DOUGLAS COULPY MMALTH UNIT
Monthly report of Director
Mey 8, 1945

ek I traveled 1065 miles in April,

2, Immuniza tions continued at top speed during the whole month and
are now pretty well completed. The really rural schools including the
preschool children are certainly more than 50% and probably nearer 60%
immunized. The mothers, the county over are almost unanimous in their
desire for complete protection for their children but refuse it for
' themselves. The schools at Baldwin and, Eudora and the preschools,
especially at Eudora are well covered, In district # 60 the work will
be completed before the school year ends. One day last week I did over
- 200 smallpox vaccinations and the work still goes on,

3. The assistant technician,Blaine Griffitts, has been in rather un-
certain (undependable) health during all of her service with us and re-
cently reached a decision that she should spend al) her energies in ae
another direction. Her physician and I agreed in advising her to |
lessen her work so she was allowed to resign. her letter will be read

to you. alr. Beck is now carrying on in the laboratory, but as his other
work opens up a little more, we shall really need some one in our
laboratory. “e are looking for him (her) now,

4. The day when boys ‘and girls took over the city government was well
observed by the Unit. Each of us had an understudy and all of them |
seemed interested. It may be that our high School is full of bright

and patriotic young people or that. the teachers immediately responsible
for the selection, gave the youngsters a careful Nand picking,--possibly
both. Certainly, the young people that came to us sold themselves, —
their school and their faculty, not only to the City Government but to
ail the forward looking public that they contacted, ..

The plan and practice in the Unit was to take the student officials.
fully into our confidence and show them all we could. I went with a
nurse and three young people to visit and inspect an Interesting country
- school and with the sanitarian and the same girls to look over one
of the newest dairies, | |

' At the noon luncheon, my personal understudy, Miss Elam, made a
most acceptable speech=-best or next to best, I think, of all that were
made. In introducing her I said, "With very few exceptions, in every
city 1n The United States, the people are worth more than all other
assets put together. Computing them at $10,000.00 each, a value set.
vy the courts and generally recognized by every one that knows anything
about it, the people of Douglas County are worth almost exactly a |
quarter billion dollars,--six hundred sixteen and two thirds percent
(616.66%) of the value of ali real and personal property turned in for.
ad valorem taxation. : oe