Flies And Wells Aid
In Spreading Two
Common Diseases
Dr. Garriss Says Too
Much Dysentery Pre
vails In County
LESS TYPHOID
f ' Town’s Water Supply Is
Safe, According to
Health Officer
' “May and June are the months of
most frequent incidence of dysentery
and typhoid fever,” says Dr. F. H.
Garriss, health, officer for the Bertie-
Chowan health district, who also
warns that open wells and flies are
our two most dangerous sources and
carriers of these two diseases.
Commenting upon these two dis
eases, Dr. Garriss says:
“Flies get infection from open
privies and other types of open or
unprotected filth and carry it to our
kitchens, etc. Open wells become in
fected from yard or surface drainage,
from the hands of persons drawing
water, and from wash water spilled
back into the well. Os course, we all
know that the first source of the
" germ of infection of these two dis
eases is from human or animal in
testines. Also we all know that we
do not care to eat or drink anything
that comes from the contents of hu-
I man or animal intestines. But that
is exactly what we do when we eat
things that flies have crawled upon
or when we drink raw water from an
open well.
“The prevention of these two dis
eases, from a sanitary standpoint, is
to keep what we eat and drink and
our eating utensils protected from
flies and do not drink raw water from
open wells. It seems that the flies,
like the poor, have always been with
us and unless rigid and strict clean
up sanitation is applied and kept in
force, will always be with us. There
fore, our personal protection is effec
tive screening. Incidentally, this
screening will also protect us against
mosquitoes and, therefore, prevent
malaria.
The protection against open well
water can be effected by boiling same
before it is consumed. Boiled water
can be put in jugs and jars and
shaken or agitated to reincorporate
x the air into it that has been expelled
I by boiling, and then it will be as pala
table as though it had not been boil
er ed. Owing to the fact that open
well water can be boiled and made
safe is no excuse for using it because
the Town of Edenton has a good and
safe supply of water that is available
to all inhabitants of the town. Driv
en pump water, which is safe, can be
secured, open wells can be curbed
with terracotta, tops sealed with
concrete slabs and the water drawn
by means of a pump, all of which
will make an open well as safe as a
driven pump.
“There are in the Town of Edenton,
as we have estimated, over 50 of
these open wells that are potential
health nuisances, all of which should
be condemned. Os course, we do not
have the typhoid fever that we once
had because of vaccination but we
are having, every year, too much
dysentery among adults and babies
and especially among the latter, and,
as stated above, open wells and flies
are the chief causes of these two
diseases.”
Mrs. pariah Sexton
\ Funeral Held Sunday
Funeral services for Mrs. Mari ah
Sexton were conducted at Creswell
Sunday afternoon at the home of her
son with the Rev. J. T. Stanford in
charge. Interment was in the family
cemetery.
Active pallbearers were: Wi'l
Davenport, Abe Davenport, Ben Dav
enport, C. L. Barnes, Joe Williams
and J. I. Ainsley.
Mrs. Sexton, who was 67, died oh
Saturday evening at 6 o’clock, after
a lingering illness. A native of
Washington County, she was the
widow of the late L. A. Sexton. She
was a member of the old Bethlehem
Methodist Episcopal Church.
Surviving are the following sons
and daughters: S. D. Sexton and
Ralph Sexton, of Creswell; Mrs. Joe
Williams, of Creswell; Mrs. Thomas
Curlins and Mrs. R. A. Phelps, of
Gum Neck. Fourteen grandchildren
also survive.
The following out-of-town relatives
and friends attended the funeral: Mr.
and Mrs. Carlie Sexton, Mrs. Ida
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Mr. and Mrs. William Sexton, Calvin
Sexton, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Swindell
and children, Mr. and Mrs. Tom
Spruill, of Edenton; Mr. and Mrs.
Davis, of Rocky Mount; Mr. and Mrs.
Bowen Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse
Spencer, Mrs. Robbie Swain, Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie Midgette and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Swain, Mrs.
Sadie Swindell and Mrs. Anson Voliva
of Columbia, and Willie Armstrong,
of Gum Neck.
ENTERTAINS FRIENDS
Miss Orphia Cozart was hostess to
a few friends Saturday evening at
her home on East King Street. The
guests enjoyed dancing and Chinese
checkers. Dainty refreshments were
served. Those invited were Misses
Elizabeth Shaheen and Lena Smith,
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Lee Cates, and
Kermit Layden, Jesse Harrell and
Billy Gregory.
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Mrs. Roy Parks was in Edenton on
business Tuesday afternoon and was
the guest of her niece, Mrs. Jlaywood
Phthisic.
Mrs. C. C. Copeland, Mrs. T. L.
Ward and Mrs. Randolph Ward at
tended the County-wide Federation
meeting at Chowan High School on
Wednesday.
Miss Gertrude Jackson visited Mrs.
Gurney Byrum, at Cross Roads, on
Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. McEhrie Jordan, of
Chapanoke, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. N. E. Jordan Sunday.
T. L. Ward was in Edenton on
business Monday.
Mrs. T. J. Dilday has returned
from Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth
City. Her improvement is slow.
Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Davis and
daughter, Lois, of near Sign Pine,
were guests of Mrs. Harriet Parks at
dinner on Sunday. Other guests in
the afternoon were Mr. and Mrs. R.
S. Ward, and children, Lehman and
Lelia Faye.
William Ward spent Sunday in
Edenton with George Ward.
Mrs. H. N. Ward is in Edenton
with her son, E. J. Ward, and Mrs.,
Ward.
Miss Elizabeth Eason was in Eden
ton Tuesday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Carson Davis carried
their infant son to a doctor in Hert
ford Tuesday afternoon. The baby is
improving.
BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Chappell, of
Ryland, announce the birth of a son
on Wednesday, April 26.
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Roland Parrish, of Portsmouth,
1 Va., spent the week-end with his par
ents, Mr. and. Mrs. J. H. Parrish.
Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Bunch had as
1 dinner guests Sunday, Mabel and
Lessie Bunch, Elbert and Ellie Nixon.
I Lonnie Bunch visited Albert Bunch
■ at the Albemarle Hospital, Elizabeth
; City, Monday.
i Mrs. Jessie Nixon went to Norfolk.
• Va., Friday to visit her children and
I other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Nixon and
i sons sivent Sunday with Mrs. Nixon’s
father, John Nixon.
1 Miss Elizabeth Byrum called to see
• .Misses Elizabeth and, Josephine
Bunch Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Bunch and
family were supper guests of Mrs.
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Saturday evening.
Mr. and .Mrs. Ernest White and
son, of Edenton, visited Mr. and Mrs.
George Parrish Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cale and fam
ily were dinner guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. B. Bunch Sunday.
Mr. and, Mrs. J. D. Harrell and
family called to see Mr. and Mrs. I.
D. Harrell Sunday afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Bunch and
children visited Mr. and Mrs. J. B.
Bunch Sunday afternoon.
Miss Velma Jackson was the guest
of Miss Jessie Nixon Thursday even
ing.
Mrs. Bristow Perry and son, Carl
ton, from near Hertford, spent Tues
day with Miss Jessie Nixon.
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Miss Martha Weston Jones spent
the week-end at her home in Bel
haven.
Miss Isabel Davenport visited her
parents near Plymouth over the
week-end.
Mrs. E. S. Nooney and children, of
Norfolk, Va., are visiting her father,
W. M. Barnes, who remains ill at his
home near here.
Miss Julia Stilley spent the week
end at her home in Edwards.
Mrs. Mary Armstrong and. Miss
Grace Stillman spent the week-end
at Jacksonville, N. C.
Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Davenport, Sr.,
Miss Helen Kirkpatrick and the Rev.
Forest Wagoner attended the Rally
Day services of the First District of
the Methodist Protestant Church held
in Enfield Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Swindell and
children, Cullen and Carolyn, of
Edenton, were guests of Mr. and
Mrs. A. C. Harris on Sunday.
J. O. Barnes returned Saturday to
his home in Philadelphia, Pa., after
spending a few days with his father,
W. M. Barnes.
Miss Lois Goss, of Fuquay Springs,
is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. T.
Brooks.
A. C. Harris, Paul Spruill, Dr. and
Mrs. G. A. Martin, Haywood Spruill,
Miss Evelyn Swain and Miss Marjorie
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Bateman attended the Albemarle
Baptist Associational meeting at Oak
Grove Sunday.
J. S. Clough, of Columbia, was the
guest of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Clough
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Hopkins and
daughter, Ada Virginia, spent the
week-end in Robersonville.
Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Holmes, Mrs.
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Miss Caroline Swain spent Sunday in
Benson as guests of Mr. and Mrs. R
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Misses Sarah and Lula Tucker, of
Winterville, accompanied by Johnny
Tyndall, of Kinston, visited, their
brother, A. H. Tucker, and family on
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Anderson and
daughter spent the week-end in Wil-
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