Dr. Kenneth  Aycock was named to replace Dr. Peeples who retired in January 1967. The agency had grown to 1,515 employees and a budget of $8,594,608.  Dr. Aycock had a lot to say to us today about the relationship between health and the environment:
	State Board of Health. Eighty-eighth Annual Report of the State Board of Health of South Carolina for the Fiscal Year 1967 to the Legislature of South Carolina. Columbia, SC: State printer, 1968.