The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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June, 1927 The Health Bulletin 11
creased fly prevalence. In this way
garbage disposal has an indirect bearing
upon health.
Garbage should be kept in covered
containers. Often nearby farmers will
be glad to remove it for its feeding
value. Otherwise it should be burned.
For the larger camps it is practical to
provide an incinerator, by means of a
simple fire pot under open bars where
the garbage may be placed to dry out
over the fire and finally burn.
Advice and information on any phase
of camp sanitation will be gladly furnished
by the State Board of Health,
and commercial or public camps will
be inspected uix)n request, and it is
hoped that the camp management and
their patrons will make use of this
service freely.
HOW THEY DO IT IN MARYLAND
If you are going on an automobile
trip this coming summer, or are planning
to stay at one of the summer
camps along Maryland waterways or at
some attractive countryside, before you
unpack your belongings be sure that
the camp has been duly placarded by
the State Department of Health as
having met the sanitary requirements
of the State Board of Health.
In order that the inspection of such
places may be begun before the tourists
and vacationists take to the open road,
all operators of summer or tourist
camps throughout the State are requested
by Dr. John S. Fulton, Director
of the State Department of Health,
to file their applications for permits to
operate such camps, at once, with the
State Department of Health, 16 West
Saratoga Street, Baltimore.
Only those camps that satisfy the requirements
of the Board as to
the protection
of the water supply, disposal
of sewage, proper protection of food
supplies and general cleanliness will receive
the permit necessary to oijerate
such places. The absence of the official
placards will show that they have
not met the requirements.
Any premises which accommodate ten
or more persons and which are to be
used as a camp for tourists or for vacation
outings for a period of six days
or longer, or which are used as picnic
grounds, are subject to these regulations.
TO THIS YEAR'S GRADUATE
Maryland, Health Bulletin.
No, the following little squib is not a
sonnet. It is not a cubist portrait. It
could hardly be classified as free advice.
But if the suggestions of the physician
of twenty years ago could be
quietly observed by every graduate of
1927 it would conduce to the health and
happiness of a lot of people.
The writer of these lines had just
come through the ordeal of graduation
examination and had successfully negotiated
the State Board of Medical Examiners
whose word is final as to
whether or not a medical graduate is a
doctor for the practical purpose of
making a living. On the way home to
see his family and pool his debts, ready
to commence the search for a location,
from which vantage point fame and
fortune were to be achieved, he met up
with an acquaintance who was a successful
physician of approaching middle
age. Said the doctor to the new
graduate, "Where you going to locate"
'"That's worrying me now," was the reply.
"Do you know of a good place"
"No, there are no good places or bad
places, broadly speaking," went on the
older man. "You should decide where
you want to live, where you can be
happiest, where you think you can develop
best your ideals, and it does not
matter how many physicians are there
already, that is the place for you to
locate. Life will likely be hard on you
anyhow, it nearly always is to every
man who would live above the ordinary
no matter how much favorable influence
you think you can command. The only
thing to bear in mind is that you must
not let it harden you. Do not be
ashamed to let your patient or your
neighbor see that you are sympathetic.
He may need your sympathy much
more than he needs your pills. Above
all be as honest, as sincere, and as