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

The Health Bulletin June, 1951by the personnel of this Division duringthe calendar year, 1950. Only the highlightsof the year's program and accomplishmentsare enumerated here,since detailed monthly reports of theactivities have been submitted to theState Health Officer and members of theState Board of Health.AdministrationOur program of cooperation and assistanceto Federal, State, municipal andcounty officials, and agencies concernedwith mutual problems relating to sanitaryengineering or sanitation, has continuedduring the year. Special assistancewas given to the Budget Bureau,Department of Public Instruction, Departmentof Public Welfare, State Highwayand Public Works Commission,Hospitals Boai'd of Control, State Departmentof Conservation and Development,School of Public Health, Universityof North Carolina, N. C. State College,State Department of Agriculture,architects, consulting engineers, municipalofficials, and local health departments.The administration of the work withinthe Division was improved during theyear, and was expanded to provide betterservice to those requesting assistance.A unit designated as the Insect andRodent Control Section was created inthe Division, following the reorganizationof the State Board of Health, whenMalaria Control was transferred to thisoffice from the Division of Epidemiology.Personnel changes were the lowest wehave had in recent years, only two secretariesbeing replaced. Four new personswere added to our staff: one engineeron industrial waste studies, onejionior engineer as a district engineer,one district sanitarian, and one secretary.At the end of the year, the personnelemployed consisted of 12 engineers,13 sanitarians, 1 entomologist, 6 secretaries,in addition to the Director, makinga total of 33 employees. This doesnot include those persons paid directlyby the U. S. Public Health Service andassigned to Malaria and Typhus Controlactivities.SANITARY ENGINEERING SECTION— E. C. Hubbard, ChiefConsiderable time was devoted duringthe year to assisting the operators ofmunicipal water and sewage treatmentplants in connection with operationalproblems. Assistance was also given theoperators through schools conducted forthem at the University of North Carolinaand Duke University. A great numberof conferences were also held withprivate consulting engineers and architectsrelative to planning and designingwater and sewerage facilities. We assisteda number of towns with the locationof new well sites, this work beingcarried on in cooperation with the StateGeologist's office. Many improvementswere accomplished in connection withmunicipal water and sewage treatment,although they will not be listed here indetail. Projects completed, or under contract,amounted to an estimated cost ofover $13,000,000. The number of projectsinvolved was 76.The industrial waste studies, begunlate in 1949 by virtue of the passage ofPublic Law 845 and the allocation ofspecial funds to the State Board ofHealth, got under way and work wascarried on at Winston-Salem, Thomasville,Statesville, Marion, Mt. Airy, andElkin. In connection with this activity,laboratory facilities were provided inthe State Laboratory of Hygiene for theexamination of sewage and industrialwastes. The addition of this laboratoryhas greatly augmented the work beingdone in this field. A special researchproject was also carried on in cooperationwith Professor Granstrom and theSchool of Public Health at the Universityof North Carolina on a study ofrendering plant wastes. The office al.socooperated with the State Stream Sanitationand Conservation Committee, ofwhich the Director is Chairman, and thework of this Committee was correlatedas much as possible with the regularactivities of the Division. Considerabletime was devoted to conferences andconsultations with representatives ofout-of-state industries that were consideringsites for the location of their