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Show DAVIS HEALTH ! REPORTJSSUED FARMINflTON Operation of Davis county's public health department de-partment In 1939 cost $16,074.16, the annual report. Issued Thursday by Dr. D. Keith Barnes, deputy state health director, revealed. The sum, accumulating from 11 different sources. Included $710 of state and federal government (rants and an appropriation of S526B.47 by Davis county. Other sources from which funds were obtained and purposes for which they were used were: L. D. S. wards, M. (lasses and tonsil operations; Davis county, S1M.30, glasses, tonsils, X-rays, rat control; town boards, $80 61, rat control; crippled children fund, $3031.06, hospitalization, treatment, physicians and appliances; maternal mater-nal and child health, $155.72. conference con-ference supplies and blologicals: U D. S. ward Relief societies, $90. conference supplies, tonsils and maternity help: Kaysvllle Rotary club, $50, glasses, and Davis county coun-ty Red Cross and president's birthday birth-day ball fund, $33, loan cupboard supplies and glasses. Total, $3664.69. Major activities of the medical and nursing divisions were: Admissions to service, 1285; nurse's home visits, 2567; child health conferences held, 110; attendance at-tendance at child health conferences, confer-ences, 1583; Immunisation against diphtheria, 460; against smallpox, 475; birth registration certificates delivered, 230; school examinations, examina-tions, 798; admission to antepartum nursing service, 51; Individuals reentered and crippled children's service, 46; crippled children re- I ceivlng treatment, 29; monthly j publications distributed, 2400; leo I tures at public meetings, 91, and attendance at public meetings, 4299. In the sanitary division, the following, fol-lowing, surveys and Inspections were made: Public sewage disposal systems, 7; public water supplies and swimming pools, 104; private sewage disposal systems, 893; private pri-vate premises, 1369; eating and drinking establishments, 200, and milk plants and dairy farms, 117. Water samples and other specimens speci-mens taken numbered 1954. Listed for the 1940 program are: Continuation of last year's program; pro-gram; supervision of prenatal cases; encouragement of parents to maintain adequate supervision over child health; promotion of adult hygiene; better lighting; im-tablishments, im-tablishments, and promotion of provement In sanitation conditions In public eating and drinking es-health es-health education among district health officers. |