Washington County Public Health Report January Summary
Washington County Health Service reports January activity with eight communicable disease cases including chicken pox mumps and scarlet fever and eleven releases. Nurses performed 43 home calls 116 school visits 17 professional visits 7 health talks 1177 pupil inspections 625 individual exams and water sampling. Laboratory conducted 107 exams and sanitation handled three well tests two nuisance abatements. Welfare work notes 26 aid investigations 38 families aided with food fuel rent and medical care.
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Board of Supervisors
Washington County
Washington
Iowa
Public Health Service
Washington County Hospital
Iowa City
W. Stewart
Health Service
McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Tablets Promise Quick Health Boost
An advertisement touts McCoy's Cod Liver Oil Compound Tablets as a fast, safe substitute for cod liver oil to build strength in thin underweight children. It claims rapid gains and suitability after sickness or suspected rickets, featuring a 60 tablet bottle for 60 cents and praise from a boy who gained 12 pounds in seven months.
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J. E. Lemmon
McCoy
January 1925 Washington County communicable disease report
The January 1925 county wide tally shows eight new quarantined or placarded cases of communicable disease and eleven releases. The director and nurses conducted seventy six home visits and fourteen school visits for disease investigation. Diseases quarantined include chicken pox mumps and scarlet fever with six scarlet fever cases. Releases include cerebro spinal meningitis one chicken pox one diphtheria four scarlet fever four and typhoid fever one.
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Washington County
Public Health Service Report Totals For Home Calls and Inspections
Dr. C. W. Stewart reports counts across service activities including 23 home calls, 63 school visits, 6 professional calls, 65 health tasks, and 6 treatments. Classroom inspections total 565 with 11 pupils excluded for impetigo scaries chicken pox mumps exposure. water samples 1. individual inspections 151. corrections found in eyes nose throat teeth totaling 4 4 4 19.
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C. W. Stewart
Public Health Service
January 1925 Health Department report details
Edna Lewis notes defects by body system across pupils including eyes ears nose throat teeth and glands with counts. The January 1925 report lists school visits home calls professional calls inspections classroom checks building premises and vaccinations with notes on weights and nutrition plus a laboratory record and labor outcomes. Mae Campbell County Nurse Health Director reports.
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Edna Lewis
Welfare Work in Washington County January 1925 Report
Welfare work notes twenty six investigations in January with thirty eight families aided by food fuel rent medical and hospital care. Also a public sale notice by writ of execution listing 380 acres of land in Washington County to be sold February 25 1925 under Midland Mortgage Company scrutiny.
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Public Health Service
Washington County
District Court
Iowa
Matilda Pierce
Lulie M. Sitwell
Court House
Washington
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S. E
N.W
N. FE
Township
Lillie M. Stowell
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Midland Mortgage Company, Plaint
Individual mind power increases across history noted
William Lyon Phelps writes in Scribner's Magazine that human intellect has grown little since ancient dawn, while suggesting mind remains largely independent of place and time.
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William Lyon U
Scribnér’s Magazine
Oldest Test Station at Rothamsted Harpenden
The Rothamsted agricultural experiment station at Harpenden England claims the oldest in English speaking countries with experiments begun in the mid nineteenth century and ongoing tests.
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Rothamsted Station
Harpenden
England
Plants Lose Fragrance In England Shedding Old Garden Musk
The article notes that fragrance in plants is not heredity linked and breeders lack laws governing its presence. It cites that plants can lose scent and uses England’s old garden musk as an example, once valued for fragrance but now often lacking it.
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England
Oldest Walls: Jericho Precedes Great Wall
The text notes the Great Wall of China is the longest in the world yet not the oldest. It states Jericho’s walls were built 1,500 years before Christ, making them over three thousand years old.
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China
Jericho
Bere a baffling figure who never quite finishes
A terse description of a bere person who appears to be perpetually unfinished, leaving observers unsettled by the impression of incomplete progress or unresolved presence.
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