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Ie of Work By ;y Health Unit resume of -worl^ done by ' County Health Unit for ?ar ending September 30, en ted below; covers a very broad field the various activities as xpanse of territory, Kven it effort and interest beted by the personnel it to as thoroughly cover ies as is desired, Howhe prime motive promptilucate the public along of preventive nature, the ned are very gratifying, year 4,702 Jiersons were jgh 62 lectures to groups mny others through pert. Leaflets and pamig with preventable disring C,036 were distribr giving opportunity for at their leisure and unimportance of prevents. The all important red td impart is for peothat is possible to preous diseases but in all he family physician to who has become ill with Herein lies the foundastress that is constantthe significance of regexamipations by the 10 can and will advise he condition as found, lefects can be corrected erious physical trouble is been made of the labnving 56 specimens of ledjj 161 urinalyses, 86 es made in addition to; All cases found to be | nodical treatment as a | se tests have been ree family physician for 'ith some remarkable evident, thus aiding in f communicable diseas' twenty' five csfte^ of reported in the county and a few more that >orted. This is not as since it is a preventmd should be completeAround these cases i have been held when those assembled were taught the cardinal principles of improved sanitation and prevention of the spread of typhoid fever, meanwhile 5,020 antityphoid administrations were given us a protective measure. It is to be borne in mind however, that the inoculations against typhoid Sever cannot be relied upon exclusively to stamp out the disease since it has been shown that unless the source of contamination is removed, the systme will become infected with an over supply of infection and illness result in some instancet^-Universal observ^xwfe of the law requiring children to be vaccinated against smallpox before entering school is woefully lacking. However 77(1 received vaccination during the year through the unit. It is very pleasant to note the responsive attitude of parents and school authorities regarding this item when they are instructed as to the importance and advisability of the practice. In holding <jlinics for pre-school children much interest was displayed by the parents and the various organizations in the separate communities, f with a total of 237 children being examined and a majority of them receiving protection against diphtheria and smallpox. Of this number, 73 were found to be de- > fective and were sent to their family physician or dentist for correction. , Too much emphasis can not be pu* , on this work since it is a serious matter for a child to begin its school career with a physical handicap which will ultimately reflect on >ts mental progress. The examination of 2,7(14 school children reveals the fact that about one of every three is laboring under some physical defect with a possibility of a greater number becoming evident with further tests. This might be shown by results in two schools where hookworm clinics were recently held, with 36 per cent and 40 per cent being positive respectively. Little difficulty will be experienced in predicting the future welfare of these children with such maladies existing. The work of the Junior Welfare! League is to be commended in sponsoring the tonsil clinics where 37 children who would otherwise have not When able to have the correction made were the recipients of this benefit. Then too, quite' praiseworthy is the work done for those with de factive vision by Mr. J. M. Hoffer, who has done untold good for many children without consideration of his time and expense. This only magnifies the necessity of means by which many can be rehabilitated as it were, by operators skilled in their special lines, as dentists, etc. It is a soutce of satisfaction to note that the incidence of (>ellagra for the past year was much less as compared to previous years. Still there are a sufficient number ty justify the continuation of giving instruction and advice to. the public as to the- cause and prevention of this dietary malady. As an aid to the diet of many about 1,200 pounds of dried brewer's yeast has been dispensed and i*??tny pamphlets have boon distributed. Of vital importance is the work done with the 01 midwives of the county. With so many people having been accustomed to their services and a great marly others not feeling financially able to employ the services of a physician, they have hecome as one physician asserts, "a necessary evil." It is pathetic that the liver} of so many mothers and infants are entrusted to the care of the ignorant who, notwithstanding the advice and instructions given by the nurse and director, are generally incapable or meeting an emergency or of knowing when to summon the assistance of the physician in time for good to be done. A full time r.Ursc for this phase of the work apparently would not be asking too much when the exigency of sucn is ct nsidered. When observation is made of the unsanitary conditions existing on the f remises around so many homes the :n:i>vel of the situation is that mci; people a.c not suffering from diseases which are referrable to such. Iteali/.ing this unpleasant fact, the United States Public Health Service has provided the county with a full time sanitary inspector with all expense. Much gratitude 's felt f >r this addition which fills a great need from which much good i? to be expected. Should the public continue their splendid co-operation as heretofore an excellent report will he forthcoming in the near future. Heaity co-operation on the part of the medical profession and various organizations has enabled the work to progiess wonderfully and w'lh this support a \ ant deal more will be uceom, lished as the people be-ome njo.e end more acquainted wrn the object of the work, says Dr. A. W.l lumphries, director of the Kershaw ount> Health Department. It Happened In Church (Hy Dr. ]{. h. Bennett, President' of Lander College, Greenwood.) 't is a blessing preachers cannot | read the thoughts of their outward-! 1 y po,lU? H,ul attentive congregat'O'Ui. What a revelation it would nitJ ,)ll?ds behind many polite eyes are fur away>S My friend, Colonel Alfred B, Wjlliams, the brilliant editor of South Carolina and <>f? Virginia wielded a diamond pointed pen. He used to tell us of his friend, a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church, preaching a missionary sermon in a remote place in the mountains of Virginia. The bishop, clad in a high und smooth vest with no buttons or buttonholes in sight, as his sermon went on, looked in vain over the congregation for a single appreciative hearer. At last he saw one rr:i nwith his eyes glued on him. Ah, thought the bishop, "There is one. 1 will give him the sermon," and he poured ou^ the discourse with liberty on that one man. Sure enough ufter dismissal here came that mun pressing forward. The bishop awaited -the exjpected comments to help pay him for the effort of the discourse. They came. They were: "I'll give you ten dollars for your missionary collection, ef you'll tell me how you git in that thar vest." "Our pastor preached a whale of a sermon yesterday," said my friend Jones coming in Monday morning from the suburbs. "What did he preach about?" I asked. "Why, whales of course. His topic was The Sport of Being a Whale, and his text was about the leviathan in Job 41-32, "He maketh u path to shine after him. ' Honest, it was almost us good as a swim in the ocean. The preacher said, 'Live like a whale and leave a gleaming pathway behind you. Don't be a flounder or a jelly fish or a skate. Be a whale and leave something to let people know you have swum by." Jones' story brought to mind Dr. John Hannon's prayer at the Virginia conference after Maxey's sermon on the text, "I will make you fishers of men." BrOi John was on such good terms with the Lord that he could joke with him. He said, "O Lord, make Us good fishermen. Help us to catch the right sort^ not mullets or mud cats, but gold fish, and silver perch and diamond back terrapins." A- Texas preacher from the pulpit saw a man in the congregation with h^ hat on. Calling an usher he asked him to request the gentleman to remove his head gear. The usher approached the gentleman. "Excuse me sir, but would you mind taking off your hat." "Certainly not," said the man doing so. "I thought that would do I. have been coming to this church for two years and nobody has ever said a word to me. And I thought if I left my hat on somebody would speak to me." Dave Dunnham, a negro, was convicted of murdering Dave Sterling, another n?urro.-.in the eastern. Dart of Chester county, and oil Wednesday was sentenced to death by Judge Grimball. He will be efectrocuted Friday, November 13. Work Will Count In this time or any other it is only work and not talk that counts, People who are too mouthy never do much of anything else. They spend all their energy in expounding. Action of any other sort is not undertaken. The habit of talking al' the time and working but little has ruined many a prospect that otherwise would have amounted to something. Talk is cheap, so cheap these days that we should not listen at it It is not interesting. Work is al! that will count in this emergency ? Horry Herald. i Hartsvllle Flays I Camden Today Hartsvilie will oome to Camden Friday to play Camden Bulldog* for the championship game of this district. Camden has played Chester, Sumter, (treat F alls hiuI Hishopville, <lt feating theni all. Ilart.sville is also an undefeated teaifl and football fans are promised a good game here Friday afternoon to be placed on Zemp field at di.'to o'clock. How Fire Kills Timber (Hy ( has. W. NuitejW'nunty Forester ) Woods fires kill many trees out right, and they lead to other dam age often serious enough to turn timber growing profit into loss. Fire wounds in the living tissues of trees open up fertile fields for the growth of rot producing fungi, which hollow out the trees and make them detective and easily thrown by U strong wind. Insects also attack through firo scars on trees, destroying the ti/hber and eventually killing the trees. hires destroy tree seeds ami kill young trees, causing blank spaces in the woods or idle land on which there is little or no tree growth. Repeated fires often kill trees of desirable kinds, whose places are tuken by inferior fire resistant trees or by brush. Thus the lund either becomes barren or produces nothing of value. The killing of desirable trees from the timber stand destroys that part of the tree crop which often makes- the difference between profit and loss in timber growing. Repeated fires burn the leaves and humus which enrich the soil. Impoverished soils ure partly responsible for the retarded growth of trees. The injurious effects are particularly apparent in young pine timber. In one instance careful investigation showed that young longleaf pine trees grew 2.8 times faster in height on unhurried land than they did on an ftrea burned over annually. Under similar conditions, the diameter growth for short-leaf pine was found to be three times greater for the trees that grew on unburned land. Rot, insect damage, young trees destroyed and retarded tree growth often represent a greater loss to the owner of a timber stand than the more noticeable damage in killed timber observed immediately after a severe fire. * Did You Know? A cook-stove ^whieh has met the requirements for minimum weight and size, has been developed for the "Akron" and will we installed in the dirigible's galley? * It weighs only 110 pounds and has sufficient capacity to prepare meals for the dirigible's personnel of 09 officers and men. Propane gas, derived from natural gas, will be used as fuel for the stove. That the newest "Naval Station" is nearing completion? This station is known as the Naval Ammunition Depot, Hawthorne, Nevada. It is located on the western plains of Nevada near the barren site of a deserted gold rush town. This place was selected by the Navy for storage of explosives because the unfavorable conditions for human habitation and agricultural development would af| ford pecessary isolation. That the present* day diving dress ! weighs 27 pounds; the helmet anc i breastplate M pounds; the belt 8( pounds; shoes 28 pounds; totaling 188 pounds ? To the diver's working implements we have added air-driven tools, the electric-arc burning torch and the hydro-oxygen burning torch, Every Wednesday night at the Naval Training (Stations, San Diegc and Hampton Roads, a "smoker" is held for the entertainment of the re I cruits? There are a number of box ing bouts and a musical concert. There are 171 different rating: . among the enlisted personnel of th< , United States Navy? William M. Carter, of the Unitoc 1 States Navy Recruiting Station . Florence, S. C., furnished these in teresting facts about our N*avy. Huriod at Blaney I Blaney, Oct. 19.?F'uneral services will be held Tuesday morning at 11 o'clock for David iBrogden, 25, of Wipnsboro, who was fatally injure< Sunday night when his car collide^ with another automobile containing six Negroes on the Chester-Yorl highway, about ten miles from York Services will be held at the Smyrni Methodist Episcopal church near heri with the Rev. A. V. Smith, pastor, ii charge. Mr. Brogden was recently marriei to Miss Maebol Branham, daughter o Mrs. Ann Branham and the late W L. Branham of this community. 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