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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1948
Page
6
The June report shows summer hours 9 am to 4 30 pm through August with staff on vacations. Tuberculosis cases rose to 32 for the year and 71 people were X-rayed in June. Caroline county patients in sanatoriums totaled 13 with seven admitted since January and four deaths from tuberculosis.
A July 15 1948 letter from a Denton Maryland reader laments long inaction on town sewage and drainage. The writer argues that delays by Town Commissioners and Baltimore officials threaten children with disease and urges immediate extension of sewers to outlying areas to prevent infantile paralysis and public health crises.
Preston and Riverhead residents hosted visitors over the weekend with lineups including Mr. and Mrs. Seth Hubbard and Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Micknie from Bridgehampton. Federalsburg’s Miss Sandy Johnson visited her grandmother Mrs. Lucy Alexander, and Fletcher Sisk Jr. with Smith Harris returned from a Roanoke fraternity party. Ruth Garey and Edward Garey visited S. E. Douglas family. Rachel Baylor returned from Accomac. H. B. Seward and wife spent Sunday with son-in-law and daughter Ormond Hubbard.
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