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Newspaper
Cameron Herald
Location
Cameron, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1927
Page
10
Dr J C Anderson state health officer urges mosquito control programs in malaria districts. Campaign seeks community cooperation to remove breeding places and prevent malaria, which causes health and economic losses.
Practical householder guidance to prevent breeding by draining standing water and filling low spots. Advice covers covering rain barrels with kerosene, oiling refrigerator drains, cleaning gutters, emptying standing water in troughs and cans, stocking tanks and cisterns with minnows, and using 16 mesh screens to keep mosquitoes out.
The special session passed two major public health measures. A reorganization of the state health department creates a six member State Board of Health with the health officer as part of it and carries an emergency clause. The new vital statistics law requires precinct registrars reporting to the state health department, aiming for Texas to join the federal registration area within a year.
Chester Cohen, a sanitary engineer on leave for a Harvard post graduate course in water and sewage purification, has returned to Texas and resumed duties with the State department of health.
County and city officers reported May counts: chicken pox 91, dengue 35, diphtheria 93, dysentery 8, influenza 195, leprosy 5, malaria 704, measles 906, mumps 88, pellagra 23, pneumonia 37, poliomyelitis 4, scarlet fever 43, smallpox 321, trachoma 20, tuberculosis 109, typhoid fever 34, paratyphoid 1, whooping cough 177.
The column lists marriages: Rube Williams and Julia Carter. Vanburn Wilson and Cora Smith. Aborn J Kecka and Annie Mike ska. True Scarbrough and Melba Sanford. Joe Winkler and Bettie Fuchs. Eustacio Amaya and Nicomedes Halvarez.
J E Hunt Rockdale Ford touring. Leroy Massengale Maysfield Ford Roadster. R W Wilson Rockdale Chevrolet Touring. K S DeBusk Temple Dodge Sedan. Mrs George A Thomas Cameron Chev coach. A J Eisenmayer 131 acres out of M Davill league $1. W E Boydeaux to W A Jones Stroud Cameron Chev coupe. H C Heath Cameron Ford roadster. J E Thomas Rogers Dodge sedan. L H Schiller Buckholts Essex coach. D B Slocomb Cameron Chev. R J Sloan Milano Ford truck.
Mrs. Ansley Bowers of Toccoa, Stephens County, was hospitalized with serious injuries after a gang of about 12 hooded assailants abducted her and her son Lloyd from their home near Toccoa. They were driven to a remote road where both were flogged. Mrs. Bowers remains in hospital.
Urge to drink a quart of water daily plus four ounces of salts from a pharmacy to flush and stimulate kidneys. Describes salts made from grape acid and lemon juice with lithia to refresh urinary tract, reduce irritation, and keep kidneys clean. Recommends physician checkups twice yearly.
Mrs. Mattie Montgomery and others lease 30 acres out of Jose Leal survey for $1. Mrs. E. J. West and others lease 50 acres out of Jos A Prewitt survey for $1 to R. H. Groman and others. Blanche Young leases 862 12 acres northwest of Rockdale between San Gabriel and Brushy Creek for $10. J. W. Sides and others lease 100 acres out of Daniel Walker grant to H. T. Coulter and others for $100.
Agnes and Amelia Matocha convey 45 acres from James A Bradford grant to R W Kostrum for 10 dollars. W E Gaither sells blocks 4 and 5 of 46 from Wm Allen survey for 800 dollars. Several other leases and lot sales cited include Ben Arnold properties and parcels from the Nelson and Acosta surveys with prices ranging from 1 to 7150 dollars.
Miss Martha Lou Hooks and Bill Fontaine are attending Baylor University for summer school this season to pursue additional coursework and campus activities during the summer term.
Miss Louise Adams, a teacher in Edinburg schools, has arrived to spend the summer with her parents, Mr and Mrs P O Adams.
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