HEALTH PROBLEMS
TOLDK1WAN1ANS
County Official Points Ou1
Prospects of Disease Con
tagion in District
Dr. A. H. Elliot, county health
officer, talked to the Kiwanis clut
yesterday on the public health sit
ration. , , ,
He reported that while there had
oeen outbreaks of minor epidemic
diseases during the last year, such
as grip, chickenpox and measles,
the city or county had not been
seriously threatened by a major
spidemic at any time.
He told of the advance made not
only in controlling meningitis bu>
in cutting the cost of treatment.
A few years ago, when the medi
cal profession had but one system
of treatment—by anti - toxin — the
cost ranged up to $150 per patient.
During the meningitis threat four
years ago a federal health bureau
aide, called into consultation, told
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of results obtained with sulfanila
mide, and suggested that the nexl
case be treated with it. A child
stricken wif’i the disease was giver
| this new drug and in 10 days was
able to be returned to its home
after consuming 45 cents worth ol
sulfanilamide.
Doctor Elliot said it would nol
do to call 'Ms drug a specific, bul
that the results of its use in menin
gitis aad been "more than satis
facory.”
Infani- - paralysis, he said, had
not fastened upon Wilmington or
New Hanover county, although a
few isolated cases had developed
after the patients had visited this
city. He urged his listeners ta
avoid hysteria if this disease were
discovered' here; a possibility, he
said, that must not be overlooked
in view of the large influx, of new
population. He seemed confident
that there is no danger of a serious
o-tbreak, and encouraged . the
thou, ht that there might not be
single caso of the paralytic form
of the disease.
The new population, he ex
plained, is bound to c te new
dangers of disease, certainly new
exposures, but on the whole pres
ent health conditions and the out
look for the future are good.
ollowing Doctor Elliot’s talk,
Major Bob Cowan, the Salvation
Army’s USO representative and a
Kiwanian, entertained the mem
bers wi'h exhibitions of magic.
George Norris of Danville, Va.,
lieutenant governor of Kiwanis.
was a guest. 1
Barrage Balloon Unit
Organizes Camera Club;
Plan to Exhibit Work
Members of the newly organized
Camera club of Battery A, 301st
Barrage Balloon Battalion, have
decided to hold a weekly photogra
phy contest with battery officers
serving as judges. The best pic
tures submitted will be placed on
display in the battery day room.
Photographs will be judged for
subject matter and the amount of
skill required to produce them. The
members also voted to cooperate
closely with the battery publicity
department, attempting to produce
pictures with "reader appeal” for
publication in newspapers and pe
riodicals.
Pvt. J. H. Kelly is resident of
the club and Pvt. L. C. Visciano is
i treasurer. Instruction in dark
room technique has begun. Mem
bers of the club who are proficient
photographers will teach novices
how to mix the chemicals and how
to use dark room equipment. 2
“TOTAL LOSS”—Smoke pours skyward from the Finnish
freighter Aurora, as fireboats fight a mystery blaze that
destroyed the ship, anchored in the Hudson river off Man
hattan. The first mate was killed and the captain severely
burned. Since the spectacular fire came on the heels of the
fire that gutted the freighter Panuco in Brooklyn, FBI
agents are investigating possible sabotage.
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Grand Jurors Denounce
County Women’s Prison
The New Hanover county grand
jury, winding up its deliberations
for the August term of criminal
court, yesterday handed down a
scathing denunciation of the de
plorable condition of the women's
division and the negro insanity
ward at the county farm.
The report, finding other county
owned and operated departments
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m good condition, urged that the
countv take immediate steps to
make more room aVailable for the
women prisoners at the farm and
that needed repairs be made
throughout the setup where deem
ed necessary to the health of the
inmates.
The statement, handed to Judge
Walter J. Bone in superior court,
pointed out that conditions were
such in the woman’s prison divis
ion that there were insufficient
bedding for them, and that at pres
ent mattresses were having to be
thrown about the ffoors of the
building to provide sleeping facili
ties.
As a possible means of relieving
this situation, the jurors recom
mended that the county take steps
at once to find ways and means to
complete the WPA-sfarted hospital
on the farm property. How the
county should go about this was
left to the discretion of commis
sioners.
In the negro insanity ward it
was said that about half of the toi
lets in the building were out of or
der, creating an unsanitary condi
tion. It also stated that the ceil
ings were crumbling and falling
upon the floors because of leakage
from a roof in bad need of repairs.
Howard A. Hanby, foreman, in
handing down reports of the jury’s
findings, stated that the fire depart
ment buildings were found in ex
cellent condition except for a few
instances.
Tires on the rear of all trucks at
the Fourth and Campbelll and
Seventeenth and Dock streets sta
tions were deemed unfif for fur
ther use and were described as
hazards to the public safety.
The fire boat wharf was also
scored and the city was asked to
take immediate steps for rebuild
ing or repairing it to make it safe
for firemen. It was pointed out
that in sections of the wharf there
was only a 12 inch plank over
which foremen could walk.
The jury examined during its
brief session 67 witnesses, return
ed 20 true bills and conducted four
investigations.
Tobacco Workers Warned
To Secure Security Cards
Farm workers who have seasonal
jobs in tobacco warehouses and fac
tories in this part of the state must
have social Security cards, officials
said here today.
Many already have their cards
and should not, of course, get an
other since one is good for a life
time of work. Immediate application
should be made by those who have
not yet filed their cardT’since em
ployers now do not usually put peo
ple to work without them.
The Wilmington office of the So
cial Security Board will furnish a
card to anyone who applies, if a
number has already been assigned
but the card has been lost, the ap
plicant should ask for a duplicate.
The Wilmington office of the So
cial Security board is in room 101,
Customshouse.
Community Hospital Plans
Annual Capping Ceremony
Officials of the Community hos
pital and the nursing staff, yester
day announced their first annual
capping service to be held in the
classroom of the nurses home, Fri
day evening. They have planned an
appropriate program to begin
promptly at 8 o’clock,
j The public is cordially invited to
attend both the exercises and social
hpur to follow.
SHIP MOVEMENTS
GIVEN PRIORITIES
President Roosevelt Author
izes Maritime Commission
to Issue Warrants
WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.— Wt —
Acting under a new law, President
Roosevelt issued an executive or
der today authorizing the Maritime
commission to issue warrants to
certain ships giving them priority
in the movement of materials
needed for national defense.
Such vessels would have first
call on wharfage facilities, loading
and unloading and other facilities
needed to insure prompt delivery
of defense products.
The President’s order said the
national defense, including the
maintenance of essential supplies
and services, required that provis
ion be made through the issuance
of warrants to “insure the prompt
delivery of materials essential to
the national defense through, (1)
the importation of substantial
quantities of strategic and critical
materials, (2) the transportation of
substantial quantities of materials
requested by defense agencies,
and (3) the transportation in the
foreign or domestic commerce of
the United States of substantial
quantities of materials essential to
the defense of the United States.”
State Prison Escapee __
Voluntarily Returns
To Complete Sentence
RALEIGH, Aug. 27.—(£)—Wil
liam Fentress, who had lived
quietly in Washington state since
his escape from the Orange county
prison camp over eight years ago,
returned voluntarily to Central
prison today to finish paying his
debt to society.
.Fentress walked into the office
of Prison Director Oscar Pitts and
explained that he wished to com
plete a two-year term imposed on
him in Guilford county on October
28, 1932, for kidnaping.
He said that since his escape
on January 17, 1933, he had lived
in Whidbey Island, Wash.
‘‘I had chances for plenty of
good jobs,” he said, “but they
ask plenty- of questions and I was
not going to lie and just took what
I could get. So I decided to come
back and pay my debt.”
He received the two-year sen
tence after pleading nolo conten
dere to a charge that he kidnapd
a 12-year-old school girl. 2
Captured Prison Inmate
Reveals Companion Lost
While Fording N.C. Rivet
RALEIGH, Aug. 28.—W—Prisor
Director Oscar Pitts reported to
Jay the recapture of an escapee
convict who said that a man who
got away with him from the David
son county prison camp Monday
. had drowned in the Yadkin river
.neaf Salisbury.,
Pitts said the recaptured man
was James Henry McMillan, negro
serving a one-year term imposed
[ in Chatham county last January
for larceny, driving reckless
without a license, and dai1 *ni1
property. arnaging
McMillan reported. Pittc
that Sherman Smith, negrn 'h Saij'
ed while the two were atw^
to swim the Yadkin river
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