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PAGE 4—The Newberry Sun, Newberry, S. C., Thursday, Jan. 2,1969 Saunders, A. F. Busby and Mrs. vices is not a substitute lor hos- Mary Nell Eargle. Members of the executive joard, which is composed of the «hairman, vice-chairman and secretary, will have the author ity to function between meet ings of the full Advisory Com mittee. Home Health Services are in pital or nursing home care, but an additional service. It is a physician directed program. When a patient is referred by his physician for home care, the public health nurse visits the home, evaluates the home sit uation in relation to the pa tient’s condition and care need- eluded as a part of the Medi- *d and the family’s attitude to- Health Benefits. Under warti hls illness and send a «- care Medicare there are two insur ance plans; Plan A, which is Hospital Insurance and Plan B, which is medical Insurance. If a person is 65 or over and port to the physician. She car ries out the orders and sugges tions of the physician and will teach a responsible member of the family how to give certain has signed for Medicare, he is treatments and personal care, eligible under Plan A. Plan A »"<! supervise the family mem. includes Home Health Services b «. m giving care. She also co- which allows up to 100 visits a . ordinates the nursing care of year, after three or more days the patient with other services of hospitalisation. Total cost of ordered the Her visit, are paid for by Medicare P nmaI 7 responsibility in the funds under Plan A, if the pa- home 18 to * lye - teach ' and 8U - tient has been in the hospital pervise care of the individual for three or more days and his patient within the family set- physician has referred the pa- ting. Every sixty days, at least, tient for services within 14 days. A person is eligible under Plan B if he or she pays $4 a month after signing up at the Social Security Office, provid ing he or she is 65 or over. Un- the physician review* the pa tient’s case and determines whether the patient needs to be recertified (and for what ser vices) or if services can be dis continued. The Advisory Committee has der Plan B, the patient pays 20 emphasized that the two ser- Deputy Clerk of Court Mrs. Eloise Setz- Shealy succeeds retiring Sheriff Tom Fel- P 61 * cent of the cost and Medi_ TJ ce f u a Y, ailable y nder T Home ler gives the oath of office to Mrs. Mildred lers. The new terms for both began on care the balance » after $ 50 de ' Health Services m Newberry R. Harmon, Clerk of Court, and B. Eugene January 1st. (Sunphoto by Steve Arm- du <; tible - Chooltr Cibor.'ff Mva «roo \ Costs of visits for Medicare sing Care and Medical Social Shealy, Sheriff. Mrs. Harmon was reelect- field.) ed to her position without opposition. Mr. PROPERTY TRANSFERS Newberry No. 1 Huey Long Cockrell to Caro line C. Cockrell, on^ lot and one building on Harper St., $5 Newberry, S. C., Dec. 31, 1968 Hal Kohn to Fred P. and Lucy F. Herren, one lot, $5. The Kendall Co. to William M. and Louise C. Dominick, .44 acre, $800. Robt. C. Weaver, Secretary 19.65 acres, $5. Sampson Thomas to Beulah Oxner, .60 acre $5. Modem Homes Constructior Co. to GAC Trans-World Ac ceptance Corp., 2 acre $450. Glenn G. Bonner to Bethle hem Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1.14 acre, $5. Frank H. Ward, Judge of Probate to Newberry Federal Savings & Loan Association, 3.63 acres, $22,514.98. Little Mountain No. 6 Malcolm C. Amick to Martha J. McNeill, 1 lot, $5. W. D. Summer to Willie Mae and after periodic review. Members of the committee are: Dr. V. A. Long, Mrs. Mary Rossiter, Mrs. Floy Eargle, Mrs. Helen Foy, Dr. W. W. King, Jr., L. A. Richardson, Mrs. Sara Jackson, Mrs. Evelyn Hayes, Mrs. Sue Brown, Mrs. Lillian patients is paid to the Home Services. An additional service, Health Agency by Medicare, that of Home Health Aide, is however, not to the patient. expected to be added at some Home Health Services are time in the near future. The also available to those patients aide will assist the patient with under the Medicaid Program, personal hygiene and aid with which is administered by the appliances such as wheelchairs, Department of Public Welfare, etc. The aide will work closely The Advisory Committee em- under the supervision of the phasized that Home Health Ser- Home Health visiting nurse. Rh Vaccine Prevents Birth Defects, Infant Deaths, Says March of Dimes PREVENTIVE VACCINES for certain birth defects bring a turning- point in modern medicine. Vaccine against Rh disease is now avail able. A forthcoming German measles vaccine will protect future children from multiple defects like those affecting this little boy. of Housing and Urban Devel opment to George E. Duncan, one lot and one building, Har rington Heights, $13,400. Newberry No. 1 Outside Whitener Lumber Co., Inc. to Guy V. Whitener, Jr:. Frank D. Graham and J. Ralph Wil liams, 29.1 and 22 acres $5. J. Ray Bonner to Dempsey Bonner, one lot, $5. Hal Kohn, Sr. to Billy Rich ard and Anna T. Smith, 1 lot, $5.00. Mutual Builders, Inc. to J. Lewis Cromer as Trustee, one lot, $5. Modem Homes Construction Co. to GAC Trans-World Ac ceptance Corp., one lot and one building, $425; also one lot and one building, $350. Nathaniel Pitts Jr to Fred Henderson, 1.70 acres, $500. Eddie Burton to John Earl Burton. .48 acres, $5. Dempsey Bonner to Mrs. Jean C .Walker, 3 lots, $5. Silverstreet No. 2 Jimmie V'. Shelton to: James C. Bishop, 2.06 acres, $5; Narvis Shelton, one lot $5; Willie James and Daisy Mae Neel, 9.25 acres, $5. Bush River No. 3 William Senn to: Ruth John son, 157.95 acres, $5 love and and affection. I. M. Smith to Myra Leaman Smith, 24.85, 72, 61, and 201.7 acres, $1 love and affection. Carolina Tree Farms, Inc. to James W. and Lovely S. Litkett, 2 acres, $5. Whitmire No. 4 William Cody Owens to Mar vin Leroy Prince, one lot and one building, $4500. Martin Gay Suber to Ervin Rosa Wagner, one lot and one building, $5. William M. and George L Lindler to Linda Jo Erskine, one lot and one building $10. Whitmire No. 4 Outside T. W.,Suber to Elmer Baker, one lot, $10. Pomaria No. 5 Ethel Wicker and Alice Sue Wicker to Howard E. Meetze, S. Eargle, Mary Frances S. Mathis, Leola S. Johnston and William D. Summer Jr., 6.53 acres, $1 love and affection. Huey Long Cockrell to Car oline S. Cockrell, 2.20 acres and one building, $5 love and affection. Prosperity No. 7 W. Manning Harris to W. C. Goodwin, one lot, $5. Sparta N. Garrett to Allen Gallman Jr., .918 acre, $250. Lottie Mae H. Martin to Robert H. Martin Sr., two acres and one building, $5. Robert H. Martin Sr., to Robert H. Martin Jr., two lots and one building, $5 love and affection and assumption of a mortgage. Home health services group is organized Mrs. Sara Jackson was re cently elected chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Home Health Services Program. Other officers elected were A. F. Busby, Vice-Chairman and Mrs. Helen Foy, Secretary. The purpose of the Advisory Committee is to act in an ad visory or consultative capacity to the Home Health Services Program. Home Health Services are available through the New berry County Health Depart ment which has been designated as the official agency for Home Health Services in the county. The functions of the commit tee will be varied, from making recommendations regarding the Home Health Services Program, to representing the general pub lic and special groups in rela tion to community needs and methods of meeting them through Home Health Services. The Committee will also ap prove policies covering skilled nursing and other therapeutic services before establishment Turning points have a way of slipping by un noticed. Their significance is often apparent only after years have passed. But in 1968, a major turning point in modern medicine was immediately recognized when a vaccine to prevent ‘*Rh dis ease” was approved by the Federal Government. For the first time in history, doctors have the means to pre vent a major cause of birth defects. The remarkably effec tive Rh vaccine, called “Rho- GAM,” promises to eradicate a condition which each year threatens an estimated 40,000 babies with death or damage before or soon after birth. ‘‘The Rh vaccine is so im portant to potential parents and to the health of so many future children, no one can afford to overlook its avail ability,” says Dr. Virginia Ap- gar, vice president for medical affairs for The National Foun dation-March of Dimes. The voluntary health or ganization. which initiated a national campaign against birth defects ten years ago after the conquest of polio was assured, has undertaken an aggressive education pro gram to inform the public about the new preventive for Rh disease. Through radio, TV, magazines, newspapers and leaflets distributed at mar riage license bureaus and other outlets, young people are urged to have a doctor or clinic check their blood for Rh factor identification. The Rh factor is a part of the blood which is found in about 85 per cent of the popu lation. Those who have it are called Rh positive; those who don’t are Rh negative. Whether an individual has the Rh fac tor or not makes no difference to his or her own health. But it can cause serious Rh disease in children if a mother is Rh negative and the father Rh positive. In such a case, if the unborn child inherits the father’s blood type, the mother’s sys tem may react against the child she is carrying. This rarely occurs in a first preg nancy, but the danger rises in subsequent pregnancies with the result that a child may die in the womb or be bom severely anemic and jaundiced due to “erythroblastosis fet alis,” the medical term for Rh disease. An injection of the new vac cine, given to an Rh negative mother within 72 hours after the birth of each Rh positive baby, prevents an adverse re action in the mother’s blood which can endanger future offspring. For those women who have already been sensitized by previous births, the Rh vac cine is ineffective. But new techniques of giving blood transfusions to unborn babies can save many Rh babies who might otherwise be stillborn. And exchange transfusions immediately after birth protect 95 per cent of the babies bom alive with Rh disease. Effective as these corrective measures are, The National Foundation-March of Dimes considers prevention of birth defects through universal use of the vaccine far more de sirable. For the same reason, March of Dimes volunteers are al ready preparing for another turning point in medicine, hopefully within the next few months, when Federal approval is given to a vaccine to pre vent German measles. This deceptively mild infec tion, also known as rubella, can cause serious birth defects of the heart, eyes, ears and other organs when an expec tant mother contracts it during the early months of pregnancy. More than 20,000 damaged ba bies were bom to mothers who had the virus infection during the epidemic which swept the United States in 1964-65. German measles vaccines are now being tested. As soon as a safe and effective one is licensed, March of Dimes vol unteers will spearhead efforts to make sure that every po tential mother is protected against the disease, thus chalk- up another advance in their unrelenting campaign to pre vent birth defects.