Miss Geneva Sykes, the efficient State nurse, has now three more weeks in the county to complete the examination of the school children. Up to date she has found approximately 60 per cent of the children with defective teeth; 10 per cent with defective eyesight; 10 percent with defective hearing; 20 per cent are underweight; 40 percent with diseased tonsils and adenoids.
The North Carolina State Board of Health would not advise anything to be done to any of its citizens that would in any way be detrimental to its citizenship; therefore, the parents or guardians of these children that are suffering as a result of their diseased tonsils need have no fear of any harm coming to them. If you recall, we held a clinic here three years ago, and you recall the amount of good it did in preventing diseases resulting from infected tonsils and adenoids.
We have secured the use of the third floor of the Peoples Bank Building for the hospital, and the dates will be May 26, 27, 28, and 29, 1926. The State Board of Health will furnish good nurses and good surgeons to do this work. Consult your family physician and abide by what he says. If he does not think the removal of diseased tonsil and adenoids is not a good thing in preventing disease, do not have it done.
--WM. E. WARREN, Executive Officer
From the first page of the Enterprise, Williamston, N.C., Tuesday, April 20, 1926
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