During the first five months
of this year wo baJ, roughly, 101
children immunized for small pox,
70 children against diphtheria,
129 against typhoid, 70 against
whoopine cough and 75 Schick test
ed. When one realizes that each
child protected against small pox
has to be seen at least twice
after the vaccination, that diph
eria takes the administration of
two doses, a month apart, nn^ a
fellow up by a Schick test for the
determination of immunity; that it
takes throe doses of whocr>ing coug
vaccine to confer protection; and
the same for typhoid; one can re
alize that immunization on such n
scale can be made possible only
when organized effort is put for
ward; effort requiring a good deal
cf tine and attent* n of an inter
ested professional individual.
It Is a complete impossibility
f< r every parent t«. be a special
ist in infant care and management,
keen abreast of latest development
on nutrition for all age- levels,
understand the health and emotion
al problems of the school child
and the r-d^les-ent, posses enough
scientific facts pertaining to
rt S
generr1 health to permit safe
supervision of the physical health
of a family, and ~c about brear
innint and heme carlne. Thera has
o be some one in the community to
give tssistr.nco to the family all
along. the line.
Con a service as just describee
exist anrl thrive through the
efforts of just one individual?
Can it be imposed upon a community
from above, thru |.h police or sim
ilar pewer? Can a community con
tinue forever to accept services
paid for through tax funds collect
ed elsewhere? Should not the com
munity learn to understand the nee ?
for such services well enough to
do something about havinfc them ,
once established? Shouldn't the
community learn to hove enough
conf idence in such servi ces to
help impose those limitations
which help toward greater freedoms
freedom from disease, from worries
eb^ut health? How can a community
undertake to work continually to-"
ward popular understanding and
support of a health service? Who
in the community should participate
in the group working toward such
purposes? And how can these
individuals brint every citizen’s
attention to these health goals?
The answer to all these questions
is a pepresentetive community
group interested in promoting
community health, i. ^roup whose
chief concern is:
1. to assist in interpreting the
the public health program to the
community in order to have it
adequately supported and used.
2. To assist in maintaining high
standards of service.
3. To assist in developing a co
operative program with a ll of
the organized croups in the
community.
h There is one more place where
such a <_roup has a definite and
i mp o r t r n t function. N o t v; - c om
munities are ever completely a 1 ike
in the individual peculiar*t1es of
the people they are composed of, in
the problems resultin0 from human
interactions an'1 nature's influences.
Any new individual coming to ad- r*
minister a health service has many
a pitfall to avoid. The community
should provide some sign posts,
give some interpretation of itself
to a new person.
LOCAL NEWS
Russell Annabel, V.'ar Correspon
dent with the i.L.C. for U.P. was
a visitor in Palmer today. Re In
spected the Co- p installations
accompanied by Manager Stock.
Annabel had frontline experiences
in the Islr, n Is and thinks that
the Nips now realize that: they
are up against the real thing.
He wrote an article for Satevepost
recently that received considerable
attention and says that he might
write a serious article n the
Matanuska Valley, If he is proper
ly antagonized.
Bob Klem rep rts that another
Valley farmer has become or nscious
of the Mechanized 1 ge and wants
to roll around on rubber, listen
in^ t o the birds on the Radio.
Bob says that Pmil Kircher offer
ed to trade him his horses for the
whiskers Bob shaved off last sprinfa
when he came out of hibernating
so he can make a cushion for a
Gas Tractor Seat.
•if if if i;- if i;- it if if if i;- if i;
HOSPITAL NBWS
Tanin Lolohok is a new patient
in the t.b. ward.
Little four-yeor-old Ruth Nelson
daughter of Paul Nelson, had a
tonsillectomy on Wednesday and was
able to return to her homo the
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