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Thursday. May 4, 1950 THE OAKVILLE-TRAFALGAR JOURNAL Page 3 Active Health Unit Halton's or ; i : # BUSY PROGRAM OF HALTON'S county's health unit Is J. M. Mather, M.O.H children who we; ven medical checkups during supervis director who is seen above examing one of the 1,348 primary school 1949 1 t's dental clinic, whose OMe Child Health ¢ YOUIES were examined thr 1 the ur this picture youthful of the well equiped trailer, Dr. B,J t In cha exam & total at mo At one of atiracted 115 1 2,401, Dr. alongside, tendance of (TOP) cf alton reflect the eltizen very while wo charming lassies in the two charming of health = RESEARCH TO AID ARTHRITIS VICTIMS! Town and Township | Almost ¢ relatiy ; Stork Statistics Halton residents recorded 512 | births with the health unit dur | Ing 1948. Oukville's new citi 1 | zens numbered 158, while 134 bables ween born to Trafalger | parents. The stork made 231 visitations to the Oulcvifle Tem. orsey Hospital. the prominent laymen serving in 3 stric tty. James A. Gairdner is president | Reports Second Successful Year DR. F. N. SPARLING Oversees Primary Schools DR. ROBERT APPLEFORD Formerly Handled H. 8 Medical Program Here Guards Student Molars County's Dental Clinic Among Province's First During 1040, a total of 780, In addition to its extensive Halton reidents wore vaccinated | work in the schools, homes and agalnat smallpox tome 2,008 | stores of Malton, the unit acts in oro protected against diphtheria [an advisory ity to local while 1,048 completed Immuniza« | councils and ning boards lon courses for whooping cough, | "We have found them, in all in tetanus and typhoid. In the five |atances, to be most receptive to owns, 115 child health centres [our advice and most helpful in Allended by 2.401 babies | solving mutual problems," De mall fry, Public health nur | Mather declared do BHO home visita to] Wigured on a county popula 6 families, while sanitary | tion of 84,400, the 140 budget And visits. And thousands of | basis, as this ia the manner in | Primary and high school students | which the province makes Its | Underwant medical and dental | grants. Ontaric and Halton each | 'napection right In thelr schools, | contributed half the amount re DISEASE DATA | Fount i270 iv a sant lor the heading "48 Facts" pre-| rate for health services amount GANS. ond: cant, foport of the Halton County | enue from grants plus a 1048 op ing 1049, chickenpox accounted [ M1OAIh Unit briefly summa erating $49.407.30, pro for 312, some 168 of thes camen| No oXtonsi Whe unit apital of $7 occuring In January and Feh-| "4% built up ttle more the an 'e ruary, Mumps ran a distant sec Rw il Bxpandity i ond with 60 cases, while other W=for 40 more p nr larlas totalling 337,073 communicable disonses reported lutall he Wal professional ser a arlaty of the many protective 0; transportation ex Ai Als By Or. James M. Mather, unit dir and office equipment whooping cough, 7; paratyphoid, | ® and MOM, and his staff plus of revanus over 2; undulant fever, 1; bacillary | 33 sy assistants expenditure amounted to 38,477 tysentrey, 1 | Tn looking back over il ond full in charge of a unit Dr. Mather esti ef Ay that has become a leader in the ter part of 344,000 Two deaths resulted AMONG | rural area public health field ired to carry out the the 18 pollo cages, while paraly=| una" which has been smang the | unit am. He ls anxious to in present ig ten other | go tontal treat-| add two more nu 6 his staff victims nent for children, genial | having worked a u turing part of | total of if tubers | tha ss and to Lh ware on piling pet {of 1040, as af serve more than ew ca c he maintained. At ar i teuths | lation nurses wark srad anatoris a i x ha direction of super tw ase Been M. Jeannette Gilles i thas sanitation and food con Hivision inspectors J. A and BM sd 396 Fowall 'smphell col water samples from private and municipal supplies ms In cases auring whtieds Nseavered, wal dar sken to have bean abls to pro well pes s pro in dairy i " ay ited, snd pot a ; faulty pesteurize dental ght. Eating estab Math iplisd for the most | par po ial regule- fi the inspestors found, only two having be closed during the year Forwar the public health education « tors | the sgends for the f v t on mass scale [from as far ss India, Chins snd |the burden of work snd the ffective ! Jugostavia | Contintied on Page 10)