Ottawa County news. (Port Clinton, Ohio) 1931-1956, 1954-03-19
TB GROUP HOLDS
annual. DINNER

elecCeQ president Oh Jne OTTAWA
County tuberculosis and Health
Association at the annual dinner
meeting Monday night in Oak
Harbor Methodist church, attend
ed by approximately 20 members
who received comprehensive re-
port of the Associations work in
the past year, and were given a
forward look to coming expecta-
tionS.
Other new officers named were
Earl Wiseman, Port Clinton, vice
president; Mrs. Wayne Friderici,
Port Clinton, secretary; Mrs. Rob-
ert Bender, Oak Harbor, treasur-
er; Mrs. George Peters, Oak Har-
Dor, representative director; and
Mrs. George Orwig, Oak Harbor,
alternate representative.
introduced as new directors
were Mrs. Marvin Lundgard, Mrs.
Ann Bolte, Earl Wiseman, Mrs. G.
E. Pehrson, Port Clinton; Mrs.
Dwight Gould, Martin; George
Brandow, Elmore; Mrs. Otto Ro-
zine, Elmore; and Mrs. Harold
Rohloff, Elmore.
1858 seal sale was $6,181.80 as
compared to $5,527.21 last year,
the annual report showed. So per-
cent of appeal letters were re-
turned with a contribution.
The case finding program, in
which free chest xrayS are provid-
ed by the Association, reached
even greater Importance this year
and by April 1 the overall cost
will approximate $4,000. Six in
dustrial and five public surveys
were provided, as we'll as for all
senior students, all athletes, and
all school personnel. AS health
nurse Audrey Telep pointed out,
the surveys have been invaluable
not only in detecting tuberculosis
but also in giving warning of other
chest conditions, cardiac maladies,
and even detecting hitherto unsus-
pected curvature of the spine. A
total of 1851 x-rays were taken in
the mass survey, and Al readings
reported suspected tuberculosis.
During 1858, 10 Ottawa county
patients received care at Oak
Ridge Sanitarium, and as of March
/, 1854, there were six local pa
tents there There were 35 home
patients.
But the work of the Association
does not stop with the patients
admission to the sanitarium. Mrs.
Sylvia Nakrin, rehabilitation chair
man, presented an absorbing pic
ture of the groups work to keep
up the morale of the tubercular
patient, and its efforts to restore
him to normal life. She will head
new occupational therapy COM
mittee which in the fall will pre-
sent recommendations for the pol
icy on provision, distribution and
cost of crafts to Oak Ridge pa
tients. The demonstration project
in which Ottawa county shares,
which has provided the services of
Gordon Henderson as patient SER
vice director, will be continued
until OptOhar 15 1Q55
Mrs. George Peters, reporting
for the state and national TB and
health, pointed out that 1879 out of
every 100000 population in Ohio
died of tuberculosis in 1852. 81
percent of the funds collected here
go to the state and federal TB
groups.
Ottawa county will sponsor en-
tertainment in May for Oak Ridge
patients, and will provide five mo-
vieS.
The Associations health educa-
ton program, through which a
wide variety of health material
was made available to all schools
in the county, was discussed by
Mrs. Gretchen Claus, whose fine
services as executive secretary
have made the Ottawa county or
ganiZation one of the leading
groups in the state. Between IL
and Is hundred pieces of material
were examined, and a committee
of 35 teachers had special
screening" assemblage at Carroll
school to pick out the most effec.
tive. A display of some of the ma
terial was arranged Monday night
The program will be continued for
at least another year.
Mrs. Claus pointed out that the
states appropriation for TB con
troll is $184,000 this year as com
pared to $285, 900 in 1850 and is
expected to shrink to $4,000 next
year This will mean greater en-
phasis On work for volunteer or
CARNATIONS, she stated.
Speaking briefly were county
sanitarians Lyle Kibbel and Davis
while county commissioner Char
les Cover and Sanke Bahnsen also
were introduced.
Is Your Life" Saturday night. AS
shiny" is the father of one ot