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Newspaper
Dahlonega Nugget
Location
Dahlonega, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1921
Page
4
The article argues the Vital Statistics Law guides health efforts by showing where to act. It highlights Tuberculosis as Georgia’s top health threat, 2.4 times more dangerous than infantile diarrhoea and nine times Typhoid, with malaria deaths at 9.9. It calls for more than a hundred beds at Alto Sanatorium and a $500,000 need for broader prevention and education programs.
The piece argues for a state home for unfortunate women and girls to treat venereal disease until cured and to operate rehabilitation. It advocates moving them from society until reform and financial self sufficiency, with feeble minded to be housed separately and infected individuals to ensure mothers are treated after marriage for healthy births.
The article urges training young women as practical nurses to serve rural communities for modest pay. It notes trained nurses are scarce and unaffordable, proposes a three month training, and stresses essential skills like pulse, temperature, respiration, asepsis, injections, and emergency responsiveness. It argues each community should have several such nurses despite hospital opposition.
The Quitman Free Press editorial extols life as humanity’s richest asset and condemns indifference to disease. It praises the State Board of Health as central to conserving people, urges investigation by those who have never studied the issue, promising a revelation.
Officials emphasize sanitation, proper food handling, and preventing communicable diseases as core public health responsibilities for communities.
The School for the Feebleminded near Augusta awaits funding after a 100000 dollar appropriation and a 75000 dollar grant to the Tuttle Newton Orphan Home were allocated. Delays in equipment, board costs, and attorney fees left insufficient funds. Dr. Abercrombie cannot proceed without new legislative money. Applicants remain eager to gain admission.
The article urges the new legislature to provide a maintenance fund for a much needed institution. It warns that the school cannot operate without such funds and notes that about 3 percent of the school population are feebleminded, stressing the urgency for public support.
Fourteen Georgia towns establish clinics for child health, focusing on dental and throat nose care. Expert physician follow up is emphasized and the Division of Child Hygiene will provide plans and cost estimates for running the clinics.
In a tense exchange, one speaker retorts that the other is imprudent. The other fires back praising the remark as the only sensible line in the discussion, asserting that if they were in the other’s position they would not be a fool. The dialogue highlights a sharp clash of perspectives.
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A London Mail survey traces bowling 600 years of popularity in England noting Bowls as the national game with greens and alleys in towns and a Whitehall alley under Henry VIII. It also recalls early forms of football cricket and tennis and highlights ancient hopscotch and singing games in comparison.
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A river barge loaded with 12,000 feet of lumber was stolen one night recently from a wharf on the Alabama river. The unusual theft disrupted local timber supplies and prompted a police investigation.
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