PECK SPEAKS TO
CLARA HEARNE
P.-T. A. GROUP HERE
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T. B. Specialist
Says Disease Is
Heavy In County
Dr. W. M. Peck, X-Ray special
ist and member of the staff of
the State Sanatorium, speaking be
fore the Parent-Teachers associa
tion of the Clara Hearne school
last Wednesday, warned of the
prevalence of tuberculosis in this
section and told of methods to be
invoked to prevent the increased
evidence of the disease.
Dr. Peck, who conducted a se
ries of tubercular X-ray clinics in
the county during the past few
weeks in cooperation with the
County Health Department, stated
that Roanoke Rapids has a great
deal of tuberculosis, probably
more than anywhere else in the
State.
"The large number of X-rays for
extensive study of tuberculosis,”
the specialist pointed out, “are
finding a lot of tuberculosis ev
erywhere. The skin test for tu
berculosis on a child who has nev
er inhaled T. B. germ will be
negative because the child has
never been exposed. However, he
will inhale the germs from some
person who has it. Nothing more
will happen for a month. Then,
the skin test will become positive.
If an X-ray is taken at that time,
they will find a large spot. Pri
marily tuberculosis is not active on
a child. A child cannot give this
disease to anyone else. The child
usually gets better. He may be
run-down and have a little cough
if he is weak to start with. This
type of tuberculosis will leave a
little spot of calcium. The child
may live the rest of his life in
good health.
"In adolescence the child may
come in contact with tuberculosis
again. If, when 18, he comes in
contact with another case, there
will be a different start. He will
become sick. Cavities will form
in his lungs, and he can give it
to another person.
"As you can see, the far most
important factor in control will be
finding the active places and iso
lating them so that they can’t
come in contact with other people.
It takes two contacts in order to
develop the disease.
“There is a lot of tuberculosis
In Halifax County at this time,”
the doctor said. "Most of the pa
tients have been uncooperative
and stay at home not caring that
they are giving it to their families.
We have four or five new cases
at this time. These that are not
cooperative give the disease to ev
erybody they come in contact with.
Some of them have open tubercu
losis and have had it for years
and refuse to do anything about
it. This group of patients, to
whom you cannot do anything a
bout the disease until you can do
something about them, will keep
on having tuberculosis.
"One big thing we can do is to
persuade the people with tubercu
losis to go to the sanatorium until
they can be taken to the State
sanatorium so that someone there
can and will take care of them
better than you can take care of
a member of your own family."
As one method of helping to
combat the disease, Dr. Peck cited
his listeners to try to get a law
compelling them to go to the san
atorium, adding that we have
more than our share of people
who will not go to the sanatorium.
Another thing, he said, wad to
try to get more beds in the state
sanatorium so that all patients can
be hospitalized.
Birthday Party
Mesdames Dora Hawkins, Helen
Kee and F. M. Coburn gave their
sister, Mrs. Lucille Cherry, a sur
prise birthday party last Thursday
at the home of Mrs. Cherry. Mrs.
CSierry was invited on a visit, re
turning to find about thirty friends
in her living room. Several con
tests were given and Bingo was
played.
A lovely birthday cake centered
the dining table.
A salad plate with coffee was
served to the following: Mesdames
Irvin Powell, Frank Shearin, Lin
wood Allen, Bertha Allen, Carrie
Ivey, Eugene Etheridge, T. B. Tur
ner, J. O. Matthews, Sam Powell,
Edna Mitchell, Florence Robbins,
Emma Elmore, R. L. Meade, J. F.
May, Grady Pearson, Thomas
Cook, C. W. Cook, V. I. Hockaday,
M. E. Faison, Estelle Kee, Misses
Mary Lillian Meade, Susie Kee, Ma
ry Johnson, Howard Hawkins, and
Wrennie Elmore.
Mrs. Cherry received many gifts.
NEGRO
HEALTH
WEEK
Health Dept. Will
Assist In Program
For County Negroes
me Halifax County Health De
partment has mailed letters to e
very colored school principal in
the county and to all colored lead
ers asking them to plan at least
one program on health in each
community. Posters and bulletins
have been distributed to key com
munities. In these letters was in
cluded a list of the important
services rendered by the county
health department and complete
schedules, with dates and loca
tions. The children have been asked
to learn these services and to take
this information to every nook and
corner of the county.
Since the very first of the year
I have been asking the colored
people to learn the facilities that
are offered by their health depart
ment and to take advantage of
them. I am greatly pleased to see
that the text of the official Nat
ional Negro Health Week key ad
dress for radio broadcast, pre
pared by Dr. E. R. Coffey, As
sistant Surgeon General of the
United States Public Health Serv
ice, is as follows: "Get acquainted
with your community services to
promote health. Use those services.
Get acquainted with your health
department and find out what it
has to offer. Don’t wait for the
public health nurse to find you.
Go find the health department”
When I recently appealed to the
leaders of the colored race in this
county to work with the health
department in bringing their peo
ple to our clinics for such services
that would improve the health of
the Negro race, I was attacked
by some of these leaders for my
statement that their race needed
these services as badly as I in
dicated.
xu eiiipxmdiz*; my puiut uitii
these services are still needed and
that the death rates have not
been improved to the extent that
we can afford to relax our efforts
for one moment, I quote further
from the address of the Assistant
Surgeon General of the United
States Public Health Service,
which has just been released, “The
death rates for Negro mothers
and babies are twice those for
white mothers and infants. About
21,000 Negro infants die every
year before they are a year old.
Every year 2,300 Negro mothers
die from conditions arising from
pregnancy and child birth. The
number of these deaths can be
brought down. It is lower today
than it was ten years ago. But
too many mothers still die. Too
many babies die or are born dead.
If these • figures prevail for the
county at large, where the Negro
population is between five and ten
per cent, it shouldn’t be hard to
understand why I cry out for ac
tion here among the colored peop
le where the population is fifty
eight per cent of our total popu
lation. And please notice that the
keynote of this address is an ap
peal to the colored people to take
advantage of the services that are
offered them and is not a sermon
on poverty.
The County Health Department
will also examine all colored boys
during the Negro Health Week
in the junior and senior classes
and will examine the colored boys
and girls in the 4-H clubs to select
a Health King and Queen.
Motion pictures have been book
ed for the colored high schools
and health literature on tubercu
losis supplied by the Tuberculosis
Seal Committees throughout the
county will be distributed.
This will be one of the most ex
tensive health programs among
Negroes since the health depart
ment was organized twenty-three
years ago.
Robert F. Young, M. D.
County Health Officer.
BEER
CLEAN-UP
SOUGHT
The Brewers and North Caro
lina Beer Distributors Committee
today requested Roanoke Rapids
and Halifax county officials to
deny 1942-43 retail beer licenses to
undesirable persons.
Edgar H. Bain of Goldsboro,,
state director in charge of the
beer industry’s ‘clean up or close
up’ campaign in North Carolina,
cited the statute which prohibits
the issuance of retail beer li
censes to persons guilty of liquor
law violations and ‘to those who
are not of good character'. The
1942-43 tax year for beer licenses
begins May 1.
“We are writing again to be
speak your continued cooperation
in our efforts to .keep beer sales
in North Carolina from remaining
in the hands, or falling into the
hands, of undesirable persons”,
Colonel Bain wrote the local of
ficials. Similar letters were sent
to the governing bodies of 98
counties and 155 cities and towns.
“All retail beer licenses come up
for renewal on May 1,” the letter
continued. “We are certain- that
you will continue to scrutinize all
applications for licenses with great
care and deny licenses to those
who are not of good character.
Dr. and Mrs. A. M. Wooten Jr.
had as house guests on Friday,
April 3, Dr. Wooten's sister and
brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. R.
Etheridge of Norfolk and his
mother, Mrs. A. M. Wooten Sr. of
Pinetops.
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