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. SATURDAY, JULY 12
Lucknow Agricultural
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• Walter Ostinak -
.SATURDAY, JULY 19
Cathy Foran. and.
Gordon Drennan
PRIDAY,IULY 25
Raynarit & Hilda Ackert
The Kintall Kutles softbailleam won the gold Medal at the Ladiek Bowie& captain; Eileen Wilson, assistant captain; Yvonne Sinnett,
Softball Tournament hosted by the Lucknow NoISY Ladies here on Linda :Bowler, Seryle MacDonald, Back row are coach, Tom Sin-
' the weekend. twelve. teams participated In the event with Kinta11-7 nett, Ann Drennan, Linda MeQuiilln, 'Marg Chester, Bonnie..Slimett,
taking .the championship, Blyth winning the silver medal . and and coach 'Art SiMpsOn. "Ahkent were Helen: Kempton, Mary
Kincardine taking•horne_the bronze,. TheKintall teamincludes from, KelnPton; Sandra lieMpton, janet MacDonald:- and Marlon—
the left, front .row: Donna Drennan, Annette7Drennan,, Bennie MacLennan. (Sentinel staff phOto)
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Huron county Council approved the illness outbreaks or health emergen-
preliminarY layout Plans for ,the _new cies in the county_dtuing theyear said
health building to be built on the Lynch.' Huron was luckily spared a
Huronview property in Clinton, when regional outbreak ' of rabies.. which
they. met for theitr June session, involved most of the counties around it.
Thursday, July 3. Domestic animal rabies immunization
A two-storey building with basement clinics were held in the county in
to include approximately 7,500 square January, 1979 and while there is no
feet of office space including proof that this measure prevented the
washroomS, storage, etc. and 3,750 spread of the outbreak • in Huron
square feet of basement storage is County, Lynch feels confident that such
proposed. The Health Unit, Clinton a preventative Measure lesSened the,
branch effice, including the Home Care risk of exposure for residents of this •
and Family Planning Prograrns would county.
use approximately 5,740 square feet of The Health Unit shared with their
the office space with 1,760 square feet hospital and medical colleagues the
left to be used by Huronview, the budgetary miseries of 1979. The
Health Unit or for Some other use. provincial government increased its
It is proposed that this latter areashare for the unit's costs (50 percent)
will be set up as an auditoriuth for the by five percent. The county inereased
present time' and probably used mainly its share (50 percent) by eight percent.
by Huronview Horne for the Aged. Inflation was higher than the
The total estimated cost of the budgetary increase but fortunately the
- proposed building is $400;000. - with Health:Unit managed to provide their
full compliment of services within their
budgeted limits.
Towards the -end of 1979 the Health
Unit learned the province would -in-
crease its cost-sharing of the Unit's
programs from 50 percent to 60 per-
cent. Initial estimates according' to
Lynch's report, suggest a local tax
saving of $30,000. Lynch 'said he hopes
that while the Health Unit is primarily the provincial cial share of the budget will
In conclusion, Dr. Lynch said the
'provincial government will be ex-
ploring the establishment of • stan-
dardized public health programs
throughout the provinee.
"We are fortunate in this county that
the Huron County Board of Health and.
Huron County Council consider the
provision of health services as one of
their important municipal functions."
This local political interest in health
services is far from 'uniform
throughout the province stated • Dr.
Lynch.
construction scheduled to begin in
September. The building will probably
be completed by early next summer.
County council will use money held in
reserves to fund the project.
Medical Officer of Health, Dr. Brian
Lynch, also presented the annual
report of the County's Health Unit at
the July 3 council session.
Dr. Lynch commented in his report
surveillance, enforcement and
prosecution activities may seem more
apparent.
Statistical reports indicated more
than 30,00 contacts Were made with
the unit's Departments of Public
Health Nursing, Inspection, Nutrition,
Family Planning, Dentistry and Home
Care during 1979,
"Our programs are • difficult to
describe or evaluate as most of our
'work is preventive in nature, and how
does one measure that which has not
Occurred?" commented Dr. Lynch in
his report.
• There were no dramatic headline
75 percent as _exists in the a health service facility, at times their increase tn
majority of public health units during
the coming few years.
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