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SSUNDAY, ‘DECEMBER 30, 1928.
i o S e e
losing r:i Demonstration
ommorrow Recells Se
ries of Health Devel- i
opments Made in
Athens and Clarke
- ~ County
- (Continued trom page one.)
ave, up to th's time, visited each
city school each morning; in 7529
the smaller nursing stalf wll
isit each school twice a week, or
ftener if possible. When a sore
hroat looks as if it might mean
iphther'a, the nurse takes a
“culture,”—a scraping from the
throat—which is prompt'y sent to
the laboratory to see if diphthe
ria germs are actual'y present.
‘Wnenever the child shows signs
of ‘llness the nurse sends h'm|
home, and if it looks like one that
s contagious, she also rounds up
his brothers and sisters and gets
them safely out of their class
rooms, =As soon as possible—us.
ually the same day— she visits
the home-to. urge the mother to(
ca'l a dector if she has not already
done sO. -~As soon as the doctor
or the health oificer has decided
that the disease is communicable,
the nurse goes back to quarantine
the homé and teach the family
how to avoid the spread of in
fect'on.” The mnext morning at
school she © hunts up the best
friends’ of ‘the sick children and
warns the teacher to watch them
with special care., When quaran
tine has’run its course the nurse
goes back (often after a number
of v'sitis dur'ng the il'ness) to re
ease the family and show them
how to disinfect the sick room.
Pompt action of this sort shows
esults. Athens had a measles
er'dem’c in the winter of 1923-
I§. Accord'ng so genera! ex
perience, there should have been
_another three years later. But it
didn’t happen. There has not
been a death from measles since
1924. Like other communicable
diseases, measles spreads from A
to B and from B to C and so on.
Jn 1928, ‘'when a number of cases
wereé brought in from out of
town, A gave ‘t to B, but it stop
ed there, There was not one s‘n
gle case known to the health of
jcer i which B passed it on to
C. B
“'Check Diphtheria
Diphtheria, too, has been held
in check. More than 3,600 ch'l
dren have been made immune by
toxin-amtitoxin in the last five
. years—and this includes only chil
‘dren ‘noculated by the hea'th of
ficer, not count'ng those treated
by the &p physicians. Near'y
half otfiJ e children in Clarke
county under ten years of aee. it
is estimated, are now protected
aga'nst dg)é‘-xtherla. There have
been only Bbven deaths from this
disease #m the ‘'ast five years,
The health officer’s first line of
Jefense “zagainst the contagious
d'seasegapfaaty Idhood is the dai'y
watchfu'ness of the nurses in
school and home., Clarke county
has. however, cut its nursing ser
vice one-half.
Health: ~examinaticns for school
children, recognized everywhere
as a cormer-stone of good health
work, were bezun in Athens be.
fore the demonstrat'on, There
have been two ‘mportant changes
in . the “last’ five years, however.
Working alone, the hea'th officer
had at first to make a very brief
inspection of children. S'nce 1924
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the health officer and the staff
physician 'of the demohstration
‘have shared the task. Examina.
tions have ‘been so planned - that
the chil@’s parent cou!d bhe pres
ent, parents are urged to come,
and when the mother ‘s at hand
the examination becomes a real
health conference, with plenty of
t'me for hér to ask why Bobbie
has so many- sniffly colds, or
what ought to be done about
Mary’s breakfasts, and plenty of
time for the doctor to make it
plain just what - those enlarged
tonsi's may do if they are not
taken care of. For 1929 the
Board of Education has voted to
provide part-time medical agsist.
ance for the health nificer go that
this very helpful type 0I exami
nation can be cont'nued.
The second change again brings
in the nurses. When there -was
on'y one school nurse for the
who'e county she could do only a
little of this and a little of that.
When there was a full staff it was
possible for the nurses to make a
business of call'ng at the child’s
home when - -the examination
showed that part‘cular medical or
dental work was needed, and
calling again nad again to per
suade an indifferent mother, ‘f
need be, or to help a hard-pinched
one like Mrs. Terry -to get the
work done. This has been an im
portant factor ‘n getting “defects”
attended to, and the nurses’ ef
forts, with those of the examining
physicians and teachers, arc
largely ref'ected in the fact that
during the last five years the rec
ords show 265 children who have
had their eyes f'tted w'th glasses,
315 who have had tounsils cared
for, 2,290 who have had tee's
fixed. ;
In this matter of removing chil
dren’s handicaps another impor
tant change has come about as a
part of Atheans’ growing heaith
service, Before 1924 there was
orly a very sketchy ont-patient
service at the Athens Gereral
Hospital. In that year a nuinher
of physicians joined together to
establish regular clinic hours and
services for those unable to pay
the fees for pr'vate care, Th's
out-patient department has be
come more and more useful, and
now cares for 925 persons of all
ages in a single year. Ten free
beds for white children and ten
for colored children are a'so avail
able for youngsters like Millle
when they need hosp'tal care,
| Everyone agrees that it is a
good thing to care for the health
of school children, but why wait
till a boy or girl is six or seven
before getting h'm wel! started on
the road to a sound body? Athens
believes in starting early—in fact,
before the baby is born. Out of
every five bab'es born in Clarke
county in the f'rst ten months of
this ~ year, two were born to
mothers who had some help from
the nurses either in getting ready
for the baby’s coming or in the
hard and perp'exing f'rst days
after it came, Th's means that
mothers who were slow in calling
a doctor for parental care were
visited and urged to take this
most important step, that mothers
who had had many babies and
thought they knew all about it
, were nevertheless helped to easier
{ and safer ways -of carng for
ithemse!ves and the youngsters—
! one of them, the nurse reports,
| stuck to the new ways “in the
face of the jeers of her family”—
that mothers in dirty and crowd
led and unsanitary homes were
made more comfortable and the
babies were given a better chance.
Some 8,000 vis‘ts of this . sort,
dur'ng the past five years, have
bulked large in helping Athens
| mothers through the critical time
| which, in th's not too civil‘zed
! country, has accounted for too
| much suffering and needless
| deaths. _ e
I About two-thirds of all the col
[ ored babies, in Clarke county, ave
born with the help” of m.dwives
instead of doctors. Before the
demonstration these colored wo:
men were required only to regis.
ter their names and addresses,
sand no one knew what sort of
UNIVERSITY ISSUES MAP GIVING
STATUS OF CHILD ILLITERACY
-~ - IN GEORGIA FOR YEAR 1928
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A map showing the status of'
child illiteracy in Georgia in 1928
has been prepared by the office
of Dr. J. S. Stewart, professor of
secondary educat'on in the Uni
versity of Geergia.
Accompanying the map the fol
low'ng statement was issued by
the University:
!In the fall of 1928 the Univer
sity Items printed a map of Geor
g'a showing the number of chil
dren between 10 and 18 in each of
the counties, were ‘lliterate, ac
cording to the school census of
1923,
“The 1928 school census has
just been issued by the State De
partment of Education in a bu'le
tin prepared by Dr. G. G. Sin
gleton, . We have made, accord
ing to promise, the above showing
the 1928 status of child illiteracy
in each county.
“There were 3,049 white illiter
ates in 1923. In five years the
state has reduced this number by
706, or 23 percent., There were
care they were giving. Some of
them had the happy habit of
warming ‘n their own mouths the
water which they then gave ther
babies to drink. At the stiggestion
of the Medical Society the state
passed a law giving health off'-
cers ‘the right to superv'se these
‘midwives, and the health oficer
and nurses. began an annnal
course ‘of training for them. Most
‘of the more active m’'dwives in
Athens have now been reached by
th's - -teaching, and ' the. chance
from dirt ‘to clean'iness and from
‘a species of witchcrait to an or
derly use of sound, simple ways
of - working has been .very strik
‘ng. At their’ own initiative the
‘women in. ‘these classes bhave
‘adopted clean white uniforms and
in 1929 they will meet again for
their - lessons ‘in a hea’'th center
and meetng room set -aside for
the'r nse in the city hall.
] Not Too Young
The baby in arms is ,not .too
young to come within the reach of
good public health work, The
demonstration helped the hea'th
department, in 1924, to beg'n reg
w'ar health ' conferences for ba
bies and young children up to s'x
vears of age, These have been
held at health centers inm school
houses and churches throughout,
the . city ‘and county. About 170
babies dess than a year old, and
about 600 .children between one
and six, have been brought to the
demonstration phys‘ciaps. each
THE BANNER-HERZLD, ATHENS, GEBORGIA.
12,383 negro ‘Literates in 1923.
Th's has: been reduced in five
years by 5,226, or 42 percent. This
is making progress by a reduction
of one-third in five years, leav'ng,
however, 9,500 children who can
not read.
“This map tells its owp story.
Examine it and see what counties
are most vig lant and which seem
to let the compu'sory attendance
law be of little eflect.
“The 1930 U. S. census is only
a year off. Will not a 4 agenc'es
unite to reduce child illiteracy in
the'r respective counties during
1929? We owe it to these neg
lected children and to the good
name of our state to do our best,
Our superintendent phoned us to
day, ‘Yes, I see we have 16 cases
left. We have the names and we
will be 100 percent literate next
year, Our campaign starts the
first of the year.’ That is the
right attitude towards w'p'ng out
chi'd iliteracy, which will in time
reduce adult ill'teracy.”
vear ‘n these health centers,'
Many have come but once, but
some have come repeatedly. No
sick children were cared for atl
these centers, but well children
have had the advantage of pains
taking advice to their mothers’
about such important quest ons as
when to begin g yving the baby
pot-liquor as we!l as milk, and
what to do about spinach and sun
baths, and wnat little {signs—un
noticed by the mother, perhaps—
pant to the nced of a doctor's
care in order to save the child
from an unnecessary weakness or
hand cap. This service is- to be
continued in one free health cen
ter for those unable to pay, and
in the o fires of Athens doct) 8
for those wh> can pay all or a
part of the cost. After the talk
wth the physician, if thera is
need of further teaching at home,
the nurse ca'ls and helps to ex.
plan just how to cook that ce
real, or how Jack’s tonsils can be
cared for, or how to give the baby.
a sunbath.
I The nurseés, in fact, bob up all
through the hea'th story. Small
wonder, when they have made
' more than 48,000 visits to Clarke
county homes during these five
years—teaching health, shownsg
mothers and grandmothers and
daughters like M llie how to make
the'r sick folks more comforta
ble, urging reluctant parents to
see the doctor or the dentist, te'l
ing this, that, or the other health
| worker the facts he needs to
know about a particular fami'y,
tof‘re ch ‘dren to and from the
hospital, smoothing the way to the
isanatorium for tuberculosis pat
jents or supervising their care at
| home, watch'ng those who have
contagous diseases and protect
‘ing their families and neighbors
from infeltion, constantly making
a comman ty “program’ a live.
everyday real'ty in families rich,
poor, and in between. Services
like these have taken the nurses
into one home out of every three
in Clarke county each year.
! Th's is by no means all of the
health story. But it is safe to
say that the changes sketched
here have something to do w'th
the fact that ONLY ONE WHITE
P U i) UNDTR FIFTEEN YEARS
OF AGE DIES IN ATHENS FOR
| FVFRY TWO THAT DIED BE.
FORE THE NEW WORK BE
CAN. Here are the figures—for
' the four years preceding the dem
' onstration (the longest period for
| which accurate figures are on
“rec~crd) the average number of
weathe among whte children un
der 15 was 34 per year. For the
last five years—l 7 per year. Pub
| I'c health progress pays.
The health officer carries on.
His inspectors and laboratory
worker, the health educator and
i her co'ored assistant, the oral hy
gienist, all.carry on. The den
[tists and the doctors carry on,
| The nurses carry on too—as well
as a s'x-cylinder eng’ne can wita
| three cv.inders missing.. Clarkc
| county likes the idea of keep'ng
| children alive and healthy,
eet I
I CARDIGAN SUITS
{ Palm Beach showings empha
size the popularity of the card.
gan suit. Ones uit of blue kasha
| with its skirt fitted to hipline an?
. then flaring, has a cardigan made
; of three shades of blue strired
l crosswise,
Health Inspector H. B. Hodgson
wants peoplé not to buy unin
spected meats, He -states that
several instances of perscns buy
ing contaminated meat have been
reported to him recently. The
law requires that all meats sold
in Athens be inspected and. pur
chasers of meats are warned
against buying any that has not
teen inspected and stamped. Mr.
Hodgson states.
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TAFFETA BODICE |
The use of two materials in
evening frocks grows apace, The
bouffant tulle or lace frock may
have its bodice of faillg taffeta .n
matching “shade, with a sweet
voke or sheulder straps of the
more fragile fabric,
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ATHENS Store Hours—B:3o to 6:00 . GEORGIA.
Phone 1400 Clayton St. at Wall Phone 1400
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? MAY all the manifold bless
/fine;w ings of good health, good luck
g and good cheer make 1929 a
Yea;r > banner year jJor you and yours.
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