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| Survey Shows Delinquency | j And Illness Greatest In Same DistrictLittle red and green dots on a map ! in the offices of Dr. T. J. McCamant, j City-County Health Unit director, show the concentrated centers of*1disease, death and juvenile delin-j quency in El Paso.Dr. McCamant keeps the map to show his major problems of disease control and infant mortality. A check of County Probation officer Jack Quinn’s records showed that delinquency is greater in the same districts where disease and death flourish—South El Paso.The Health Unit has reduced the infant death rate from 132 in 1933 to 81 this year. Dr. McCamant expects the ratp to go below 80 by Jan. 1.The decreasing rate resulted chiefly from efficient health centers on the southside and an increase in thestaff of nurses.“When we first started after this thing, there were only three nurses for this whole section,” Dr. McCam-* Want said moving his hand across the map on the southside area that held more than 80 per cent of the red and green dots.“Now we hav eight nurses and three health centers:”
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Mon, Oct 12, 1936
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