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I LOOKING OVER
OUR DISTRICT'S HEALTH
X By DB- w- K- McDOWELE, Health Officer
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For the past several weeks
: poliomyelitis has been prevalent
throughout the Piedmont section
, Vpf our state, with an occasional
|J*ase having been reported in
widely scattered areas over the
entire state, During this time we
have anxiously followed the course
of the epidemic and, knowing that
poliomyelitis is essentially a dis
ease of warm weather, have more
or less expected to have one or
more cases reported here. Now
that one case has been reported,
I it is hoped that it will be accepted
calmly, but that the advice of
3^our physician and health depart
ment and the resolution adopted
|| by the Board of Health will be
rigidly adhered to.
In 1943 three cases were report
ed in the Edgecombe-Halifax
(^District, and in none of the
families in which the cases oc
curred was there a second case,
although in all there were other
children.
Much publicity has been given
Cthis disease recently and un
questionably everyone knows that
medical science has not gone as
far toward the complete solution
of the cause, methods of spread,
etc., of poliomyelitis as is the
case in many diseases. It is an
established fact, however, that
much can be done in the control
of the spread of the disease by
following a few often repeated
rules:
1. Keep children away from
crowds.
2. Keep children away from any
ill person, regardless of how mild
the illness may seem.
3. Call your' physician at the
first sign of illness and carefully
follow his instructions.
4. Do not travel into or through
the area where the disease is prev
alent.
5. Keep resistance up by proper
diet, rest, elimination, etc.
Above all the public should re
main calm and realize that every
summer some cases of poliomyeli
tis has been reported in North
Carolina and frequently there has
’•een some in our own county.
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The big offensive in the battle
against malnutrition began Sep
tember when the Nation’s Food
Fights For Freedom program
turned its attention to gool All
American nutrition.
In this the third year of Ameri
ca’s participation in the war, there
is a deeper appreciation of 'the
vital role of food in wartime than
ever before. Since May 1943, the
Nutrition Programs Branch of the
War Food Administration’s Office
of Distribution has assisted with
nutrition clinic demonstrations
which have shown that there is
widespread malnutrition through
out the country. In the past this
condition might have been asso
ciated with low income. Today,
however, spending power is at an
all-time high an* with fewer goods
and services available, civilians
who have an increased income are
spending much of it on food—but
not always the right food.
In line with the growing recog
nition of food’s importance is the
creation of the National Nutri
tion Program, the aim of which
is to show people how to adjust
their eating habits to a wartime
situation.
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proposition that total war demands
total strength, and that total
strength demands good nutrition.
It recognizes that eating should
mean more than satisfying hunger.
It should provide the body daily
with the right kinds of food in
suitable amounts to furnish energy
—to provide material for building
and repairing the body—to fur
nish substances to regulate body
processes.
The solution then would seem to
lie in educating the food purchas
er to obtain 100 percent nutrition
value from the foods available—•
and that is the mission of the
National Wartime Nutrition Pro
gram.
Working with the Federal or
ganization are nearly 3,000 State,
county and local nutrition com
mittees which include in their
membership experienced nutrition
ists, dietitians, home economists,
physicians, dentists, and represen
tatives of agencies, civic groups,
and the food trade.
Cornerstone of the program is
the new and revised Official War
time Food Guide showing the
“Basic 7” categories of food which
should be eaten every day. The
program will receive major em
phasis from national advertisers
and retailers and in national mag
azines and over the radio which
will feature better breakfasts and
better lunches for all, but especi
ally for school children and war
workers.
Nutrition — in every day lan
guage-means eating three well
balanced meals a day — built
around the “Basic 7”—appetizingly
served and properly cooked to pre
serve all the food values.
Your County Nutrition Commit
tee is sponsoring a series of radio
programs on the basic 7 foods,
each week, Wednesday at 10:45 a.
m. Last week Mrs. Lloyd Sandlin
and Mrs. Cooper Cannon appeared
on the program. Be sure and tune
in next week.
TOWiHALK
Morgan Babb, of the Merchant
Marines, has been visiting rela
tives in town and will return to
Norfolk, Va., this -week.
Mrs. Joseph Taylor and daugh
ter, Jo Ann, Mr. and Mrs. F. L.
Tidwell and children Bobby and
Evon, of Norfolk, Va., spent the
week-end with Mr. and Mrs. P. T.
Taylor.
Miss Jeanette Rook, of Ports
mouth, Va., spent the week-end
with her mother, Mrs. Paul Rook.
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Hodges,
Miss Patricia Hodges and Mrs.
Joe Wood spent last Wednesday
in Richmond, Va.
Mrs. Bill Roberts, Jr., has re
turned from Norfolk, Va., after
visiting her husband who is sta
tioned there. ,
Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hux left
Sunday for a visit to Port Wayne,
Ind.
Mrs. George O. Roberts, of 1017
Henry Street, has received word
that her husband, S/Sgt. George
O. Roberts, has arrived safely in
England.
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Lt. Murrell Hudson, of Aberdeen,
Md., is spending a 14-day furlough
in town with his wife and parent*,
Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Hudson.
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Tickle
:pent last week-end in Alexandria,
7 a.
Mrs. W. J. Berry, of Raliegh,
spent last week with Mr. and Mrs.
A. D. Waters.
Miss Lola Peed, Miss Katherine
Johnson and Mrs. Marjorie John
son visited in Alexandria, Va., last
week.
Jack and Allen Waters, of Wash
ington, D. C., E. Bellamy of De
:roit, Mich., Harry Waters, of
Hampton, Va., Mrs. Louise Myriclc
snd son Cecil, Mrs. E. D. Bell,
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Waters, of
Norfolk, Va., were called here
last week on acocunt of the ill
ness of P. D. Waters.
Miss Jacqueline Armstrong be*
returned to Richmond, Va., where
she will continue her training in
nursing at Medical College Hos
pital.
Mrs. B. D. Johnson, of Wilson,
s spending this week with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Ed
monds.
DEFENSE IN DEPTH
The farthest advance of the Ger
mans into Russia encompassed
roughly one-sixteenth of all the
Soviet Union’s territory.
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