Community civics and rural life . ppointed by thestate commissioner or board of health. In New York the dis-trict health officer, who is there called the sanitary supervisor,has the following duties: To keep informed regarding the work of each local health officer withinhis sanitary district. To aid the local health officers in making health surveys of the com-munity under their control. To aid each local health officer in the performance of his duties, par-ticularly on the appearance of contagious diseases. To hold conferences of local health officers. THE COMMUNITYS HEALTH 325 To study the c
Community civics and rural life . ppointed by thestate commissioner or board of health. In New York the dis-trict health officer, who is there called the sanitary supervisor,has the following duties: To keep informed regarding the work of each local health officer withinhis sanitary district. To aid the local health officers in making health surveys of the com-munity under their control. To aid each local health officer in the performance of his duties, par-ticularly on the appearance of contagious diseases. To hold conferences of local health officers. THE COMMUNITYS HEALTH 325 To study the causes of excessive death rates. To promote efficient registration of births and deaths. To inspect all labor camps and to enforce in them all public healthregulations. To inspect Indian reservations and to enforce all provisions of the sanitarycode in them. To secure the cooperation of medical organizations for the improvementof the public health. To promote the information of the public in matters pertaining to thepublic Courtesy Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Co. The Toothbrush Brigade, Fairfield, Ala. Another type of local health organization and of cooperationbetween local and state authorities for health protection andpromotion has been developed in North Carolina, Exam j fwhere 85 per cent of the population is rural. Herethe county has been taken as the unit of local or-ganization. Health conditions had been very bad in this state,hookworm disease, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseasesbeing prevalent. The state board of health, assisted by theRockefeller Sanitary Commission (see above, page 320, and NorthCarolina 326 COMMUNITY CIVICS references below), began an investigation and an educationalcampaign among the people, with the result that many of thecounties of the state now have an organization for healthcooperation unsurpassed, perhaps, in any other state. Eachcounty has a health department, which is controlled jointly bythe state board of health and a
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