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24 The Health Bulletin September, 1927
riidcr (lato of June 1 I >v. Felix J.
Underwood, State Health Otticer of
Mississippi, wrote to Dr. Laiigliiughouse
iis follows
•Words fail me in expressing to
j-on our appreciation of the splendid
assistance rendered thronyh your well
ti-ained sanitary inspectors. I doubt
if there is a State in the Union that
has sanitary men who equal yours.
•'Very truly yours,
"Fexix J. Underwood, M.D."
Under date of June 4 Dr. C. W. Garrison,
State Health Officer of Arkansas,
wrote the following letter with
reference to Drs. Taylor and Carley,
and Sanitary Engineer Weir
"Arkansas is indeed fortunate in
your selection of men to serve lis.
Doctors H. A. Taylor and Paul S. Carley
and Sanitary Engineer W. H. Weir
have been with us for some time.
Each of them has rendered a service
that has been invaluable, and I hardly
know what might have come as a result
of the flood in several communities
had they not been there to organize
the work and combat the diseases
that usually follow- in the w^ake of disaster.
"Dr. Dees and Mr. Quint Smith,
while not directly from your department,
have come I know largely
through your solicitation. My contact
with these men assures me that
the communities to which they are assigned
will be assured of protection.
"I congratulate you on having such
a wonderful staff of workers, and I
feel particularly favored in being the
recipient of their services."
Dr. C. AV. Armstrong was assigned
to duty in northeastern Louisiana, directing
a force of twenty-five workers,
including nurses, engineers, and sanitary
inspectors. Dr. Armstrong's work
covered a total of forty-six towns and
eleven parishes. In his report to the
Louisiana State Board of Health at
the conclusion of the work. Dr. Armstrong
says
"There has at all times been perfect
harmony and the most cordial cooperation
between all members of the
nnit. The men have worked untiringly
with never a thought of complaint.
The permanent employees of
the Louisiana State Board of Health
who were absorbed into the unit have
given us the finest possible cooperation,
and have shown us every cour
tesy. We cannot speak too highly of
your own Louisiana men who havr
been with us in this section. Any
State should feel itself fortunate in
having the services of these men."
In conclusion the class of service
rendered by these men is indicated in
the fact that after the subsidence of
the acute dangers, while the flood was
at its crest, the International Health
Board deemed it necessary to assist
financially and otherwise in the rehabilitation
work of the public health
departments in the area involved. The
aforementioned board agrees with Secretary
Herbert Hoover, who himself
spent some time in the flood district,
that intensive sanitary work will be
necessary over a period of at least
eighteen months before the rehabilitated
population can be restored to
safe and normal community life. To
assist in making such work effective
on a systematic scale the International
Health Board took the lead in establishing
a school of sanitary inspectors
to take intensive training for a short
while before being dispatched to individual
districts throughout the entire
flood area. As chief instructor of this
school of sanitary inspectors the International
Health Board requested
the services of Mr. John A. McLeo