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Halifax County Health Department’s Historic Progress Noted
A history of Halifax County Health Department chronicles its growth from a part time quarantine office in Weldon in 1919 to a modern multiroom operation in a new Halifax building. The piece highlights key figures Dr. I B Green Dr. Paul Carter Dr. J W Larkin Dr. Z P Mitchell and Dr. Robert F Young plus nurses clerks and sanitarian staff and milestones in immunizations venereal disease control and maternity programs.
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Halifax
Halifax County
I. EB. Green
Weldon
Paul Carter
Ransome Drug Store
the Red Cross
Health Department
Miss Hancock
Miss Saucer
State Board of Health
J. W. Larkin
Carter
Holmes
McNeill Holmes
Sheppard-Towne
Mac
Katie Persons
F. H. Clark
Davis Dickens
Clark
Dicken
North Carolina
Cient
Larkin
Z. P. Mitchell
County Board of Health
Mitchell
J. R. Jimerson
McNeill
Carter's Chapel
Crowell’s
Cross Roads
D. H. Moody
Tillery
Hobgood
Enfield
Scotland Neck
Littleton
Roanoke Rapids
R. S. McGeachy
E. A. Hastings
F. S. Moore
State Health Department
Louise East of
Ralph J. Sykes
McGeachy
Sykes
Isabelle Cummings
County Health Department
Division of
Venereal Disease Control