Henderson daily dispatch. (Henderson, N.C.) 1914-1995, 1937-04-21
Henderson Daily Dispatch
Report Shows Conditions
OF Health In The County
No Epdemics of Contagion in Past Quarter; Tubercu
losis Work Pushed; PREM ata Clinics Held; Santa
ton Program Is Push ed in All Quarters

during last six months of life. Skin
test on children of these families all
gave a two to four plus reaction.
The local health department put
much stress on syphilis during these
months and our office clinics were
increased from about 80 treatments
in December to 143 in March. Many
housewives are now joining us and
sending their domestic help for blood
test. All public food handlers are test
ed.
The continual rainy weather during
January and February, with many
impossible roads, slowed down all
rural work of the entire health de-
partment. So that our school exami-
nation were not completed until
March. There were $40 children ex-
amined from the first three grades,
u percent of these were practically
free of defects, % percent had major
defects mostly of tonsils. or teeth or
the combined.
The well-baby clinic for colored has
become we'll established with one cen
ter for the county; held in Henderson
under the medical supervision of DR..
S. M. Bvckford, colored physician.
We have an average attendance of
25. All new ones are given an i'm
munizing dose of toxoid.
The colored prenatal clinic is well
attended, practically all cases under
midwife supervision are gotten into
the clinic at least once. We have from
eight to nine new cases each month
A wassermann is part of the routine
examination and about 20 percent of
them are positive. We have had no
miscarriages or still births with
mothers who have taken treatment.
Only one having positive wassermann
would not come in for treatment. She
had a still birth
The local board of health at it's
regular February meeting passed
three countrywide health ordinances
effective date of April 1. These new
ordinances will give the health de-
partment better control of fly and
mosquito breeding places and for
abatement of nuisances caused by
pig-pens and COW stables.
A complete sanitary survey and
rating was made of all schools in the
county during this quarter, white
schools all rate B or better There are
many small colored schools that are
not possible in a sanitary rating.
All tourist homes of the county had
their first official inspection and rat
grades, only two below seventy and
these were. closed up until renovated.
The sanitary privy program is con-
tinuing as usual. On account of small
number of PWtA laborers our program
is slow.
Our largest retail milk plant is
selling only pasturized A Grade milk.
We are working on plans to have
other milk pasturiZed and have Hen
derson on the milk honor roll.
Plaus and schedules were made for
holding pre-school clinics beginning
April 2, and lasting through four
weeks.
Flans also were discussed and eff
forts begun to have an "orthopedic
clinic" for cripple children establish
ed in Henderson.
The dcpal .j1ent nurses worked the
county with a view of establishing
a white prenatal clinic. All pre-
natals found were already under a
private physician or induced to place
themselves under their family ply
sici1n eliminating the need of a white
prenatal clinic.
The local newspaper is very help
full in getting health instruction be-
fore the public and gladly prints all
articles handed in by the health de-
partment. We publish one to two ar
tees each week, as an effort toward
public health education.