever
which occurred in Metropolitan
Grove, a small community near
Gaithersburg. Six cases occurred at
this place in addition to one death
from possible typhoid. The cause Of
the outbreak will probably never be
found though the investigation has
not been finished. Of the forty-five
persons in the nine families in the
Grove, all have received three pre-
ventive NEGOTIATIONS against typhoid
fever, these being given by the
Health Officer in the homes and in
the school. Mr.. Douglas Diamond,
owner of the nearby farm, has kindly
donated lumber for building sanitary
privies for all properties in the COM
munity. With this help and with w.
P. A. labor, the cost to the residents
is only $3.50 apiece. Construction is
beginning now. The Education De-
partment has reconditioned the school
pump.
The continued prevalence Of diph-
liberia in the area between Derwood
and Redland has given further proof
for the necessity for toxoid inocula-
lions. Nearly all the school children
of this area have been inoculated but
the failure of parents to take their
infants and preschool children to
their doctors or to clinics for this
health precaution have allowed fur
Their cases to occur.
In the Suburban area of the
County the tuberculosis Christmas
seals were mailed on November IA,
the same day on which they were
mailed in Washington. Seals for the
rest of the county were mailed on
November 81. The money from the
sale of these seals is used to finance
the chest clinic Of the County and
the tuberculosis work of the Health
Department nurses. Twenty-Five per-
cent is used for statewide work, five
persons for the wor kof the National
Association and the remainder for
Montgomery county.
"A case of tuberculosis recently
occurred in person from West Vir-
ginia who had been in Montgomery
County three months. According to
regulations ertaining to residence,
she coul dnot be admitted to the
State sanatoria of Maryland and has
had to be kept in local hospital.
This case illustrates the need Of
facilities for the care of nonresident
patients. tuberculosis is a COM
municable disease and the non-
resident patient is just as dangerous
to the community as others.
Montgomery County is making quite
satisfactory progress in developing
its program in the establishing Of
additional clinics. In addition to the
. Rockville clinic, the Damascus clinic
which opened in July is continuing
} satisfactorily. The colored clinic u
Operated by DR.. Sewell in Wheaton
} has now increased its attendance TO
: twenty persons per week. The clinic
lin the Silver Spring County Building
will open on December 14th.
Southern Medical Association
Members of the County Health
Department attended meetings Of the
Health Section Of the Southern Medi-
Ical Association in Baltimore Novem-
her II to 10. One Of the Health Do
partment nurses, Mrs. Troy, read .
paper on "LAy Participation In q
County Program" before the Public
Health Nursing Section.
The dental clinic Il still being held
-four days q week IN the basement OF
, the Rockville High School The plan
of having the clinic dentist, DR..
, sharpley, visit the schools and select
the clinic children is working very
, well. A separate report of the dem
tai clinic will be prepared monthly