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

June, 1951 The Health Bulletin 13program with the School Lunch Program,begun in 1949, has been continuedthroughout the year.(d) As in previous years consultantswere made available for special summerschool work relating to health. Nutritionistsserved as consultants for educationworkshops. One served as instructorin the Health Education Workshop atThe North Carolina College.One met with the Institute on Prematuresheld for nurses at North CarolinaCollege. Another served as consultantfor the Institute on Maternity, also,The activities of the Nutrition Sectionare increasing each year. Since nutritionis now considered to be of greaterand greater importance in promotinggood health at all ages it is essentialthat more emphasis be placed on bringingabout an understanding of the valueof good nutrition practices for people ofall ages. For many years nutrition hasbeen accepted as being of great importanceto the young; it is now realizedthat it is of even greater value to theaged and to the diseased.The practice of good nutritionthroughout life will help prevent someof the health problems now existing. Tobring about these practices is the majorproblem of the Section. An adequatestaff will enable the Section to aid inestablishing better food practices, andthereby assure better health benefits tothe people in all sections of North Caro-for Nurses at North Carolina College.One nutritionist served as consultant tothe supervisors workshop at The Woman'sCollege. A nutritionist also metwith the Resource-Use Education Workshopat The North Carolina College.lina.Another cooperated with the School-Cancer SectionHealth Coordinating Service at The In February, 1950, the State Board ofUniversity of North Carolina.Health was reorganized and the DivisionOne nutritionist served as consultant of Cancer Control was merged within the lunchroom workshop in the BiltmoreSchool for one week. She, also, sonal Health Services. Dr. G. M. Cooperother groups imder the Division of Per-served one week in the school lunchroomworkshop in Cullowhee.sion, and Dr. Mildred Schram continuedwas appointed Director of the new Divi-One nutritionist attended the CommunityNutrition Institute held at Syra-Section untU her resignation on Augustto serve as Field Director of the Cancercuse University for two weeks. This instituteis held each year to provide On March 7 the Gastric Cancer De-22, 1950.postgraduate training for consultants tection MobUe which is equipped withfrom all over the United States.a Schmidt-Helm camera and accompanyingx-ray equipment began opera-One consulting dietitian and one nutritionistvisited the Crippled Children's tion in Durham. The Schmidt-HelmSummer Camp in Washington, North camera in this Unit is one of five In theCarolina, to supervise the food service United States and is the first to ever bewhich had been planned by the NutritionSection.the cancer program is an experiment inplaced in a mobile unit. This phase ofOne consultant was on the program in screening apparently well people forthe school lunch workshop at North stomach cancer. Seven 70 mm. films ofCarolina College in Durham.the stomach and esophagus are made ofPour graduate students in Nutrition each examinee and can be done in approximatelyseven minutes. Mr. Walterwere assigned to North Carolina for fieldtraining; two were students from the Lee Horton, Jr., who had received specialtraining at Johns Hopkins Univer-Philippines assigned by the PublicHealth Service; two were from the Universityof Tennessee.od originated was employed as Seniorsity where the photofluorographic meth-Technician toConclusiontake and develop thefilms. Dr. W. W. Vaughan and Dr. RobertJ. Reeves, Radiologists in Durham,study the films; and any person whosefilm shows any suspicious condition isreferred to a practicing radiologist for