Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1946-09-19
HEALTH DEPT.
NEWS

NE WO
Ear clinics may be re-establish-
ed in Montgomery County shortly,
if plans discussed by DR.. G. H.
Halliday, Assistant State Health
Officer, with the Health Depart
rent staff can be developed.
Physical examinations of school
children, beginning at this time,
point up the need for such clinics.
Children who are having difficulty
in hearing are discovered through
tests by means of an audiometer.
They are referred to specialists for
care when this expense is not
beyond their means. If it is, they
are referred to ear clinics. When
defects cannot be corrected by
medical or surgical means the
children may be taught lip-read-
ing.
The Parents of children enter
ing Poolesville school for the first
tine this year were invited to
bling their children for a pro-
school physical examination last
Friday. Each parent received a
personal invitation and school
tusses transported parents and
children. The response was en-
couraging to teachers and Health
Department staff, who have known
that if such a precedent could be
established it would go a long
way toward developing better CO.
operation between school, parent,
child, and the Health Department
staff. DIR. Albert X. Yohn was the
clinician, assisted by Mrs. Mary
Hawkes., Public Health Nurse for
that area.
Vision testing of the little folks
was more successful than had
been anticipated, and everyone
agreed that the presence of
parents aided in securing CO.
operation of the children. Miss
Julia Foley,R. NJ, a school nurse
employed by the Board of Educa-
ton, carried out vision tests which
are usually considered little too
complicated for very young child
rem. The discovery through this
means that one child was not only
left-handed, but also "left-vision-
3D." will make school life easier for
both child and teacher. Teachers
assisted with vision testing, weigh
ing, and measuring. A motion
picture on the purpose of preschool
testing was run during the after
noon for the benefit of parents.
For the first time since war end
ed,the national nursing associa-
tions of this country are holding
their biennial meeting next week
at Atlantic City. Among those
from Montgomery County who are
attending are DR.. and Mrs. v. L.
Ellicott, Mrs. Dorothy Vane, r. M,
Mrs. Ruth Rokahr, R. M, Miss
Sadie Gladwin, R. H., Director of
Public Health Nursing, and Mrs.
G. S. Duvall, Jr., Chairman of the
Public Health Lay Council. Mrs.
Duvall and DR.. Ellicott are speak |
ers on the program.
DR.. Paul Ollie, Health Officer of
Toulouse, France, visited the
Health Department last week to
secure information about the bed
side nursing service demonstration
in this County. He is spending
six months in the United States,
making study of this type of
service, which tends increasingly /
to be combined with the pre-
ventive, public health nursing ser
vice.
Rat-proofing of public build
ings, and help with rat extermina-
ton in public property is demand
ing the full time and facilities of
Howard Derrick, the one man as /
signed to this work by the De-
these days. Lack of
time has made it necessary for
him to limit this service to COM
mercial properties.
DIR. v. l.. Ellicott met with the
Committee on Administrative
Practice of the American Public
Health Association in Ann Arbor,
Michigan, last week.