Duplin County Health Services Staff
Left to right: L.H. Sikes, Joe Costin, Lula Williams,
? Eileen Whitfield, Sue Sutton, Lee Brock, Jo Ann
Cavenaugh, Gail Sikes, Jervine Smith, Marie Miller,
Sam Glasgow, Bonita Fountain, Alice Tuten, Lynn
Fussell, Ruth Harper, Ronnie Kennedy, Elnora
Stanley, Betty Sue Rose, Beaty Dobson and Sarah Inez
Hodges. Not in the picture: Ruth Cooper, Helen
Ballard, Debra Beasley, Doris Bizzell, Becky Brown,
Cindie Carlton, Mildred LaCoe and Grace Newton.
Duplin County Health Services
The office/clinic building shown above has been the home of the health
) department since 1954. It is located behind the courthouse and was built the
same year as the hospital and the South Wing Annex.The recent addition of a
new A-frame roof has changed the outside appearance.
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Keeping The Public Informed
Health education is one of the major services offered to the public. Through
r__ health education, individuals and groups can acquire information and skills
for making responsible decisions about their health. Debra Scott Beasley,
health educator, explains some of the services and information that are
available to everyone. Keeping the public informed and up-to-date on all the
services available, supplying informative and accurate literature, films and
programs to the public on various health topics are vital functions of the
department. '
New Records System
Shown above are Jo Ann Cavenaugh. receptionist and Marie Miller, clerk,
| using the new records filing system. Complete and accurate records are kept
on all clients. The files have expanded in recent years due to the increased
numbers of Duplin County citizens using the services available. There are
approximately 20,000 records on file.
South Wing Annex Offices
The South Wing Annex Offices, formerly used as quarters by the hospital
nurses, now houses the Environmental Health staff and the Administrative
offices of the health department on the second floor. Recent additions in staff
and programs required moving thee above offices from the main building to
the South Wing Annex. The Building Inspection department is also located on
the second floor.
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Service Offered
A check on blood pressure is one of the many services offered by the health
department. Show above, Sarah Izez Hodges, R.N., performs this vital
service for one of the thousands of Duplin. County citizens who uses the
services available.
Healthy
Living
During the early 1940s, only three
employees were working ? Mary
Lee Sykes, Louise Carter Bullock and
the sanitarian, and of course the
health director. In 1945, Donnie
Outlaw was employed as secretary.
Mrs. Outlaw was employed, with the
exception of a year or two, until she
retired in 1980.
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These early years saw the health
department actively involved with
the county's health problems and
prevention. The ongoing programs
were: TB, water supplies, sewage
disposal, foodhandling, venereal di
sease, immunization, pre-natal care,
well-baby clinics and school health.
In 1948, the health department
was able to obtain the use of the "TB
Bus" during the summer months.
This was a mobile chest X-Ray unit
that traveled throughout the county
making thousands of chest x-rays in
the TB program. Ruby Kornegay
operated this unit.
The number of employees in
creased in the early 1940s. New staff
members included Ruby Carter Kor
negay, Donnie Outlaw, Fanny
Robertson, Mary Alice Whitfield,
Mildred Currie Pridgen and Mary
Wells Bowden. Jesse Canady
worked for the count as sanitarian
for a while, sometin e in the early
1940s.
Later, Jesse was ? ;plo\ed by the
state and served dis-rict sani
tarian until he re i t -w years
ago. After Cana ! y ">? ; ii. vjj.y served
as sanitarian for f> m < My for a
short time. Follow in . Scas sani
tarian was William '(? I Buck.
Also employed about this o>>e (the
late 1940s and earlv IOS(K nurses
were Sarah Inez Barclas Hodges,
Helen Batts Ballard. Norma Hill
Candrena and Kosemona Brock. In
1952, Joe Lee Costin came to the
department as sanitarian and in 1955
"Bill" Byrd was employed as a
second sanitarian for a short time.
From 1961 -1973 Maurice Holmes
was the county sanitarian.
New Health Center
The year 1954 was a milestone in
the growth and development of the
health department. It was at this
time that the department moved into
its own building, a new 4,000
square-feet office/clinic complex
built at a cost of "only" $63,000.
This year, the health department is
celebrating its 30th year in this same
building. Additions to the building
were made around the 1970s.
Present
Interestingly enough, the early
programs and clinics are still the
heart of Public Health, through the
years, much progress has been made
in public health. The results are
evident by our healthier families and
environment.
Look at a few facts listed: 1) In
1927, 20,000 cases of whooping
cough were reported: in 1981, only
12. 2) In 1928, 60,000 cases of
measles were reported, and in 1981,
only three. 3) North Carolina has the
largest network of fluoridated school
water supplies in- the nation; 119
schools. Duplin County has seven of
these. Dental disease has been
reduced bv 38 percent in our
county's schools. 4) In North
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