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ANIMPORTANT
MATTER OFTEN
OVERLOOKED
The fact that birth and death are
Indisputably the two most Important
events to a human being is, in itself,
sufficient reason why a permanent
record of these all important events
should be made through the medium
of birth and death registration. But
there are many other reasons, and
practical ones, too, why births and
deaths should be registered.
Birth registration is essential for
establishing proof of citizenship and
identity, the right to attend school,
to enter into employment, to marry,
to receive passports, to enjoy bequests
and the proceeds of insurance. All
of these, and special social and crimi
nal problems are more or less depend
ent upon accurate birth records.
new-born child is to see that the birth
is properly registered with the local
registrar. There are contingencies
sure to arise when the man or woman
will bitterly regret the carelessness
of parents who overlook >.his duty,
for a birth certificate may mean the
difference between luxury or poverty,
happiness or sorrow, honor or dis
grace.
Your doctor or other attendant pres
ent at the birth, is required by law to
file the birth certificate, but parents
should insist that it be done.
Death registration is equally import
ant. Such records are necessary in
proving death for probating wills, set
tling estates, establishing claims for
insurance and pensions, and safe
guarding the health of our people.
Public Health Officers must have
immediate and accurate information
concerning each death in order that
the proper measures may be adopted
o prevent the spread of contagious and
epidemic diseases, and protect us from
an untimely death from preventable
causes.
Although the law requires the un-“
dertaker, or person acting as such, to
file the death certificate with the local
registrar, the relatives should Insist
that it be done.
TEACHERS
OF HEALTH
ASSEMBLED
The teachers in the schools of the
twelve Congressional Districts, who
are the instructors of the Health
Course, sponsored by the Georgia Tu
berculosis Association, the State Board
of Health, and the State Department
of Education, met for a teachers’ in
stitute at the Henry Grady Hotel, June
6, through the 8th,
Some of the foremost health and
educational experts in the State ad
dressed these teachers, among whom
were Mr. Willis Sutton, Dr. T. F. Ab
ercrombie, Dr. M. E. Winchester, Mr.
J. O. Martin, Miss Lillian Parker, Mr.
J. P. Faulkner, Dr. B. B. Bagby, Miss
Susan Matthew and Miss Mildred S.
Manson.
An interesting program was ar
ranged with two purposes in mind—
to give these teachers a vision of the
possibilities of health teaching in the
rural communities throughout Georgia,
and also aid them in working out, In
a practical fashion, the latest methods
in the technique of teaching health
to children.
&Ied jrj 1 ? State ef¥ry Board possible of Health in co-oper- this
in way as
sembly and arranged for physical ex
aminations to be given each teacher
taking the Health Course and any other
teachers in the Summer Normals who
will avail themselves of this oppor
tunity.
Baldwin County Health
Officer Resigns
It is with extreme regret that the
State Board of Health learned of the
resignation of Dr. Sam A. Anderson,
Health Officer of Baldwin County, on
June 1, 1929. Doctor Anderson has
been health officer of Baldwin County
since April 1, 1924, and much advance
ment in public health has been made in
this county during his administration.
Doctor Anderson is leaving the field
of public health to enter that of in
ternal medicine ahd has received an
appointment as interne in one of the
larger hospitals in the east, After
completing this couse he will probably
return to the South and begin the prac
tice of Internal medicine.
Dr. John D. Wiley was elected to fill
the position made vacant by the resig
nation of Doctor Anderson and as
sumed charge of the work on June 1.
Doctor Wiley is a native Georgian,
having received his public health
training from the Medical Department
of the University of Georgia at Au
gusta and the Rockefeller Foundation
Training Station at Indianola, Missis
sippi, and has already entered actively
Into the public health program of this
county.
No State in the Union has greater
natural advantages than Georgia, but
we cannot capitalize these advantages
until we are able to assure the people
tha J . our State affords every health
protection possible.
HAVE YOU INSURED
YOUR BABY?
* If, is a well Known fact that young
children are more susceptible to mea
sles, mumps, diphtheria, scarlet fever,
tuberculosis and typhoid fever than
grown people, This is unfortunate
because it is extremely important
that every child be brought up to ma
turity a 3 free as possible from the
effects of disease, Plants and trees
must be carefully cultivated and pro
tected from harmful influences while
they are tender and small, livery
farmer knows this. Just so, the same
rule applies to children. The growing
child needs a well balanced body Ev
ery part must grow at a normal, uni
form rate. Bruise a young sapling. It
may grow up into a tree finally but
it will not be strong enough to with
stand strong winds. Injure the vital
organs of a young child; it may grow
up finally but it will never recover
physical perfection. No disease, not
even measles, mumps or whooping
cough, leaves the child as sound phy
sically as he would have been if he
had not had the disease.
It was not so many years ago when
it was considered proper for parents
deliberately to expose their children
to measles, mumps and whooping
cough so that they would contract
these diseases and not be bothered
with them later in life. We now know
that this was a very dangerous prac
tice, especially with regard to mea
sles and whooping cough. Do you
know that 400 children died from
whooping cough in Georgia during
1927 and 1928? Do you know, also,
that 241 people died of measles during
these two years and most of these
were young children? Diphtheria killed
400 and typhoid fever 1,100. These
figures refer to actual deaths. Thous
ands of children had these diseases
and recovered. Or did they recover?
Yes, they recovered from the disease
but not entirely from the after effects.
If time permitted, I could tell you more
about these after effects. I think, how
ever, that it is more important that
I talk about the of these
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diseases in young children.
I only wish it were possible to give
you a simple method of preventing
each and every kind of infectious dis
ease. Some day this may be possi
ble. At the present time three of
these diseases can be prevented by
vaccination, namely: smallpox, diph
theria and typhoid fever.
Every inteHigont person knows
about the value of vaccination against
smallpox. Perhaps every one of you
can show a vaccination scar on your
arm. Some of you were vaccinated
during childhood and some later in
life. Smallpox is a rare disease be
cause most of us are protected by vac
cination. Those of you who have
children or expect to have them will
no doubt see to it that they are vac
cinated by the time they are old
enough to go to school. But why wait
until then? Any good pediatrician, or
doctor of children, will advise you that
the best time to vaccinate your chil
dren is when they are only a few days
or weeks old. This is advised not
merely to get early protection but be
cause babies at this age suffer less
discomfort and are not able to scratch
tLe scab off and contaminate the sore
with their fingers. Large, unsightly
scars are usually due to the poison
ous infection from dirty fingernails
and not to the vaccine itself.
Babies are usually immune to diph
theria during the first six months of
life. After this time, immunity is
rapidly lost. Children between the
ages of six months and six years are
very susceptible. Beyoud the sixth
year natural immunity begins to de
velop so that older children and adults
rarely have the disease. Your doctor
will, therefore, advise you to have
your baby vaccinated against diph
theria before it is six months old.
Here again the injections give very
little discomfort, while in older chil
dren there may be some uncomforta
ble reaction though never severe or
serious.
Babies are usually immune to ty
phoid fever during the first year of
life. After this time they become
very susceptible and remain so
throughout their lives. Therefore, ev
ery baby should be vaccinated against
typhoid fever before reaching the age
of two. Those of you who have taken
typhoid vaccine know that for the
firs*’, twenty-four hours after the injec
tion there is sometimes an uncom
fortable reaction. The younger the
child, however, the milder the reac
tion. Babies have almost no reac
tion at all. Hence another argument
in favor of early vaccination.
It is only fair to admit that vac
cination against any of these diseases
is not an absolute protection. But in
stances of failure are rare. If every
baby born during the next ten years
were vaccinated as I have just de
scribed, diphtheria, smallpox and ty
phoid fever in the next generation
would be rare curiosities.
Perhaps your children are no longer
babies. The same rules apply to them
also. The sooner they are vaccinated,
the better the protection and the less
discomfort to them.
Health Officer Resigns
The State Board of Health is indeed
sorry to lose the valuable services of
one of our best workers, Doctor B. B
Bagby, of Clarke county. He will at
tend post-graduate school this fall be
fore finally locating, so says Georgia’s
Health.
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COVINGTON, GEORGIA
THE COVINGTON NEWS, COVINGTON, GEORGIA
FREE BULLETINS
Our State Board of Health has for
free distribution pamphlets on various
subjects. We wish to call your at
tention to the ones on—
Sanitation;
Prenatal Care;
Baby Book;
Child Management;
Man Power;
Keeping Fit—for boys;
Healthy Happy Womanhood;
The Wonderful Story of Life—
for parents.
This is a partial list and our read
ers should only order the ones that
will be of service to them. Every
family should receive the monthly
publication, “Georgia's Health." It Is
also sent free for the asking.
Prison Tuberculosis
Commission
Governor L. G. Hardman, on Wed
nesday, May 15, appointed a special
committee to study conditions of the
tuberculosis unit at the State Prison
Farm, Milledgeville, to make a re
port of its findings, give recommenda
tions, and put the matter before the
Legislature for an appropriation for
improvements.
Those appointed as members of this
special commiss’on are: Judge E. L.
Rainey, Chairman, Prison Commission,
State Capitol; Hon. J. E. Hyman, State
Senator, Sandersville; Mr. J. P. Faulk
ner, Georgia Tuberculosis Association,
Atlanta; Hon. Linton B. West, House
of Representatives, Cuthbert; Hon. W.
O. Cooper, Jr., House of Representa
tives, Macon.
Money for health is always well
spent; it is an investment which will
bring handsome dividends In increased
•fficiency and production.
Ala*, No!
A London dentist is said to sing
when drawing teeth. No extractions
are really painless.
The Result
Rare first editions of books may be
worth thousands of dollars, but cheap
vest pocket versions have done much
more for human advancement.—Cbl
cago Daily News.
heel're to Mix
“Young blood and old brains” are
j „aid to be it good combination The
trouble is to get either one of them
to find any use for the other.—Boston
| Transcript
Actors’ Superstition.
A widespread superstltiion in the
theatrical profession is the belief that
it is lucky to take the same route each
night to the theater. To vary It is to
invite misfortune
D stent
If the ‘missing link" is discovered
;he human race might do well to put
it in the place of some of the links
that are not missing
Well Meant
Little Mary was nothing if not po
lite. She had heard that the minister
was leaving the church for a new pas
torate. Her mother had the minister
to dinner shortly before he left, and
Mary, carefully waiting for a pause In
the conversation, remarked: “I hear
we are going to have the pleasure of
’osing you.”—Argonaut.
Grape Sugar Best
The grape sugar contained In grapes
Is considered by physicians to be one
of the most readily absorbed of all
sugars and Is the right kind to pro
mote vigor and to maintain best health.
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Long-Lived People*
The Bulgarians and the Russian*
iave the records of the greatest lon
evlty among white peoples. Bulgaria
i«ub 8,300 centenarians in a popula
ion of a little over 4,000,000, com
pared with 164 in Franc* and M In
Great Britain.
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Sargon Is Smashing
All World Records
If anyone told you that one single
medicine had relieved tens of thou
sands of suffering men and women in
all walks of life of their health trou
bles and that it had put thousands of
other men and women unable to find
relief back to work, it would sound
impossible, wouldn’t it?
But that is just exactly what is hap
pening right here in this state. Not
only has it brought them new-found
health and strength, but it has given
them new energy, new vitality and a
new lease on life itself. In many cases.
the results have been so remarkable
that many people have bought it and
sent it to friends in other states, while
thousands have written grateful let
ters of praise.
The wonderful success that Sargou
and Sargon Soft Mass ' Pills have
achieved in only one year’s time sim
ply staggers the imagination.
In the state of California alone,
where it was introduced on April 16
of this year, it has required the as
tonishing total of nine solid carloads
—or more than 200.000 bottles—to
supply the demand. Kansas City
tailers and wholesalers have sold and
distributed over 300.000 bottles in the
states of Kansas and Missouri. Min
neapolis and St. Paul dealers have re
quired nine entire carloads in five
months. The demand in practically ev
ery state and section where Sargon
has been introduced lias been corre
spondingly large. When national dis
tribution has been completed it will
require millions upon millions of bot
tles to supply the ever-increasing de
mand for this celebrated medicine.
Back of Sargon’s triumph in the
drug stores is Sargon’s triumph in
the homes. Everywhere it has been in
troduced it has become a household
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Scientists say that flics
of typhoid fever, infantile "Tv
summer disorders and thirty
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FLY-TOX is harmless to
sure death to People j)
, mosquitoes well toad*
moths and bedbugs as
FLY-TOX tv
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FLY-TOX with its perfume-like
ranee.—Adv.
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