The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-01-28
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GOVERNOR REVEALS GREAT
INCREASE In HEALTH WORK

Activities of the Maryland Depart
ment of Health were greatly extend
ed during the year just past due to
the impact of industrial and military
expansion in Maryland, Governor
Herbert r. O'Conor has made known
following receipt of a requested re-
port from the Maryland State De-
partment of Health covering the
year, 1913.
Foremost among the new activities
undertaken was the development OF
water supply and sewerage facilities
in connection with the greatly ex-
banded military establishments in
The State.
Many of the already overtaxed mu-
nicipal water and sewerage systems,
he made known, had to be extended
and enlarged to serve war-connected
projects. In some instances, entirely
new facilities were constructed.
Many war-housing project sites
we're investigated by the sanitary en-
gineers of the Department in the in
crest of sanitary facilities. Further,
the project for malaria control in
war areas was intensified in areas
adjacent to military establishments,
chiefly in Montgomery Prince
Georges, Charles and St. Mary's
Counties.
At the new cambridge Naval
Training Station at Port Deposit, and
in the Metropolitan area of Balti-
more City adjacent to the lower por
ton of the Patapsco River, exhaus-
i've studies were made to formulate
workable postwar plan for the
complete elimination of all industrial
wastes and sanitary sewage now
eaching the river from Ellicott City
downstream to and including Balti-
more City. A tentative plan has been
formulated, Gov O'Conor declared,
md the project can be achieved i'm
nediately the critical materials are
available.
In addition to the epidemic of
grippe in the last two months of 1913
he report showed an increase of 800
asses of tuberculosis over the 1912
-otal, the Governor made known,
while epidemic meningitis cases re-
ported were more than double the
previous year, going from SO to 100
cases.
Marked decreases were shown for
the year in typhoid fever and in diph-
iberia, the Governor said. while there
was also slight decrease noted in
The number of cases of syphilis re-
ported.
In connection with a program for
The control of venereal diseases there
we're 1905 clinic sessions held in the
counties, and great improvement has
been made in clinical facilities.
The program for crippled children,
which has received every possible
consideration from the State Health
authorities, the Governor said, con-
inued to extend complete service to
rippled and handicapped children
Of the State. Forty-nine clinics were
leld in the counties during the year
With an attendance of 2,239 children.
OF particular interest in this con-
lection, Governor O'Conor said, was
he large number of handicapped
Dung people who have been rehabili-
ated and are now employed in de-
ense plants. This was done, he said,
through the splendid cooperation of
he two crippld children's hospitals
nd' the efficient services of surgeons
Ind physicians, plus cooperat o n
rom the Rehabilitation Division of
he State Department of Education