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Saturday, July 4, 2015

Dr. P.W. Covington to Help Eliminate Hookworm in Columbus County, 1914

From The Review, High Point, N.C., July 30, 1914

Community health work in the state took another step forward recently when the state board of health announced that one more county had been added to the list of those which desired the community method of hookworm eradication. This county is Columbus and the particular section of the county where this work will be done is at Hallsboro.

Along with this announcement by the board comes the one that Dr. P. W. Covington of Wadesboro, who has been connected with the state health work as an officer for the past four years will be assigned ot the work of hookworm eradication as a member of the hookworm commission and will begin his duties in Hallsboro at once. Dr. Covington will leave Raleigh at once for the seat of his new work. In making the choice of Dr. Covington the state board of health commends him for his past services which have been most efficient. He has served in several departments of the state health work and in each of them he has done excellent service.

North Carolina is the pioneer state in the community health work. The results of its efforts along this line are being eagerly watched by other state health departments. The literature of the North Carolina state board of health is being scattered over the country and a great deal of it is sent on request from other states for information in regard to the work which is being done in this state. When the hookworm was found to be so prevalent in the South the various health departments of the South immediately undertook the discovery of the most practical method of eradication. The North Carolina board finally determined that the hookworm dispensaries established at various points for a short time on general campaign were not bringing the results which had been hoped for. The intensive method of hookworm eradication was then undertaken.

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