Newspaper Page Text
EIGHT
p
dean Up! Paint Up!
Let’s Keep Our City Clean and Beautiful!
Annual City of Cairo Campaign, March 27th Thru April 22nd.
To the People of Cairo:
As Mayor of the City of Cairo, and in accordance with the authority conferred upon me by said office, I hereby proclaim the four weeks
of Monday, March 27th, thru Saturday, April 22nd, as a period for the annual Clean-Up, Paint-Up and Beautification Campaign, and 1 urge
every resident and every property owner—every man, woman and child—to extend whole-hearted co-operation toward making this the
most beneficial campaign we have ever had.
4k
Many cities have a flower show, or other events of this kind. Let us, too, have a show, an every-day show, a permanent “city beautti
f ul.” Spring brings new inspiration, the introduction of all that is new in wearing apparel, etc. Let’s get our city in tune with Easter and the
new spring season.
Inspect your premises, your ent re premises—vacant lots and all. Remove all cans, pots, junk, plunder, unsightly piles of lumber, old
automobiles, old machinery and all trash or anything that mars either the front or the rear of your premises. Particular attention must be
given to eliminating all possible mosquito-breeding places, which are frequently found where we least expect to find them. Let’s make ev
erything strictly sanitary. Merchants, give your stores a thorough cleaning, front and rear and throughout. Garagemen, dispose of all of
your rubbish. Tenants, do not depend upon your landlord. Let everybody get busy and make Cairo a BETTER PLACE to live in!
And let’s paint and repair and renovate everything that needs it. Plant flowers and shrubbery where desirable. Merchants will offer
special prices on clean-up and paint-up supplie s.
The city’s trash wagons will be at your disposal. Phone J. E. King, No. 157, and leave your instructions, when wagons do not get youn
rubbish on regular rounds. Report anything you think may be overlooked. One week will be devoted to each ward, in regular rotation]
There is no better time than N-O-W! L et there be no shirkers. LET EVERYBODY HELP!
Yours for a Cleaner, Prettier and Healthier City,
Cairo, March 23rd City of Cairo J. B. WARNELL, Mayor.
County Health
Report.
Below is the annual county
health report of Dr. H. P. Rankin,
County Health Commissioner, as
made to the March, 1939, Term
grand jury and to the County
Board of Health, of which Dr.
A. W. Rehberg is chairman and
County School Supt. W. R. Eskew
and Chairman Walter Davis, of
the County Commissioners, are
members:
Foreword.
On April 1, 1938, the Grady County
Health Department began functioning
with a full time personnel, which con
sists of a Health Commissioner, Nurse,
Sanitarian and Clerk.
The department is operating under
the minimum budget allowed by the
State Board of Health under the So
cial Security Act.
In this report is embodied a concise
and relatively complete account of the
activities of the Health Department
for the past twelve months. We feel
sure that satisfactory progress has
been made in several phases of our
work. -For instance, at the time I as
sumed direction of' this health depart
ment, Grady county led the entire
state in deaths of small children from
gaistro-intestjnal diseases. Since this
time, Grady county has dropped to
21st place on the state’s list in num
ber of deaths from this cause. No
deaths have occurred during the pres
ent year from typhoid fever, diphther
ia, or smallpox. The maternal death
rate is still too high and we plan to
concentrate on that phase of the work
during 1939. We have planned closer
supervision and weeding out, of the
unco-operative midwives in the coun
ty. We also plan to push our neWly
established maternal clinic along with
our veneral disease clinic during the
coming year.
We consider the new sewage dispos
al plant for the City of Cairo, the
re-opening of the privy construction
plant, and the establishment of our
venereal disease clinic as our outstand
ing aedompliishments of 1938.
The chart shown on the following
page shows how the Health Depart
ment operates: (Chart omitted be
cause printing here would be imprac
tical).
Activities.
Thirty-two cases of communicable
diseases were admitted to medical and
nursing service. Included in these
Were three cases of typhoid fever,
eight cases of typhus fever, and one
case of poliomyelitis. Fifty- five visits
were made to these cases by the health
officer and .nurse. Six visits were
made to rumored cases of communi
cable diseases. Eight visits were made
to one diphtheria carrier with remov
al of tonsils as final disposition of the
case.
Vaccinations and immunizations in
eluded: 338 persons vaccinated
against smallpox; 460 babies immu
nized against diphtheria; 2,156 per
sons immunized against typhoid fever, i
3 shots ea<Ai; anti-rabies treatment*
I given to two people, 21 shots each.
At the last session of Congress a
I sum of money was appropriated for
the fight against syphilis for these
reasons: 1,000,009 potential mothers
in the United States have or have had
syphilis; each year at least 60,000 ba
bies are born to die or to live handi
capped because of congenital syphil
is, and another 25,000 are horn dead;
fully 15 per cent of all blindness can
be traced to the ravages of syphilis;
over 10 per cent of all insanity is the
result of syphilis; of the 100,000 new
infections each year, 75 per cent are
in America’s young men and women
between the ages of 16 and 30; the
taxpayers lof America spent a mini
mum of $50,000,000 each year for the
institutional care of the insane, blind
and crippled victims of syphilis; and
over 100,000 deaths are caused each
year by syphilis and over 1,000,000
years of life expectancy are lost.
In relation to other diseases—this
is syphilis: 5 times more than cancer;
20 times more than tuberculosis; 50
times more than diphtheria; and 60
times more than typhoid; . . . and it is
a leading cause of diseases of the
heart and blood vessels.
In co-operation with the Federal
government and the State Board
Health, our department established a
clinic for the prevention and treat
ment of syphilis on Octber 1, 1938.
Only those patients who are unable to
pay a practicing physician are accept
ed at the clinic.
The following figures represent
three months’ clinic work: 82 admis
sions to medical and nuring service;
29 transmissions to private physic
ians; 468 clinic visits; 21 field visits
by health officer and nurse; 353 treat
ments given; (331 this year Jan. and
Feb.) total 685; and 425 blood tests
were made with 103 positive and 322
negative.
Drugs are furnished at no cost by
the State Board of Health, and the
local chapter of the American Legion
Auxiliary donated $20.00 to .the clinic
department for the purchase of equip
ment needed.
Tuberculosis Control.
Seventy new individuals were admit
ted to medical and nursing service,
101 persons were X-rayed at the 2 Phi
Mu mobile clinics; 25'visits were
made to private physicians by health
officer and nurse in the interest of tu
bercular patients; and 22 visits were
made to others for the same purpose.
Field visits made by health officer
and nurse to patients were: 52 to
cases; 57 to suspects; 109 to contacts;
19 to unclassified; making a total of
237 visits.
Office visits made by patients to
health officer and nurse were: 11 by
cases; 15 by suspects; 19 by contacts;
and 3 by unclassified; making a total
of 48 visits.
(Two persons Were sent to Alto and
56 persons wei’e dismissed from super
vision,
Twio hundred forty-five tests Were
given with 48 positives. Relief has
been secured for two tuberculosis fam
ilies thru the Welfare Department, j
We have a five-year-old white child
THE CAIRO MESSENGER, FRIDAY, MARCH 31ST, 1939.
w - »r t v, n* - •* »
“Breath Taking Ex
periments”
i
■X
X $8
bp
■:Av:a
I
x
m
‘
■
■
■___: m --
Northwestern University dental re
search scientists have perfected a
method which reveals the odor inten
sity of the breath and allows them
to name the cause. Dr. Glenn F. Sul
zer, shown in photo, who made the
studies with Drs. Leonard S. Fosdick
and Robert H. Brening, freezes a
breath sample of this pretty young
patient in liquid nitpogen (2i0 degrees
C below zero) for concentration pur
poses. Mouth odors for stat'stical
purposes are defined as pO.
at Alto who is an orphan. We have
found a home for her provided we can
get refills through the Seal Sale fund
and some A. D. C. consideration from
the Welfare Department.
We have one white male 'who is al
ready receiving refills through the lo
cal Tuberculosis Association.
During the past year we had 8 new
cases of tuberculosis reported and 7
deaths.
Maternity Service.
Prenatal: 128 cases were admitted
to medical and nursing service; 283
field visits were made to these cases;
and 34 office visits were made by
these cases.
Postnatal: 76 cases have been ad
mitted to nursing service and 172 field
visits have been made to these cases.
There are 32 midwives in the county
registered for formal instruction; 31
midwife classes have been held with
149 mid wives in attendance; 43 field
visits have been made for private in
structions to miefwives; and 17 office
visits were made by midwives for the
same purpose.
Three maternal deaths were report
ed during the first 11 months of 1938
which gives, this county a high rating
because of the small population.
In co-operation with the State Board
of Health, a maternity clinic was es
tablished in December, 1938, with the
the first clinic session held after the
new year. Equipment was furnished
by the State Board of Health. After
the clinic becomes well established a
local physician 'will be asked to take
charge of the clinic and he will be
paid a small retaining fee by the
State Department. Persons accepted
at this clinic will be those employing
a midwife to make delivery and indi
gent patients referred by Grady
county doctors. The Cairo Woman’s
Club is sponsoring this clinic and ex
pects fo furnish any other linens and
equipment not furnished by the State
Department.
Infant And Preschool Hygiene.
Infants: 171 infants were admitted
to medical and nursing service; 350
field visits were made to these in
fants; and 24 office visits were made
by the parent in the interest of these
infants.
Preschool: 122 preschool children
were admitted to medical and nursing
service; 172 field visits were made to
these preschool children; 15 office
visits; and 515 consultations were held
■with parents in the interest of their
infants tnd pre-school children.
We expect to establish a well baby
clinic early in this year and it will be
conducted along the same lines as the
Maternal Clinic. Under no circumstan
ces will any medical treatment be
given in the clinic other than vaccina
tions. Educational phase as to the
care, diet, and home hygiene will be
the larger part of the clinic work and
we expect to accomplish a great deal
through this clinic.
School Hygiene.
Eleven hundred and ninety inspec
tions were made by the health officer
and nurse; 3,198 examinations were
made by the health officer; and 2,292
children were found to have on©
more defects that can be
Written notices wbre sent to the par
ents of the defective children 'with
summary lof the defects and advising
them to carry their children to
family physician or dentist as the
case may be.
Two thousand two hundred and
twenty-seven dental inspections w T ere
made by the Grady county dentists in
co-operation with our dental health
educational program; 1,814 dental de
fects were found and their parent’s
w r ere so notified; and 22 class-room
health talks were made with 933 pu
pils in attendance.
Adult Hygiene.
One hundred and twelve food-hand
lers were examined during the year.
This examination included a blood test
for syphilis and a feces examination
for determination of typhoid carriers.
Other adult examinations included
120 Resettlement 'workers and 4-H
Club boys and girls.
Morbidity Service.
Two hundred and nine admissions to
medical and nursing service; 33 field
were made to these admissions; 264 of
fice visits were made by those ad
mitted; tonsils were removed from 3
people through the co-operation of the
Welfare Department; 301 hookworm
treatments were issued; 103 atabrine
treatments for malaria were issued;
and 108 packages of yeast distributed
to 47 pellagra patients.
Crippled Children Service.
Four new- individuals were reported;
examinations at diagnostic clinics;
d 3 admissions to nursing service
and 3 visits were made to same.
Other Activities.
One hundred and forty-three con
ferences were held 'with physicians
and dentists; 1,436 personal confer
ences were held 'with the laity; six
newspaper articles were published;
207 bulletins were distributed; 465
circular letters Were sent out; 22,-
574 miles wtre travelled by the health
officer, nurse and sanitarian while on
duty; two reports were mad© to the
grand jury; 2 fifth Sunday Negro
health education programs ‘were held
with an attendance of 225 persons; and
1,832 specimens were sent to the state
laboratories for examination.
During the first 11 months of the
year 610 cases of disease were report
ed by the doctors. This included, sy
philis, hookworms, pellagra, pneu
mionia, typhus, etc.; 41 deaths occur
red from these cases.
Vital Statistics.
(For first 11 months of year only.)
Five hundred births reported, 309
white and 191 colored; 206 deaths re
ported, 129 white and 77 colored; 3
maternal deaths, 1 white and 2 color
ed; 38 infant deaths under 1 year of
age, 22 white and 16 colored and 22
stillbirths, 11 white and 11 colored.
General Sanitation.
Under the direction of our sanita
rian the privy plant re-opened and
began operation about five months
ago; 55 new sanitary privies have
been installed and six privies have
been repaired; 1 individual Water sup
ply has been installed and 9 new
septic tanks have
field visits were made to private
premises, sewerage plants, privy
plant, drainage project, etc.; 1,600
linear feet of minor drainage has
been completed and 300 linear feet
of ditch cleared, making a total of 3
acres drained'; 17 public talks were
made with 565 in attendance; 66 pri
vate premises were improved and 2
camp sites improved; 1 sanitation map
has been prepared and 7 malaria edu
cational posters have been prepared;
and 46 food-handlmg establishments
are registered for supervision while
115 field visits were made to these
establishments.
A county-wide school improvement
project has been submitted for WPA
approval consisting of eight school
projects in Grady county; 2 of the
projects are for major improvements
and the other six are for minor im
provements such as painting, screen
ing, re-roofing, playground equip
ment, and new water and sewage dis
posal systems.
Health educational classes are be
ing conducted by the sanitarian in
most of the rural schools. These class
es are covering communicable diseas
es and steps to prevent them.
The ne\v (City of Cairo) sewage
disposal plant, now under construc
tion is of course the biggest muni
c.pal improvement of 1938. This plant
trn evei y detail and will
care for Cairo’s sewage for some time
o come. This much-needed sanitary
improvement not only will afford a
single unit with capacity sufficient
to care for the present mains plus the
extension to come later, but will re-
lieve the septic, unsanitary coni
that exist further down the stre
There is an anticipated 4 or 5
sewer extension and it is hoped
most, if not all, of the unsewered
within the city limits of Cairo
receive public seWerage facilities
like to believe that we played as
part in sponsoring this project,
Public health education has its!
ginning with children who are stii
school age. It has been discos]
that the adult mind doa« not ra
take on new ideas.
Somo adults in the rural areas]
not understand why it is imp
to use a modern sanitary privy
.stead of the barn. They cannot ■
stand why a child will more that!
ly have hookworms again nexl
after taking treatment this year,!
think that it is the work of It:
nature for small babies to die
flies. And a great many of then
believe that malaria is caused byl
water, 'bad air, or something i
“et.”
Teaching the child the fundamt!
principles of public health goes
great deal further than trying
change the set mind of some of
older people, who decided fifty F
ago that they kneW all about cl
and fever, ground itch, and M
who are born to die anyway.
■We hope to be able to enlarge
school class activities this nevl
so that every school child in
cunty will have* an opportunity
learn the general principles of !
public health.
Value Of Work.
Evaluation of the work done:
$20,166.31.
For each dollar spent by the co!
they received in return $5.60 in :
vices rendered.
According to the 1938 popu^
for this county, it is estiffli
that the operating cost of 1 this &
Unit is approximately 17c per ca ?
Financial Statement.
1, thru March 31
Grady County ...........
ICity of Cairo ...................
31, thru Dec. 31 :.:5
G'rady County ............. 2,812
State of Georgia .......... &
City of Cairo .................... $6,93?'
Received .................... »'
spent, $7,131.54, leaving
of $194.04 unpaid office bi ■
These figures include money ieC ®
for 12 months and salaries p* 1
12 months and office bills f» r
At present the health depart*
$375.00 per City month of * ^
county and the
H. P. RANKIN, M. D,
Commissioner of Health.
BLADDER IRHITATJ 1
YOU UP? It’s not normal.
warning “Danger Ahe*
25c back if this 4-day treat®
not help nature flush exet
other wastes from the kidney- .
acids can cause irritation -•
in getting up nights, backache or
flow, burning, (25c) to* “
Just say Bukets ®
Locally at Grady P har