The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, October 23, 1931, Image 3
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.
Besides his widow Mr. Brogden i
survived by his parents and fou
brothers, Carson, Samuel, Madiso
and Oscar Brogden, all of Bishopvilh
:
Nothing less
than a six
can give you
built-in
smoothness
mfQUfkm The -whole question was settled
long ago?as to how many cylinders
it takes in a motor car engine to give
satisfactory smoothness. Science definitely
established the fact that at least six are
necessary. And today, the public accepts the
multi-cylinder engine in the same way that
it accepts 4-wheel brakes, parallel-mounted
springs and every other principle of proved
and acknowledged superiority. Everybody
knows that nothing less than a six can give
you built-in smoothness.
V
V
Today, six-cylinder smoothness is within
reach of every new car buyer. For Chevrolet
has produced a quality car, powered it with a
firmly'mounted six-cylinder motor?engineered
it to run with unsurpassed economy
- ?Mil rartnMLIt Jawr,oioQnathe verv lowestpriced
cars in thejpaarket.
'4T5 *. *675
Mi pricaa /.?. b. rtinU MiUtUgmn, apmeimi mqpUpmant matrm.
Lmm d?M*ar?d prioma and aary G. M. A, C. tmrtmm.
I
I NEW CHEVROLET SIX
Thm Grmmt Atmericmm Vaime
Fp~ = See year dealer below "Ti
CAMDEN CHEVROLET COMPANY
C. M. Graves, Manager West DeKalb Street
H v
GOOD LAXATIVE
FOR ALL AGES
All people?young and old?
Beed Thedford's Black-Draught
when troubled with
constipation, lndigestion,
biliousness. Contains
no chemicals.
Composed of pure modicin
si roots and
herbs, finely powdered,
carefully combined.
Easy to take ?
no disagreeable after
eirecta. In use since 1835.
Sold by druggists in 25-cent
packages containing twenty-five or
more doges. GH a package, today.
and fry it 1n your case. mu-i
J I'll M ? J
Welcome
To The
Kershaw
County
FAIR!
/fl?8
EACH
*48o,m
LOW
Prices
Never bought such
tires as you get in
these
GOODYEAR
PATHFINDERS
Prtca Each In
SIZE of Each Pairs
29x4.40-21 $4*9* $4.SO
29x4.50-20 5.60 5.45
30x4.50-21 5*69 5.55
28x4.75-19 6.65 6.45
29x4.75-20 6.75 *.57
29x5.00-19 6.9* 6.SO
30x5.00-20 7.XO 6.90
28x5.25-18 7.90 7**5
31x5-25-21 0.57 S .35
28x5.50-18 9.75 S.SO
29x5.50-19 9.99 9.65
32x6.00-2011.47 11*15
2135
IACH
r-J? ?i4.M.2|
4^1* rain
GOODYEAR
SPEEDWAY
X
Prlc? Each In
SIZE of Each Pair*
30x4.50-21 $4-85 $4.70
28x4.75-19 5.68 5*57
1 29x5.00-19 5 . 99 5.83
30x3'/, 3.75 3.65
. ! .
Visit Our Super-Service
; Station While Here
\ Carolina
Motor Co.
r OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
n ' ' ' ll|
'