The Lucknow Sentinel, 1947-11-27, Page 6si
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TUE aLUCI NOW.:SENTII�igL,LUCKNow', prriotio- =
Leports On Wor
e
Unit
rac.County_Health
ra the Warden and Adie tber r au zing:: adeq` 'te sc
ho
the practising physicians, and the
contacts of active ;cases are. x-
rayed at regular periodic inter-
vas.-
. Venereal Disease is• fortunately
not a big problemin this, Coun-
.try,..buLL,have k QW the_exact
location of all cases. arid -to knave
whether they are undergoing ade-
'tluate treatment, ,and not con-
tintung:,to be._•a source of spread
Of this, disease througglaout the
County'.`. -
Mental Health. forms .part of
• our work too, and. we are now
series of cQuntywide •immuniza M• � �, - _..-_ , ,-.> . -• h Mink'
tion c "i" rlfIn January .oldin ar Mental Ifiealt
• Courityr.SJbunc l.:, health,, • • -
a - p • �� In Maternal' Health .Our ,�:nurse's
Gentlem ri
• . i - e" again to ac have made 213 visits to expectant
It is my pieaslir _.. . g
: e' t our- .d vitiation to. .speak to Inothers, ^and 284 visits`to mothers
cp y. �
the CounciI-int session, as the dir- requiring .post-partem' care..
of the County Uealth Unit In our Communicable Disease
actor " Control programme 'we started a
and M.,O.H, for, the County,
::.. 4,Uly.tst 1946;, we began the
organization of the Health .Unit
i --a, project. which has •'for its,
purpose the administration. of
ll -t' e' alis•
`• public;,health on a fu nrii b
M , and .. its aim is ; to bring to the
`ori .and'.the :Siaeroada `of
�' • concessi. , s ,
„every municipality •�tlie ` efficient
control. ,of: the spread: of disease,,
and the preventiol of'those ..corn:,
municalile diseases for, which we
•n cs ear
These, clinics, have been', 'carried e ion
out .in 109: schools :of ;the .County,
To: these 'wee'. invite mothers with.
pre -s 11°0111°01• children and, small
every n • th in'Walkerton at
Which cases are"referred by the
school health nurse and: by the.
anily'physiciaris in the hope that
attend and the : urpose Mental. Health, agency. Twenty -
is
babies to, P . three ° ei�'sons; have been seen at
is` t :• ive : cornplete. iininunization h • p
�i g our clinics so: far;
against those commuxnicable dis and Food .Contrgl is.
eases .for • which We have Protect, Sanitation
ive materials, .•to all Who wish it, a large' part of ' my `work which
I..delegate to the two Sanitary
Inspectors. ' It •deal's.. with sanita-
tion . in 'schools to which • 1 have
already 'referred and about 'Which
the Sanitary 'Inspectors' •'Have
made 228 school visits: :It deals
with.. the promotion of an ade-
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quate and' safe milk supe y ani
for;, this purpose •the Sanitary 'In-
.
spectors have made 54 inspections
of dairy farms and milk' distribut-
ing establishments.` It deals 'with.
cleanliness in restaurants'and 213
such• inspection's .have been made.
Also" it deals. with ,•an adequate
water sup�p1y and . adequate.sew-
'aga -cin 3 � And,.'•in...t`bp•, corneal
ion :594: 'water. samples
Zes ha
e.b
been
tested . and 275
inspections ,have,
leen made 'of" sewage di-p°sal'in-
= tions. :' b
Pubis Heath.: E_dueation is . a
very 'large • part: of ` as full.-. `me
... n'r .0 ,
' in o
health agenc3 and,
work' 'along this .:line' remains' to
be "done. It means the::promotion
of health': publicity ,in ,whatever
Fray �i e can. For .example; by. con-
' have A'ade nate preventive :meas- .free of charge. To the babies and
re qi e school children. the combined
:.Lures. '• • •• • P"-
t' value i •'• dollars and:protection against diphtheria and
• To � put a a
'saved y' any municipality, whooping cough is' given, as well
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• cents • by .
r Tri terms of the amount of dia.; as • vaccination against' smallpox.
every ease, before, anything
ease less today than: there was �: ,
_. and'
:F_. is -done, ;the -parents written •
.one and' a'half years:rap -would erica it is of inter
.• be at :this stager impgssible. But sent isobtained,. ._
t est to know' that. during this per -
we• -.can •give you ::°how some idea over • 10 000 immunization
"tin t e of work that we are iod ov a .. ,
of . e type • ,treatments have been given.`. And
• trying' to promote in' .order. to. , .
in;: connection witch.' acute' corn -
work
..•'eventuahy reach our:aims. The, ***ease ,
work follows. along . these Main municable d.>slease contrail, :our
• • nurses have made `220 home visits.
headings;: is that
': Another big programme.
:• •1CHILD >iIEALTII":
of ` tuberculosis control; ` During
;�•� • .. ,�.�?.,..Infaznk. Heal#lY - _ . _ , _ •
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M-
atal.
b I're•n � ,
Health', - •
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SC
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C
h
Maternal' Health.-
3,' Communicable disease con-
I trol __ ` �•`s
Tuberculosis control
5, Veneral.,Disease .Control •
6 School. Dental Health'
7. Menial '. Health'
8. Nutrition • '
'9; Sanitation•°and•'Food Control
.
10.• Public° xeal�' Education.N •
Infant' Health' has been carried
out in' the'forni' of visits` of: the
public health nurse; to the homes
Where there ;are:new-born babies.
Not alt. mothers •are aware of the
iethods: ; of '< feeding, dresei g,•
bathing and; the .many other dut .
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�.i=.1_.� .:-_..«..[-.mss,: 5,J.•.•'w^
'had- their chest x�.rayed in this
Codnty.';'.in ,a .,'-lhuge case=-findin
project Cg -.these`,." 1 were' .found
tom'-ha�►.e- active tinea cubs ?an
required sariator ui n c-ar e: phis
means that there did exist
in this
County individuals. who.. `were.
spreading :the disease':. without
knowing ' they were : a source qof
danger: to others.,, It is these • inn-
dividuals We have' to :'discover what doing and 'we -hope
ear and institute promptly'; the fe ences with teachers, school ;nil ' hat w e are g
are spectors, Municipal officials, 'hos-' that.a, printed year book will be
necessary •'treatnient,� if: -.tire �,. ,• : available in the .new year:for�each,
to 'control•••tuberculosis pital authorities, seri: ire . 'clubs,
ever going" • n's : g ' u s 'and •. our 'Board Of you, Which will 'tell' in detail
in . Canada,,..�.nd��::so • we .have zt once pro p
,of Health members. It: ':means the `of all ''that 'we , have ,done and our
monthly • foilow� uP :. cheat cli�cs •, •• •
l cases sus= presentation of health' movies' to plan s for:the , future
at which 'all" doubtful 'high
. , ,.•:F
a ps r - n u ;'.Dr: William. owler; D P.H.;
r, b . •high ,school �i oup o a y gro ps � •
petted•' cases, People refe red.., y ---
lea in' connection With infant_ up-
bringing; • particularly • y :o u, n g-
. iuothers,—even , after, they have
been ,fully' informed' .by the•, fam-
ily jiln�sician; and is proving,
very Valuable to, both the mother
.and • the family doctor to: have ,a
co-operative health service, w1tirh
is 'also educational. in den�onstrat-:
: I u the •necessary. methods. The
nur-s; • does' ' not diagnose'. diaea
or treat dis-e without the :ad
vice f• the •doctor. In eonnectian:`
With, this type' of Work`. our nurses
have'. :made 1028, home visits
which also :include' visits in . fin
^i eetip with pare -w Dol children's
health It is hoped that eventuallly'
- ,aur hair., -will ire= ,stile to :i It
every. ,baby living• :sn her des ict
befo e it is a•' year -old
• School, • Health " form s a large
part Of anv, full, scale health ser-''
( lice .and erns is, no • e.. eept'.iooin. It
iitalalae net only a' favorable en-
vironment
n
viionment'under'hich our ti` '#d
"ran, are 'obliged. to lire •for most
of their . :. hour but' ..ala&
the di corery and correction ,of.;
• n , c ndition in the body liable
•'t'e affect , the future gild nth
of the ..child. It . mean also ' the
'early deiecti .. and eantro of;,,•
a co;-uuuirable c3 a - , Por.
this purpose there. I• as'.'wool
Medica' Officer. r. 'hare made' '224
iYit Its,,'. •public and •separate
cb& 'throughout fine' county.
r3
.,,the Sanitary. '-pec or .lure',
•i .n.:ade se" dn. ctkns.
,g: � ` tore ,cf environment we l'oCk
ar • de al # good
hale to a:ti '-i he
es :. a v was~ 1 bare done
alp}tet .":11) • r� -s c '0 .�a=_.:
• abai:•►s�I..'h�."t��qy b.+.
.l• \Dail. ;\ai ,moi i�=•.ykfi'�►••..�+i' 0• •..a� L�r.•+..Y 111�irLL
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s bz).. i anti... : i "°!o�`` .� •' w•waw�c
A•� •y�n�sy
Letters To The Editor
Dear` Editor: -
.It will seem to the. ordinary
reader "life spitting against. the
wind", suppose, to protest a•.:
is talo •". placee„,„in
Great 'Britain at the'present time:
But the handwriting `on the wall
is 'so obvious and so fraught with
evil cot ,Sequences to: the' Anglo-
Saxon race, . and through' ;them;
upon the whole world, that it .is
like the' , ostrich that sticks heir
head in the sand, that we "are
ar -
not roclainiing from every house
P
top,' and every :vantage *ant with
all 'theenergy we possess,. • our
against. the - inevitable
warning 'age .. I
clinsequences , of this ideology.
whieh they' have adopted; '
.The. evil consequences are de-
veloping even more rapidly than
I had thought possible . with the
British people.;' t• It has already
R •.
Ti~ +� NOv Er . 27th, 194'
.-reacchect- he stage -that' labi h
going ta, be deprived of the most
basic,rights of a fre; , people and
is now going to be, enslaved, and
compelled to go where directed,
on, terms prescribed. ,Sia �erygin
everything but name, ;but a fans
'�a�vczill tot�ver�'""t.: 1� �X
�Qns.�r•
quences.. It is to be only an..
emergency, but with any form o
Socialistic goverxurient,.tlere`wll
always be "conditions of emer-
gency. The inevitable develop;
merit of any .forth of socialism, has'
Ttaken place The• part ei- ..Ii
pP ca
tion of socialistic doctrines will
always prove disappointing, al-;
ways like carrots before the "don
key, until' when" the. ultimate has
been.' reached ,and: the.- s't
w, ,ate :• is
supren , the individual=is only. a
:starved or starving slave, under
the heel of a fe" brutal over'.
iotas., {
Thin 'autcome isrinevitable,'and
it 1 has followed this inevitable':
_course ,in Great. Britain with a
speed that, is difficult to under-
stand in the . liberty loving
:19:Xon a Howe
low -perfectly' logical the whole.
•
delevopment :is. This Government
got into power- by .•promising• to.
make . a Utopia of 'the' country.
If .only (the laborers were getting
what the : were entitled
they:were to, shalt ' •.
lot ',would .be a. happy one, The, ' .
Capitalists were ' keeping. th-
is, cha,r�a-`
a el laborers, abore.� were creating.
• e 'the' ,.
masses;' expecting' these Utopi
-�romises :to :
. P i :materialize, tried to ••
'cal. Who have. -been` of.'service `;to 'make them come true,:, by putting:
us' in this -difficult period of or -them m ••practize; with the result
:ganization• • and, the;procuring: of that aheyy:were ,_or ly-producing a
nater-ia]s 'and�.:housirig.and office' fraction''of 'wh'at' they .have {Y been
space `in order that we'may carry doin The coal `'vers 'th
I . . g, min at Were. taut our �� ork What I` have said promised; the.most, because they
utline of �:.
.merely': an o ,were :'- pitied the most; took thin
,•t.things.
:11
�': fir•
th Dorn hands, :and: '
their cis, . tried` to,,
make their dreams come, true,' of
shorter ; hours, more ..holidays,
more pay,- far
row they are . 'Only' turning but •
about'tone=third of what they used
to do. In; addition to this, the •gov
ernment 'has,: : had; ` to employ::: • p,
'thoiisynnds: of ,,.people to apply • -`
these regulations, that do not• pro
dace... any.:_ooal,::buLwhich.. Must,
be charged ; to the amount of coal .
produced, , and : these irksome , re=
astrictions, sand :.directions ,.pro-
duces a feeling' of �resenment,
not anticipated and the selection;
of these white collar men .must
of . necessity .prodLuce, a ; lot of
'jealousy; and sense of favoritism.' .;
which: seems to :be best; expre3sed '
by doing 'less under their direct-ect-
ion We have only to give the
oaa tQ
matier some real, rcoasiderat:' :'.
tunderstaiid'just dhow rn ieh of't i. is - �"
feeling�of resentment ;c -11i` be ac
of lese
''cumulated ovith so many
appointrnents' being made
Thera those responsible for the
success of these 'socialistic• p .n
.........
"ciples' seeing .therm being•. v; rrat�
seems to there sabotaged by
shat they had believed �-. e toR;
receive the most beneLts. ..
only- to :be' expected t.:a : t.:e•
will detennir a •to secure f.'r.
these masses, what i :e - : a...
Y ..
promised • theirs* 'by ccr •r'' -�
• them to do their. art. `) .: � e;
•zt about "f'h is' in turn=.:L•2..7•,5,
pio_ving ever more inspeti ,:' d
snoopers, which iii r: z;
•
. ez.er more rentment.
1 :becomes •neefi arY • ; ' 3.. «.:I
Ies5. police ftorL'e. , Thar; : ...
ey'r'ie will. Lit x t11nua max' +•% = :'� :
charge mf t beca became the
tz.lerant dictators:.,These
oris arra ju.t'awset}:�e
br n of Soc ahstiC •gore. --a.= , '
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• gose.•ten .,.s/',. Ic u.ia^l , a8.rt +
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m e most': rule &c'•;`•
ane most : abject 'sjvettY,
requiring such service, the writ-
ing' of press articles. ' In this con-:
'nection, our staff ..merribers : have
�-ad`dresse. •d airily' "Farm. Fo-rui'im.
group, Women's Institutes; etc.,•
at which they�'were invited to' at
tend, particularly : in, the. even-
ings. 'The nurses' have addressed
5• meetings, I have addressed, 14
meetings, and • the Sanitary In-
spectors .,have addressed: 44 -Meet-
ings, but . a great '•deal -ye •• re-
mains:, to be cdone..
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thank ; you, Mr. Warden,'j
half. 'of the ,members of my staff
'arid `all members -Of County Conn,
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