The journal., December 12, 1957, Image 16

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Importance Of X-Rays For Locai Food
Handlers Sfresetf By Health Board
Frank Egbert, Zanesville, who is serving on a part time basis as
sanitarian for Noble county, presided at regular meeting of the Noble
County Health board held Monday evening at their offices in the
courthouse.
Health problems, as it pertains to the county as a whole, were
discussed and every effort is being made to perfect a health program
for this ccunty.
The importance of a pure
water supply and that of x-ray
films to detect tuberculosis were
discussed at some length by Mr.
Egbert. His findings on the im
portance of the TB x-rays clinics
as it pertains to food handlers
are as follows:
"Tuberculosis is a communic
able disease caused by a micros
copically small bacteria. It is
passed from person to person by
direct contact and indirectly on
food or other objects con
taminated by those infected. In
addition, tuberculosis which has
been unrecognized for too long
becomes a disease requiring a
long period of treatment.
•'Truly, neither employee nor
patron would wish to be pres
ented with the necessity em
battling with tuberculosis. Yet
"this type of exposure does occur
and right in our own county.
During the three years of the
.Food Service Operation Law,
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county have been hospitalized
which was first discovered by
the required chest x-ray.
"Many individuals and agen
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this section of the law the food
handler, himself, by his willing
compliance with the regulation,
doctors, hospital, county health
department and the Noble county
tuberculosis association. If you
are contemplating employment
in a food service operation, ask
any of those just listed about
obtaining your chest x-ray.
"If you eat out, look for the
restaurant license—it is your as
surance that all employees have
a yearly chest x-ray and do not
have tuberculosis.
"A food service operation in
cludes many factors of safety.
Some of these are concerned
with hidden items which are
seldom thoughtfully but which
may be ^f great importance, one
of these is the health of the food
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"The food service operation
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9afety including tuberculosis.
Item 2, if regulation 305 of the
law states 'when the board of
health determines that x-ray
facilities are reasonably avail
able, it shall require periodic
chest x-rays of all employees.'
"In Noble county permanent
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health requires an annual chest
x-ray for each person engaged in
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"The board of health feels
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only by the evidence of the
x-ray. Many people who have
early tuberculosis look well and
feel well so that neither they nor
those whom they serve can trust
the evidence of their own obser
vations."
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I
TFfl JOURNAt CJALDWW* OHTO
Water Supply From Health Standpoint
Discussed
Water is one of the biggest
problems at the present time and
from a health standpoint, Sani
tarian Egbert says:
"Of all the wonders of nature,
water is by far the most wonder
ful. Water literally is "the main
spring" of all life. Every living
thing, with rare exceptions, is
dependent upon a constant and
never failing supply of water,
or it quickly passes out of exis
tence.
"Good water of satisfactory
characteristics is so common
place now that thought is sel
dom given to it. An abundant
supply of it is usually obtain
able at a mere turn of a faucet
or value. It is only when a good
water is not immediately avail
able is restricted, or some dis
agreeable characteristics of an
existing supply, such as bad
taste, odor, dirt, hardness, etc.,
ecome apparent that the value
realized.
"Any problems with water
usually focus public attention
upon this commodity and fre
luently, upon its history, coup
ed with many facts and fal
acies. For instance, we read?
the miraculous appearance of
water with the touch of a rock
by Moses, the worship of springs
nd water wells as a religious
ite, the dedication of shrines
nd temples to them by the
indents because of their life
ustaining properties. There were
jeliefs that certain waters were
nhabited by good and bad
pirits.
"With the passage of time, it
was only natural that attention
was turned to water for the bet
srment of a community, how
ver, not without the usual
bstacles thrown in the way of
rogress, frequently by well
ntentioned, but misinformed or
political minded persons the
ighteous weakling usually caus
more trouble than the poli
ician. For instance, when ster
lization of water was first pro
posed as a typhoid fever control
ystem, there were those who
nferred the process would cause
ancer. Some insisted it means
iestruction of body tissues and
thers believed the fever was
aused by seWer gas instead of
rganisms in the water.
"Developments every where
have now proved that steriliza
ion of the water by chlorine was
he answer to the problem.
"In other ways, there were
hindrances to development. The
owly bath tub had its problems.
There were those who claimed
aking a bath would result in
heumatism, inflammation of
he lungs and many other
odily ailments. Even the poli
icians saw bathing as "an end
0 our democratic way of life."
n Philadelphia, an attempt was
nade to ban ba'hing during the
vinter months. Some commun
es endeavored to discourage
jathing by passing a prohibi
tive water tax, in fact, the state
if Virginia imposed a $30.00
mnual tax for that purpose.
"These and many other imagi
nary difficulties and nations con
cerning water vanishes with
final acceptance of the improve
ments.
"But, do not let the improve
ments brought about by new
notions and fallacies be mislead
ing for just because the water
from a questionable source is
:lear and sparkling is no assur
ince it is safe to drink, since
uch water could contain harm
ful bacteria. On the other hand,
1 water with a brownish dis
coloration is not necessarily
langerous, because this water
might be free of harmful bac
eria and contain only some
harmless iron.
"However, dangerous bacteria
in water, which cause certain
acute diseases, are not visible to
the eye. A spring can easily
come from a source, which, in
its path of flow, picks up a pol
luted water.
"If the water flows through
underground sand bed strata
By Sanitarian Frank Egbert
"When the well's dry, they know the worth of water," accord
ing to Frank Egbert, sanitarian, who pointed out to the Noble
county health board Monday evening at their regular meeting of
the vast importance that water plays in the growth of a community
such as Caldwell.
Sanitarian Egbert is attempting to set up a health program for
Noble county and in so doing,"
it is necessary to educate the
general public on the 'many
health problems which confront
them.
some purification can take place,
however, the safety is always
quesf ionable. If the water passes
through rocky formation, any
purification action would be
meager. It would be dangerous
practice to drink any such water
without some knowledge of its
source or history.
"Water from a well is safe to
drink because of its use over
many years. Sueh thinking is
dangerous, in the sense that con
ditions surrounding a well or
spring might change. To illus
trate, an unnoticed earth tremor
could easily open crevices to
permit a polluted water to enter
such a supply source and there
by contaminate the water.
"The best safety mdLs-ure with
a private well or spring is to
have the water tested period
ally. Your health department
sanitarian will be glad to do
this for you and advise what
corrective measures may be
needed.
"Water may, however, contain
many bacteria and still not be
dangerous or unsafe, because not
all bacteria in water are harm
ful. A bacterialogist is most in
terested in the kind rather than
the quantity present. If one
is
in doubt as to the purity of
a
water, the best procedure is to
boil it vigorously for twenty or
thirty minutes, then stir
it
as it cools to remove the flat
taste.
"Water, closely approximates
the central idea of the universe—
everything else hinges upon it.
It is an every moment factor
in
the life of every living thine
While the poet sings of love on
moon-lit waters, the farmer
prays for rain for his thir?'y
crops and his livestock tiro
engineer studies and schemes to
arrest its destructive influence*
on the structures of civilization
and the beasts of the forest
strealthily tread to the water
hole for the most precious of ail
fluids.
"So this wonderful,
all
power
full compound is a paradoxic a)
compound, because while it pro
vides us with everything we
have to eat or drink or wear,
it carries equal powers of
truction and man is compelle
to find ways and means to slow
up or delay the damage it doe.
See The Journal for
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