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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (June 21, 1940)
Juno 21, 1940 THE NEWS AND THE HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, ORE. PAGE THIRTEEN Organization, Duties of Health Departments Told By County Medical Agent By DR. PETER ROZENDAL The organisation, character of duties, mid scope of I Imltn tlona of thu powers of licullli depurt Incuts iiro dependent upon tlio liovornnicnt of which It li u part tlovornmcnt In Its relationships mid policies reflects existing soclnl philosophy; and tlio latter, in turn, Is thn current outcome of tradition, history, race, as pirations the mores of the pco plo concerned. In the early days of develop ment of county heulth work, and up to about public health administrators and the public 'wera quite sutlsflod too much so In fact, with n mere nucleus hoalth service This Is not sur prising. Tlio Idea that group of workers should give all their tlnio to the public health prob lem of a county wts new thing. Public officials and the medical profession had been ac customed to thinking of health activities us procedures tempor ary In nature, not to be called Into piny except In the face of epidemics and In those circum stances strength of shotgun quar antine had always secured more points and was certainly more dramatic than anything that could be done by the community physician. Today when one refers to rural health units or county hoalth departments, ha has In mind u group of persons made up of one or more doctors, , saiilturlun or sunltury engineer, one or more public health nurses, and clerk, or clerks. I'robnbly the two Influences most respons ible for the curly development of full-1 line county health serv ice were the itockefrller Sani tary commission and the United States Public Health service. Health and sanitary problems created by suburban settlements perhaps served to hasten devel opment!. The problems of sanitation arose and persisted largely be caus of man's tendancy to form fixed abodes. The moment fami lies congregated to form clans, and clans to form tribes. In like proportion would communal liv ing tend to become permanent; and the larger the family or clan and the more fixed the abodo, the greater was the accumula tion of rubbish, waste and ex creta, and the more Intense was Hie pollution of the water sup ply. This Is the ancestor of the village, the small town, and the metropolitan center. As long as tlicjo various ele ments remain in balance, dis eases which might be spread through insanitary conditions tend to remain at fairly low epi demic level. Hut upset this bal ance in either direction, and one of two things Is likely to occur; either there Is in Increased pre valence, or the epidemic level sinks to new low. Thus It is posslblo for sanitation so to elim inate the dangers of communal living, or so to prevent or neu tralize channels of Infectlvlty, that year by year these diseases become more Infrequent. Sani tation is the prevention of dis ease by eliminating or control ling the environmental facton which may form links In the chain of transmission. These environmental factors Include milk, food and water supplies, wastes, Insect carriers, housing, dralnago and many others. These Involve problems which may be considered the specialty of the sanitarian or sanitary engineer. Klamath county Is fortunate In having a recognized labora tory In which establishment of the actual presence of disease, detection of carriers, and analyses of water, milk and foods ore made. The county sanitarian or uni tary engineer work under the direction of the county health officer. Advice and consulta tion are received from tlio health officer In the division of sanitary engineering of the state board of health. The work pro gram pertaining to sanitation consists of: public and private water supplies, sewage disposal public and private systems school sanitation and hygiene, In which is an Inspection of the water supply, sewage disposal. ventilation, heating, lighting. construction of buildings, milk supply and swimming pools. In spections are also made of tourist and trailer camps, pic nic parks, Industrial and agricul tural camps as to compliance with the stato law and rules and regulations of the state board of health, At the request of the county health officer, food estab lishments, restaurant, dairy and milk plants, and nuisance com plaints are Investigated. In spections as to compliance with the state plumbing code are also among the duties of the sani tarian or sanitary engineer. Ill summing up, your county health department functions are: to provide a safe and adequate water supply, suitable disposal of human wastes, safe and ade quate food supply, disposal of gurbago and refuse, the control of Intermediate sources of dis ease transmission, the cleaning up of the environment, such as the abatement of public health nuisances, and lastly, but not least, tho education of the In dividuals of a community In per sonal and community hygiene. It has been said that "no sub ject Is more Intimately con nected with the happiness and prosperity of a people than the degree of public health that they enjoy." During the winter, planes from the U. S. Coast guard con ducted an aerial ice survey In cooperation with icebreakers on the Hudson river. The plunes dropped lead-filled "bombs" on the Ice from an altitude of S00 feet. If the Ice broke. It was thin enough for ships to pass. Fruit of coffee plants are known as cherries by planters. 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