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

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September, 1927 The Health Bulletin 2'6
patched to the flood area. In addition,
the health officer of Pamlico
County, Dr. D. A. Dees, and the health
officer of Rowan County, Dr. C. W.
Armstrong, together with Mr. Quint
E. Smith, sanitary engineer of Concord,
and Mr. W. C. Stallings, sanitary
inspector of Guilford County,
volunteered their services and reported
for duty in the flood area
along with the personnel of the State
Board of Health aforementioned. It
ought to be of interest to the friends
of the State Board of Health, and
especially to the friends and relatives
of these officials, to know something
about how their services were appraised
by the authorities in the flood
district. Therefore we take pleasure
in quoting below some letters received
from health officers in Mississippi,
Arkansas, and Louisiana.
Dr. W. A. D. James, the county
health officer at Belzoni, Mississippi,
wrote to the North Carolina State
Health Officer, under date of June 17,
the following letter concerning the
work of Messrs. Floyd and Stallings
''I want to express our gratitude to
you for the valuable service that your
department has rendered us during
our flood emergency.
"It has been our good fortune to
have detailed to us two of your sanitary
inspectors, Mr. John E. Floyd, of
Raleigh, and Mr. W. C. Stallings, of
Greensboro. I know that I have never
known two better men. They certainly
gave us some worth-while service.
They are industrious, interested
in their work, and know sanitation,
how to deliver it and get results.
"Again thanking you for this valuable
service that you have made possible
for us, I am,
"Yours very truly,
"W. A. D. James, M.D."
On June 21 the Exchange Club of
Cleveland, Mississippi, passed the following
resolutions with reference to
the work of Mr. B. F. Rowland:
"Whebeas, the State Board of
Health of North Carolina has been so
kind and generous to lend to Bolivar
County the services of Mr. B. F. Rowland,
Sanitary Inspector, during the
recent overflow and calamity affecting
our community; and,
"Whereas, Mr. Rowland is a highclass
gentleman in every respect, and
made many friends for the Health
Department of our State, as well as
our sister State, North Carolina
"Be it Resolved, that the Cleveland
Exchange Club of Cleveland, Miss.,
extend to the State Board of Health
in behalf of the people of Bolivar
County their sincere and grateful
thanks for the splendid services rendered
by the said B. F. Rowland,
Sanitary Inspector, and to assure them
we shall always remember most gratefully
and kindly the spirit that actuated
the said State Board of Health
in coming to us in our time of need:
"Be it further Resolved, that a
copy of this resolution be spread upon
the minutes of the Exchange Club and
a copy sent to the State Board of
Health at Raleigh, N. C, and a copy
furnished to the press of the county.
"Done this the 21st day of June,
1927.
"R. E. Jackson, President.
"Geo. H. Webb, Secretary:'
On June 21 the following letter was
received from Dr. Hardie R. Hays,
A. A. Surgeon, U. S. P. H. S., at Indianola,
Mississippi, in commendation
of the work of Mr. M. M. Melvin
"In behalf of the people in the inundated
section of Sunflower County,
Mississippi, I wish to express appreciation
of the splendid services of Mr.
M. M. Melvin, who was sent to this
department by your State Board of
Health.
"Mr. Melvin represented your State
in a most complimentary way, demonstrating
to all the high degree of
efficiency which characterizes your
splendid Board of Health.
"The people of this county are at
one in their conviction that never has
a more rapid, worth-while piece of
work been put over than was done
under the direction of Mr. Melvin.
"We thank you for your liberality
in sending him, and want you to know
that the people of Mississippi truly
appreciate your State sending their
very best to us.
"With very best wishes, I beg to
remain,
"Sincerely yours,
"Hardie R. Hays, M.D."