Show Health Department Is County's Great Need Are you rou living Jiving in a county without pi u organized health department asks Jr Dr R. R. R G. G Beachley in Hygeia the magazine published by the American Medical association If It y you u do you JOU are not receiving proper health protection from your local o oc L l. government State departments I tf Cf health cannot carry carryon on oa Intensive With eaIth work In every ery county In a state Therefore the only way to maintain proper health standards Is to have an efficient health department In every county No o investment In can yield greater dividends than mone money for public eaith Doctor Beachley continues A time thole-time health department ent will vill re- re dace uce the amount of sickness from such diseases as typhoid fever ferer diphtheria Jj p h th and scarlet fever by almost 5 per cent cent during the first five years r if f Its existence he declares The health department con- con isis of ot a physician who Is a n graduate of tf si n medical college with special train- train Is pg g In public health work one or two graduate nurses who have studied pub puh- ic te health one or Oi two sanitary in in- and a clerk r. r If It j ible a laboratory should be pro- pro ded |