25 Patients In
Ashe Hospital
The following were patients in
Ashe county Memorial hospital
last week: Mrs. Elsie Miller,
Whitetop, Va.; Sherman Myers,
West Jefferson; Mrs. Dewitt
Stansberry, Lansing; Mrs. Wil
lard Hart. Lansing; Sherman
Brooks, Clifton; Mrs. Dewitt
| Price and daughter, Creston;
Mrs. Wayne Ferguson and daugh
ter, Jefferson; Mrs. Lee Jones,
Clifton.
Mrs. Edward Greer and son,
Ball; Mrs. Dollie Miller and
daughter, Glendale Springs; Mrs.
Robert Keller, Fleetwood; Mrs.
Elmer Triplett and son, Wilbar;
Mrs. Joe Denny and son, Lan
sing; Branscom Darnell, Glen
dale Springs; Mrs. Lundy Severt
and son, Glendale Springs; Mrs.
Grady Brown and daughter.
West Jefferson.
Blair Thompson, Grassy Creek;
Suzanne Gentry, West Jeffer
son; Miss Anne Farrington, Jef
ferson; Mrs. Cathleen Blevins,
and daughter, Bina; Miss Car
leen Osborne, Scottville; Mrs.
George Perkins and daughter,
Nathan’s Creek; Emily Houck,
Grassy Creek; Mrs. Elizabeth Ro
ten, Treetop; and Miss May
Greer. Whitetop, Va.
New Magazine On
Crops Ami Soils
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Ashe county farmers and
others interested in agriculture
have a new easv-to-read maga
zine now available to them. Car
rying the latest developments in
crops and soils, the magazine is
published by the American So
ciety of Agronomy.
H. D. Quezsenhcrrv. county
agent for the State College Ex
tension Service. pointed out
that tin' magazine is designed
Need Of Expanded Hospital
Service For County C i t e d
ASIIE BOYS MEET
Cpl. James Howard Younce
son of Mr. and Mrs. Lcn
Younce, Todd, recently met
up with Elma Johnson, from
Grassy Creek, in Alaska.
to fill the j|ap between the
scientific journal and the pop
ular farm magazines.
“What's New in Crops and
Soils,” will be directed to men
who are not technically trained,
but who have a serious interest
in accurate and authoritative
reports on farm crops and soil
management.
Mr. Quessenberry said in dis
cussing the magazine. “Probably
the most important factors con
cerned in the world food situa
tion today are crops and soils.
Certainly the new crops ana
tillage practices should be of
major importance to every far
mer m our county.”
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PAULINE J. IIAIRE. Manager
West Jefferson. N. C.
j Out of a total of 632 live
births in Ashe county in 1947
records of the state board ol
health show that 411 occurred in
a hospital and 221 occurred out
side a hospital or in circum
stances unknown. This means
that 34.97 per cent of the coun
ty’s live births last year occur
red without benefit of hospital
facilities for mother and child,
i The records further show that
in 43 counties of the state Iasi
1 year a majority of the live
births occurred outside a hospi
tal. In the state as a whole the
' percentage born outside a hos
1 pital was 35.17. Among the IOC
I counties, Ashe ranked 35th in
' per cent of live births that oc
curred without such facilities,
i In one county (Hyde) in 1947
the majority of live births did
not even have the attendance o1
a physician and in a score ol
; other counties the proportion ol
births without such attendance
was between one third to nearly
one half.
A physician was in attendance
at 561 of the Ashe births, but 7C
had only the attention of a mid
wife and one had other or un
known attendance, records show
I In the same year, the count?;
had a total of 21 infant deaths
and four maternal deaths.
Of the infant deaths, sever
occurred in a hospital and 14
outside a hospital or in circum
stances unknown. A physician
was in attendance at 15 of the
1 deaths and the remaining six had
no attention of a physician oi
occurred in circumstances un
known.
Of the maternal deaths, twr
took place in a hospital, and
two occurred outside a hospital
A physician was in attendance nl
all" of the deaths.
As another aspect of the A hi
county health picture, record
show that the county budget foi
(public health service for the fis
cal year 1947-43. total-d $11,941
or .527 per capita. Ot teis total
j local sources contributed $5,021
or .222 per capita: the state con
j trihuted $3.1139 or .136 per capita
and $3.3-33 or .169 per capitr
came from the federal govern
- ment.
Of the 96 counties which spent
money for public health service
j Ashe county ranked 73th in total
per capita expenditures.
Another indication of Ashe’s
health rating can he found in the
fact that from 1940 to January
1, 1945. the county had a total
draft rejection of 49.98 per cent
according to the Institute for
Research in Social Science of the
state university. Among the
counties Ashe ranked 65th in pel
cent of total rejections. In per
centage of white rejections the
county' ranked 94th, with a rate
of 49.86 per cent._
Authors of the stories in the
new national magazine are the
scientists and information work
! ers at every agricultural college
| in the country and with many
commercial firms. Many of these
I men are members of the profes
jsional. non-profit Agronomy' So
i cicty. and are leading the c'of
! and soil improvement work.
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